6 Critical Factors that Affect How People Learn
A lot of research actually goes into a well-designed eLearning course. And like it or not, instructional designers have to dig deep into the psychology of learners, ...
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10 Habits of Successful eLearning Designers
Whether you’re fresh out of school or a seasoned commander of an eLearning design team, you need to make sure your design habits are helping you thrive. In fact, one of ...
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A Template to Carry Out an eLearning Audience Analysis
Understanding the target audience is one of the cardinal rules of effective eLearning development. Knowing your learners helps you to shape your message in a way that's ...
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Attention-Grabbing eLearning Design: 5 Techniques You Should Try
Unless you have a phenomenal photographic memory, chances are you struggle to remember things and wonder how you can make information stick better. The answer? PAY ...
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5 eLearning Design Mistakes That Can Ruin a Good First Impression
10 Seconds. About the time it takes to check your phone “real quick” is all the time you have to make a first impression. This goes for your eLearning course too. People ...
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Why Reading on Mobile is Different (And What Course Designers Can Do About It)
If you are a trainer, an HR manager, or an online course designer, you know it is now time to design and develop courses for mobile users. With high-end smartphones that ...
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Designing for Motivation: Three Theories eLearning Designers Can Use
Motivation. The word is bandied about too much these days. An entire body of literature has sprung up around it. There are coaches who teach people how to cultivate ...
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5 Rules for Creating Relevant and Fluff-free Courses
We, instructional designers, know the feeling. We take copious notes when we interview the SME, and when we return to our desks, we are at a loss wondering what ...
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Conquering Content Curation: Best Practices for Instructional Designers
With the impressive array of content available from online sources and beyond, it’s no longer necessary to create everything from scratch. It’s also not feasible to do ...
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The Art of Simplification in eLearning Design
eLearning courses are designed to provide students with helpful information and not to bombard them with irrelevant and unnecessary pieces of content. What many ...
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Making the Most of Visuals in eLearning: 9 Tips and 5 Examples
According to a report by HubSpot, posts and tweets containing colored images increase viewers’ willingness to read by a whopping 80 percent! Other research revealed ...
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Understand These 10 Principles of Good Design Before You Start Your Next eLearning Project
A good-looking eLearning course is not a guarantee of its instructional effectiveness. Think of all those magazines with glossy covers that you flip over expectantly ...
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