Adult learners bring a diverse range of backgrounds, challenges and expectations to an eLearning course. They’re often busy professionals with a wealth of life experience. And if you respect that as a tutor, you’ve taken a...
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Know your Audience! A smart guide for analyzing your learners’ needs
Let’s set the stage: you’ve got an idea for a fantastic course. You’ve storyboarded it, created your outlines and are ready to crank up the production and let it roll. You’re sure that the learners are going to love...
What Makes The Makers Different? The 4 Attributes of eLearning Professionals
Instructional designers are usually underestimated in terms of the value they bring to a course. Just like a teacher who leaves an everlasting impact on students, instructional designers teach and help learners grow in the same...
New employee orientation: How to successfully onboard a new hire to your company
Can you remember the day you started at a new school? Do you recall the feeling of anticipation, the nerves, the worries? Little did you know that it was just a practice run for your working life and the first day you walk...
Top 3 Collaboration Activities for your eLearning Course
Educational technology tools have enabled multiple channels of collaboration within the online learning environment. However, these tools are futile if the course facilitator or trainer doesn’t know how to use them or even...
How not to micromanage your learning and talent development team
If management means doing the right things, and leadership means doing things right, micromanaging means believing you are doing both, while you’re actually doing neither. For those not familiar with the term, micromanaging is...
Must-have skills for User Experience (UX) design in eLearning
The hype about User Experience (UX) design skills is not at all exaggerated. The good news is that anyone with eLearning development skills can train to improve their UX strategies. UX designers have a deeper understanding of...
6 Features of Learning Objects
Learning objects (LOs) are digital entities that are authentic and based on real-world events. They are integrated within an eLearning course, in response and direct correlation to the learning objectives. They help elaborate the...
How to make new hire onboarding easy with an LMS
The human brain is hardwired to hate uncertainty. At those times, it makes us feel stressed. And the thing about stressed employees is that they’re less productive, more confrontational, and likely to get sick. Of course, this...
3 Methods of Reflective Practice in an eLearning Environment
Reflective practice has still not received the prestigious position it deserves in an eLearning environment. Writing is the primary mode of communication in an eLearning environment. Writing about recently learned material...