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Instructor-led Training

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 experience that brings everyone together, regardless of their location. With...

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Ultimate Guide to Picking a SCORM-Compliant LMS cover image

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...

10 Must-Have LMS Reports For Managing Training cover image

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...

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

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...

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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...

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

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...

6 Proven Tips to Organize Your eLearning Platform cover image

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...

Best LMS For Teaching Courses Online cover image

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...

A Better Alternative to Moodle LMS for Professional Training cover image

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...

6 Tips for Creating Self-Paced Training Courses cover image

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...

A Better Alternative to Thinkific LMS for Professional Training cover image

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...

5 Benefits Of Self-Paced Learning cover image

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...

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

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...

Choosing The Best LMS for Your Small-Medium Business cover image

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...

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

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...

5 Reasons Your Organization Needs An LMS cover image

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...

How to become a Learning & Development Manager cover image

How to become a Learning & Development Manager

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

6 Ways eLearning Will Enhance Your Customer Service Training cover image

6 Ways eLearning Will Enhance Your Customer Service Training

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

Instructional Videos In eLearning: Everything You Need To Know cover image

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...

Create Effective Class Evaluations: Example Forms & More cover image

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...

Ultimate Guide to Customer Service eLearning cover image

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...

A Guide to Using Training Videos in eLearning cover image

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...

Ultimate Guide to Lesson Plans: Example Formats & Plans cover image

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...

Students Succeed with Efficient Note-Taking cover image

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

Why Organizations need to add eLearning to Training Programs Today cover image

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...

How Your Student's Attention Span Affects Your eLearning Business cover image

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...

Top 10 Reasons Online Training Advances Employees & Your Bottom Line cover image

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...

How to Write a Great RFP for Your eLearning Platform Search cover image

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...

Keeping Track of Your Continuing Education Credits cover image

Keeping Track of Your Continuing Education Credits

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

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

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...

Using an Orientation Board for Your Online Classes cover image

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...

Anchoring the Lesson for Your Online Class cover image

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Educational Assessment: Evaluate What Online Students Need to Master cover image

Educational Assessment: Evaluate What Online Students Need to Master

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

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

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...

Adjusting Your Online Teaching Strategy: Measure Student Success cover image

Adjusting Your Online Teaching Strategy: Measure Student Success

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

How to Teach Online Courses: Start By Being Human cover image

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...

Online Teaching Strategies Using Diagnostic Assessment… What? cover image

Online Teaching Strategies Using Diagnostic Assessment… What?

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

Different Learning Styles: eLearning for Multiple Intelligences cover image

Different Learning Styles: eLearning for Multiple Intelligences

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

Designing an Online Course: Portion-Sized e-Learning cover image

Designing an Online Course: Portion-Sized e-Learning

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

The Learning Pyramid and Different Teaching Strategies For eLearning cover image

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...

Keeping Online Lessons Interesting cover image

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...

How to Identify an Effective Online Teaching Strategy cover image

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...

Building Relationships with Students in Virtual Classrooms cover image

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...

New Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials Validate Online Learning cover image

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Online Classroom Management Strategies cover image

Online Classroom Management Strategies

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

Online Course Development and Design Strategies cover image

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...

Proactive vs. Reactive Communication with Students Online cover image

Proactive vs. Reactive Communication with Students Online

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

Gamification of Education: 260% increase in student activity cover image

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....

Best WordPress LMS Plugins cover image

Best WordPress LMS Plugins

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

Best Learning Management System: Deciding on an LMS cover image

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...

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