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Making the First Impression Count in eLearning [Cheat Sheet]
eLearning professionals are often over-confident about a course’s ability to capture an audience’s attention and engage users with its content. By conducting a simple ...
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10 Types of Learners You Can Run Into When Imparting Online Training
The most challenging aspect of imparting effective online training is targeting the many learners taking the same program. Understanding the different types of learners, ...
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If You're Designing eLearning for Adults Take Advantage of These 4 Tactics
Most of adult learning strategies are based on the idea that adults learn differently from non-adults. The term that often comes up is “androgogy,” which Malcolm Knowles ...
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Helpful Tools, Ideas and Templates for the Busy eLearning Designer
Working in eLearning design can be overwhelming; eLearning designers spend many hours struggling to come up with the best possible design. It may seem like adding more ...
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Mobile Learning: A Designer’s Guide to Fighting Learner Distraction
One of the biggest issues in eLearning is distractions. The brain is constantly bombarded with stray thoughts even when users exert great self-control. The problem is ...
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Designing eLearning to Maximize the Working Memory
The brain is a complicated machine, capable of creating extraordinary works of art, solving complex problems, and feeling the deepest of emotions. At the same time, our ...
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Being Pretty Isn’t Enough: Using the 5 Cs for eLearning Visuals
Although infographics, charts, illustrations, and other visuals for eLearning will never replace quality content, they can often do a better job at explaining content ...
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Studies Confirm the Power of Visuals to Engage Your Audience in eLearning
We are now in the age of visual information where visual content plays a role in every part of life. As 65 percent of the population are visual learners, graphics are ...
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How Instructional Designers Can Cope with Continuous Partial Attention in "The Age of Distraction"
The current era is often referred to as the Age of Information; however, it could just as easily be called the Age of Distraction or the Age of Interruption as, although ...
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The Science of Attention (And Why eLearning Professionals Should Care)
Paying attention is a task people take for granted; they rarely stop to think about the complex neurocognitive processes involved. However, it is an important topic for ...
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3 Key Concepts That Will Help You Understand Learning in the Digital Age
Learning is evolving—in large part due to the Internet. Now you may already know about this. It's a fact you can't miss thanks to the proliferation of mobile educational ...
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How the Brain Learns—A Super Simple Explanation for eLearning Professionals
In his book, The Art of Changing the Brain, Dr. James Zull , notably suggested how David Kolb's famous four-phase model of the learning cycle can be mapped into four ...
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