Bullets in eLearning: Friend or Foe?
OMG! Did you just shoot the learner? What did you do? Did you misfire a bullet? Or did you pump in too many bullets? Be careful. The bullet is a powerful weapon. You ...
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8 Signs You Were Meant to Be An E-Learning Designer
Whether you’re an aspiring eLearning designer or a seasoned pro with years of experience, there are some key characteristics that predispose people to succeed at this ...
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Improve Learner Engagement by Using Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions
What do you remember more vividly? The steps of installing a piece of new software on your computer or the episodes from your favorite TV drama? Human beings are more ...
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4 Proven Ways to Make Your eLearning Courses Wow-Worthy
Remember those whodunits or the comic books from your school days that you stayed up late to finish? Or those old movies that stirred you so much that you still can't ...
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Create Life-Long Learners with Experiential eLearning
Knowledge vs Experience You may be a wizard with numbers, but what good is your knowledge if you cannot number-crunch your way through the mortgage documents? What good ...
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A 5 Step-Plan to Create Your Own Scenario-based eLearning Course
Fairy tales do a better job of teaching kids the values of honesty and hard work than all the dressing-down you may administer or the sermons you deliver. Kids learn ...
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Four Questions You Should Ask to Help You Think Like a Learner
Creating an eLearning course is a creative process. As an instructional designer, you need to be come up with designs and ideas that wow your audience. But in trying to ...
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Bringing Sexy Back to Your Compliance eLearning Courses
I was at LinkedIn when I came across this post by Paul W., Managing Director at Wright Solutions: “People hate compliance training, they don’t remember it and they don’t ...
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31 eLearning Lessons from 2014 to Guide You in 2015
The year is about to end, and people around seem to have gone into a nostalgic mood. Websites are fondly remembering what took place in the year gone by—trends that ...
Read more →Keep eLearning Readable or Don’t Bother Using Text at All
Recently, we found some powerful words by Carrie Cousins which made us think on how they apply to eLearning: "Design for readability or don’t bother using text at all. ...
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Instructional Designers: How to Pick Your SME's Brain in an Interview
INTRODUCTION: You may be an eLearning professional, but the subject matter expert or the SME actually flags off your course by providing the all-important content for ...
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Use the Psychology of Surprise to Grab Your Learner’s Attention
Every learner wants to believe that their teacher is an expert who can give them knowledge they did not know. Realistically, that isn’t enough to keep the learner on ...
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