Even if you weren’t one of the 9.9 million people who tuned in for the premiere of Downton Abbey’s final season, there are probably similarities you could recognize from the eLearning world just from the characters’ personalities. What do we mean by that? Well, Downton Abbey is known for it’s cast of very different characters—ranging…
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How to Make eLearning Stick
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…
How to Simplify Technical Language in eLearning
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…
Lessons Learned on Mentoring From Rocky & Creed
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…
The Art of Pivoting & Overcoming “This is How We’ve Always Done Things” in eLearning
We’ve all heard the dreaded phrase, “But this is how we’ve always done things!” which is typically presented as a valid objection to implementing something new. It’s the #1 enemy of change. And with eLearning courses, we’ve found that this phrase often comes up within systems and process training, which means implementing a new process…
Memory and eLearning
You want to build a fantastic eLearning course that helps your learners become well-trained employees, right? Right. In order to do that, you need to be sure the material you’re teaching is memorable. Literally—it needs to be committed to a learner’s memory. So how can you create courses that your learners remember? Let’s look at…
What Marcus Lemonis of CNBC’s ‘The Profit’ Can Teach Us About Training
If you’ve never seen the CNBC TV show The Profit, here’s a quick summary: Serial entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis invests in struggling small businesses he believes in. He then works alongside the owner(s) to get the business back on its feet—with the hope of making money for both parties in the long run. But whenever Lemonis…
Going Green with eLearning
If energy-saving efforts are part of your organization’s objectives, then you should consider going green with eLearning. It’s common sense to look at reducing your carbon footprint by means of energy-saving equipment, but an area that often gets overlooked as a tie-in is that of training. Going green with eLearning not only helps your business…
Instructional Design’s Secret to Engaging Material: Tell Me, Show Me, & Let Me
When faced with a new set of material, an Instructional Designer has to ask the question, “How can I make this material interactive and engaging?” Why ask this question? Because research shows that interactive learning—that is, the learning focused around telling, showing, and letting the user get hands-on—is one of the most effective ways to…
Using Hi-Res Graphics and Photos in Graphic Design for eLearning
This post is part of an eight-part series on graphic design for eLearning. You can look for this series every other Thursday here on our blog (and sharpen your skills with each and every post.) With that said… We’ve talked before about graphic design as a whole for eLearning development, but today, we’re going to…