Getting a learner’s attention is a holy grail among instructional designers and learning professionals. Attention, after all, is key to controlling the amount of time necessary to maintain information in “working memory.” In short, attention directs the outcome of learning.

It’s easy to create eLearning content. But to create an eLearning course that resonates with your learners? That’s not easy. It’s a difficult job for eLearning professionals to master but it’s worth it. Why? Because it’s the only kind of content that keeps people reading, from start to finish. It’s the only kind that elevates your learning program from ordinary to monumental.

eLearning and social media are not so different at all. Attention, after all, is the currency of social media—Facebook especially.

It's more than just creating attractive and interactive eLearning courses. It's about tapping into the experiences and emotions of your learners. It's about the images, the fonts and the words you carefully chose. About where and how you place content on the screen. About making it effective for your audience to absorb the most. About focusing less on how you can showcase your content, and more on how you can shape your audience's behavior. It's about all these things and so much more. That's why we've collected a list of inspirational and highly informative Slideshare presentations that will definitely help you turn create more emotional and engaging learning journeys. After seeing these insightful presentations you'll walk away with new ideas and new techniques.

Usability, along with utility and desirability, unlocks the key to effective eLearning courses. By following these three essential principles, course developers are able to create great learning experiences for learners of all types.

Learning isn’t merely cerebral. It’s emotional, too. Researchers, in fact, have confirmed how emotions affect mental processes. They finally found the missing piece of the learning puzzle and even encouraged instructional designers to include positive emotions as an important learning factor.

Effective eLearning courses don't happen by magic. They come out of purposeful, thoughtful and learner-focused design.

Effective learning doesn’t require expensive technology and elaborated training sessions. It doesn’t even demand the impossible from you, the course developer. But it does call for a change in mindset.