eLearning

Jun 06, 2024

What is Multimodal Learning? Why You Should Use It In eLearning

Can you remember the last time you struggled to understand a concept because of how it was being explained? This could...

Jun 05, 2024

5 Benefits Of Self-Paced Learning

The average working professional is busy Mon-Friday, and for the ones who have a family, second job, or other...

May 15, 2024

Creating Effective eLearning Videos: Best Practices and Techniques

In an age where digital content is king, eLearning videos are a powerful educational tool. The visual appeal and...

Jun 27, 2023

Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) Guide & Best Practices

Say goodbye to the days of commuting to a physical space for training sessions, and say hello to an engaging learning...

May 31, 2023

Top 5 LMS Platforms for Blended Learning

Blended learning is an engaging way for students to learn with a mix of online and face-to-face education. This...

Dec 14, 2022

How To Turn Instructor-Led Training Into eLearning (Asynchronous)

While instructor-led training happens at the same time for everyone, eLearning happens asynchronously. With eLearning,...

Dec 09, 2022

SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Both SCORM and xAPI are content standards used to create eLearning courses. These eLearning protocols are important so...

Oct 27, 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Picking a SCORM-Compliant LMS

Imagine if there was a language that everyone in the world spoke and understood. All you would have to do is know this...

Oct 13, 2022

10 Must-Have LMS Reports For Managing Training

Would you invest $500,000 into the stock market only to cross your fingers that your investment makes money instead of...

Sep 23, 2022

Is it Better to Buy or Build Your Own eLearning Platform?

So you’ve decided that you need an eLearning platform but aren’t sure whether to work with an established eLearning...

Sep 14, 2022

How to Convert PowerPoint into an Interactive Online Course

According to Business Wire, the global eLearning market will have an annual growth rate of 15% from 2020-2026 and by...

Aug 09, 2022

6 Proven Tips to Organize Your eLearning Platform

Did you know that using a Learning Management System (LMS) to organize online courses can boost the engagement of your...

Jul 20, 2022

Best LMS For Teaching Courses Online

If you’re thinking about offering a self-hosted online course then you’ll undoubtedly come across the need for some...

Jul 14, 2022

A Better Alternative to Moodle LMS for Professional Training

There is a lot to consider when choosing between an open-source LMS like Moodle and a native cloud-based SaaS LMS like...

Jul 05, 2022

6 Tips for Creating Self-Paced Training Courses

If you’re not already conducting training online, or are struggling to do it effectively, then you’ve clicked on...

Jun 23, 2022

A Better Alternative to Thinkific LMS for Professional Training

Choosing a Learning Management System (LMS), or finding a better alternative to the LMS you’re currently using takes...

Mar 17, 2022

Distance Learning – What is it? How to Deliver It with an LMS

Traditionally, K-12 or college students would learn inside of a physical classroom. That was until schools began...

Feb 08, 2022

Choosing The Best LMS for Your Small-Medium Business

So the time has come, and your organization needs to improve its training and development programs. Your business’s...

Jan 07, 2022

SaaS LMS vs Self-Hosted LMS: Why SaaS for eLearning is Best

It seems like just yesterday laptops were still being made with cd rom drives, and flash drives were still the go-to...

Sep 23, 2021

5 Reasons Your Organization Needs An LMS

Did you know there’s a way you could onboard new employees, retrain current employees, sell eLearning courses to...

Feb 20, 2021

How to become a Learning & Development Manager

What is a Learning and Development Manager? A learning and development manager is responsible for keeping a...

Feb 15, 2021

6 Ways eLearning Will Enhance Your Customer Service Training

eLearning based customer service training resolves potential issues where staff get trained differently by different...

Feb 05, 2021

Instructional Videos In eLearning: Everything You Need To Know

A video is a video, you might have thought: how different can they be? As different as a feature length action film and...

Jan 12, 2021

Create Effective Class Evaluations: Example Forms & More

Why Post-Class Evaluations Are The Key To Growth Have you ever gotten one of those “how did we do?” surveys from...

Nov 26, 2020

Ultimate Guide to Customer Service eLearning

Obviously having a top-tier customer experience team should be high on the list of any business hoping to thrive in the...

Nov 15, 2020

A Guide to Using Training Videos in eLearning

Training videos are often the standard form of content in eLearning, but they are not all created equal. There is a...

Oct 26, 2020

Ultimate Guide to Lesson Plans: Example Formats & Plans

Unfortunately, many learning professionals don’t use lesson plans properly; as a result, they struggle to design...

Mar 09, 2020

Students Succeed with Efficient Note-Taking

It’s an age old adage: successful students are the hallmark of a successful teacher. The concepts taught are learned...

Nov 08, 2019

Earn +20% More Selling Employee Training Courses Direct to Companies

Like any other industries’ division of core customer audiences, online courses are split between sales to...

Oct 24, 2019

Why Branding Your eLearning Business Is About More Than Just Your Logo

Your company’s brand is both tangible and intangible. It includes such concrete things as your logo, website,...

Aug 30, 2019

Top 5 Tips for eLearning Platform Shopping (Save Both Time & Money!)

Are you an organization shopping for an eLearning platform? If that sounds like you, you most likely fit into one of...

Jul 25, 2019

Why Organizations need to add eLearning to Training Programs Today

Defined as the delivery of learning and training via digital resources —or online learning— e-learning benefits...

Jul 08, 2019

How Your Student's Attention Span Affects Your eLearning Business

A 2015 study by Microsoft of 2,000 survey participants and 112 individuals monitored via EEG in Canada found that since...

Jun 28, 2019

Top 10 Reasons Online Training Advances Employees & Your Bottom Line

Do you provide regular training to your employees? Have you examined the impact that employee training has not only on...

May 17, 2019

How to Write a Great RFP for Your eLearning Platform Search

The process of making a large purchase is generally not an enjoyable experience. Whether you’re buying a new house, a...

Apr 09, 2019

Keeping Track of Your Continuing Education Credits

Whether a lawyer, plumber, doctor or electrician, a growing number of careers require ongoing training through...

Feb 08, 2019

Do You Know what the ROI is of Your eLearning Platform?

Using the internet as their online school’s lifeline to deliver courses to students eLearning instructors are able to...

Jul 08, 2014

Using an Orientation Board for Your Online Classes

Create a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. If you have ever had experience with...

Jul 08, 2014

Anchoring the Lesson for Your Online Class

The finer aspects about creating a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. In the previous...

Jul 02, 2014

Plan For Online Class Mishaps: A Wrench in the Works – Part II

How to continue keeping your cool when things do not go as planned. The previous blog article, A Wrench in the Works...

Jul 02, 2014

Teaching Online & Content Mastery – A Wrench in the Works Part I

Find the best resources for teaching courses online, locating teaching aids, and developing online assessments. Discu...

Jun 25, 2014

Online Student Assessment: Be Fair, Meaningful, Effective and Useful

The previous article discussed the importance of understanding that effective assessment-development is critical for ...

Jun 25, 2014

Summative Assessment: A Score That Weighs On Both Teacher and Student

Much like a fiction novelist may begin with the climax and work the plot in reverse to establish character and settin...

Jun 25, 2014

Educational Assessment: Evaluate What Online Students Need to Master

Understanding the importance of planning student assessment design. In a previous article discussing assessments...

Jun 19, 2014

How to Teach Online Courses: Start By Being Human

Using comparative life-experience analogies to introduce students to new concepts. Arguably, one of the most...

Jun 19, 2014

Adjusting Your Online Teaching Strategy: Measure Student Success

Using formative assessments to fine-tune your approach while delivering course content. Expectedly, a natural...

Jun 19, 2014

Online Teaching Strategies Using Diagnostic Assessment… What?

Using diagnostic assessments to plan your approach when introducing new concepts. In the previous article Turning...

Jun 10, 2014

Different Learning Styles: eLearning for Multiple Intelligences

Creative use of multimedia-sourced teaching aids to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your client’s...

Jun 10, 2014

The Learning Pyramid and Different Teaching Strategies For eLearning

The medium really is the message, where teaching aids and assessments involving active learning can enhance content...

Jun 10, 2014

Designing an Online Course: Portion-Sized e-Learning

Delivering course content to your clients with stand-alone modules for self-paced distance learning. Previous...

Jun 07, 2014

How to Identify an Effective Online Teaching Strategy

This means that you have to determine how much they know and how much they don’t know. The manner of teaching will...

Jun 07, 2014

Keeping Online Lessons Interesting

Here are a few tips on what you can do as online educators to keep your students engaged and interested: The first...

Jun 05, 2014

Building Relationships with Students in Virtual Classrooms

What I perhaps forgot was that the students were just as nervous as me. This was perhaps exacerbated because I was...

Jun 01, 2014

Are You Using Badges as Micro-Credentials For Your Online Courses?

In the blog post linked to above, we talked about the benefits of verification from both the students’ and...

Jun 01, 2014

New Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials Validate Online Learning

However, with online education dramatically gaining in popularity, new methods of keeping track of credits and...

Apr 16, 2014

What to Look For in Learning Management System (LMS) Software

Learning Management Software is more formally known as a Learning Management System (LMS), but you’ll also hear the...

Apr 11, 2014

Online Classroom Management Strategies

Academy Of Mine recently chatted with Michael Linsin (see his website) about his book “The Classroom Management...

Mar 31, 2014

Online Course Development and Design Strategies

Hello Rosemary and thank you for chatting with us today. First of all, I really loved your book. You talk about many...

Mar 26, 2014

Gamification of Education: 260% increase in student activity

Gamification is the process of using game-like strategies and rules and applying them to the educational environment....

Mar 26, 2014

Proactive vs. Reactive Communication with Students Online

With proactive communication, the responsibility of initiating contact with a student in an online learning environment...

Feb 03, 2014

Best WordPress LMS Plugins

There are a few plugins you should consider if you’re thinking about using WordPress as the eLearning platform to...

Jan 07, 2014

Best Learning Management System: Deciding on an LMS

Learn what the best free and paid LMS options for your online course or membership site. Learn how to identify what y...