eLearning Archives - Page 18 of 19

Apr 2, 2015 | Compliance Training, eLearning

5 Tips Ensuring Employees Complete eLearning Courses

So you’ve brought in a state of the art learning management system, and you have a team of instructional designers cranking out the content. But your staff aren’t motivated to take the courses and are only engaging after a string of forceful emails containing threats or bribes. Hardly a conducive... more

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Apr 1, 2015 | eLearning

6 Tips To Successfully Carry Out An Online Training Needs Assessment

Looking for tips on how to successfully carry out an effective online training needs assessment? In this article, I’ll offer advice on how to conduct a thorough assessment that will help you develop a winning online training strategy for your employees. How To Successfully Carry Out an Online Training Needs... more

Mar 4, 2015 | eLearning

You’ve Been Doing Your eLearning Research All Wrong!

With over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year, it’s no surprise that Google is a great resource for your research needs. But what if I told you that MOST of you aren’t doing it right? And what do I mean by not doing it right? Advanced Search Functions for... more

Feb 17, 2015 | Course Design, Customer Training, eLearning, Instructional Design, Training Management

5 Training Design Patterns to Kickstart Your LMS

After solving one corporate training problem, it’s only natural that you will learn from that experience. When a similar problem is presented, you will apply the knowledge from your prior experience and most likely develop a similar solution: Keeping all the good parts, and throwing out the bad. Your final... more

Feb 11, 2015 | Course Content, eLearning

6 Tips To Create Better eLearning Content

As more organizations turn to online instruction to train their employees and customers, more administrators and other leaders are finding themselves in the position of having to create a lot of course content. These leaders must turn their presentations, lectures, on-the-job training and years of experience into self-contained lessons that... more

Jan 20, 2015 | eLearning, Instructional Design

Meet Will Thalheimer: Practical Application of Learning Research

Remember playing the telephone game as a kid? Or perhaps you played it recently at a conference or leadership workshop? It’s the game where someone whispers a story to the person next to them and then that person attempts to tell the same story to the person next to them, and so... more

Jan 5, 2015 | eLearning

How to Choose the Right Learning Management System for Your Company

Making the decision to invest in a learning management system (LMS) is an exciting time for any training department. As you are doing your research, you have likely noticed that companies either love, or loathe their LMS. Clearly, you want to choose one that your company will love. How choose the... more

Jan 4, 2015 | eLearning

A Few Benefits of eLearning?

Now that companies, government agencies, and educational institutions are talking about eLearning as commonplace, it’s hard not to question if this is just a current trend or if there are real advantages to this training method. eLearning is simply defined as learning that takes place using electronic means. Typically this... more

Dec 17, 2014 | eLearning

Tips on Creating Effective Assessments

Assessment is a necessary part of any learning experience and potentially a great tool for teachers and learners. Good assessments let learners know how well they’ve mastered the material, show teachers or coaches how effective their instruction has been, and provide important data that can be used in tweaking current... more