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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a learner was clicking a single mouse. The training was completed, and computers sat bare in hopes that a new eLearning course soon would be there. The employees were nestled all snug in their chairs, while visions of matching terms danced together in pairs….
It’s that time of year when we look back at the year to find the crème de la crème—the best, most interesting eLearning topics we wrote about in 2015. We’ve looked at the numbers and pulled out our 10 best blog posts of 2015 for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! Best Posts of 2015 Everything You…
You want your trainees to remember what your training course taught them, right? That’s kind of the main objective for any eLearning course—to get participants to retain information and then use what they’ve learned in their roles at work. But research tells us that people generally forget about 50% of what they learn after one…
Sometimes working in the eLearning field means re-working existing courses. Say a client comes to you with a course they’ve been using for years, and they want you to breathe some new life into it. Seems like no big deal, right? But when you take a look at the course, you realize that you’ve got…
Think of a storyboard for an eLearning course like a comic strip: Each frame tells a part of a larger story and moves the course along. Without a storyboard, your course can be all over the place. It would look a little something like this: Lesson 1! Irrelevant interactive game! Lesson 5! Pop quiz! Matching…
As someone who lives and breathes eLearning, you probably feel comfortable with terms like ‘Authoring Tool’ and ‘LMS.’ But when you go to a client or meet with executive leadership to explain what you’ll be doing when you design the eLearning course—you get some blank stares…and a lot of questions. The technical language means nothing…
In the newly released film Creed, Adonis (son of Rocky’s rival, Apollo Creed) begs Rocky to train him and teach him his boxing knowledge. He knows that he’s the one person who can get him to the performance level he needs to compete in the high-stakes professional boxing ring. In training, we know the importance…
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, and while we’re busy basting turkeys and flipping through Black Friday ads, we should all take a moment to be thankful for eLearning. Wait…you weren’t thinking being thankful for eLearning? That’s weird. eLearning provides a lot of wonderful benefits that we really should celebrate. Let’s look at a few specific…
Part Three: Managing the Process In part two of this series, we went over all of the many different people who bring a successful eLearning course to life. In our third and final piece, we’ll discuss the general progression that helps course development and execution happen smoothly and efficiently. Today’s focus: P = Process. Each…
Part Two: Managing People In part one of this series, we talked about the performance expectations that define the scope and general objectives for a successful eLearning project. Now we’re going to look at the many different experts that have to come together to make an effective and interactive training resource. Today’s focus: P =…