Most instructional designers believe that their job ends with the launch of the eLearning program. While the content of your course determines its quality, the planning efforts needed to implement the course determine its...
Are Quizzes Really That Telling? – Assessing eLearning Assessments
Multiple choice quizzes – often the norm for eLearning course assessments, right? Perhaps not in all cases, but I’m sure that most of you reading this will acknowledge that quizzes are a widely adopted strategy when it comes...
How to Create an eLearning Organization Business Model
With most economies quickly moving towards knowledge-resourced survival strategies, eLearning is the most sought-after knowledge management pedagogy. If you are one of those innovators, who favor continuous training and want to...
Individual and Team-based Critical Thinking Skills in the eLearning Environment
You may have a brilliant course that attracts many learners and eventually these learners score well. But, do their managers give you equivalent reviews? Are your learners applying their learning in the performance context? This...
Graphic Design for eLearning Part 2 – Space
Space is the second element in our definition of graphic design. It refers both to the placement of elements in relation to each other, and to the gaps between them, where there are, to all intents and purposes. Empty space...
Graphic Design for eLearning: Part 1
Graphic design is a process of visual communication using elements such as type, space, images and colour. All of these are important in producing eLearning materials, so let’s look at them each in turn. Content is...
eLearning for the aviation industry with eFront
Where would we be without aviation? In far fewer places, and we’d get there much slower, that’s for sure. There would be no mass tourism industry, a much hampered global trade, and, one would imagine, no duty free...
Playing with eFront’s 4.3 Gamification Engine
Gamification is not all fun and games. Or rather it is, but it’s also a serious business feature that can increase engagement, learner retention and course completion rates, translating to happy users and a nice, big...
Site Builder on eFront 4.3: A familiar, brand new feature!
We’ve built eFront from scratch with a revamped architecture and the latest web technologies to showcase our vision for how a modern eLearning platform should be. Now, after eFront has proved itself in the market as a...
4 Ways to Implement a Competency Based Training Program
When adults join a training program, they bring with them two elements: they have varying levels of knowledge and they learn at varying paces. Competency-based training programs recognize these differences and match the training...