With more people telecommuting these days, it only makes sense that teachers and scholars would do the same through student-directed learning. Perhaps you have seen recent advertising campaigns pointing at home-schooling...
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Escaping boredom in your online courses
If you’re like most people, when you remember your school or university days, you’ll agree than the biggest obstacle in getting good grades was not some innate learning deficiency or a lack of skills in some...
6 tips for creating great e-learning content
Whether you are creating e-learning content for an educational institution, an organization, internet users or an enterprise, you’re still essentially being an educator. The emphasis in e-learning should always be placed in...
The death of the functionality matrices
Functionality matrices. If you work in enterprise and evaluate software for purchasing you can’t miss them. I’m talking about those ubiquitous spreadsheet like grids that list products on one dimension and features on the...
A splash of color for your e-learning content
In this ongoing series of posts, kickstarted with our “10 Graphic Design tips for e-learning educators”, we try to provide you with the required know-how for improving the look and feel of your e-learning content. In...
Typography for e-learning content design
In our last post, “10 Graphic Design tips for e-learning educators”, we provided a few essential guidelines for improving the look and feel of your e-learning content. Such a list, of course, can only offer a basic...
Essential LMS features to support Instructor Led Courses
One of the most significant benefits of eLearning is that it’s versatile. Utilizing an LMS can allow you to not only train employees remotely and offer online quickly and conveniently, but it can also be an ideal support...
Growth of online learning
In recent years, online learning has exponentially increased in popularity. Technological innovations have enabled people of all ages to learn from a distance and by utilizing a variety of different mediums; from video tutorials...
Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research
With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of...
Key points in keeping customers happy with online sales
In the age of the internet, you can not overlook the opportunity presented by incorporating the internet as a sales channel to drive growth and sales for your business. However, selling online is tricky and one of the main...