Evaluating your eLearning course by the toughest judges – your learners, is the cornerstone of eLearning development. Receiving feedback from your learners enables you, the instructional designer, to improve your course. Since...
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Evaluating Your eLearning
So, your new eLearning course is ready to be launched and you are all excited about the prospects of “immensely” pleased stakeholders in your organization. You know you have integrated the complete bells and whistles of an...
Interviewing Potential Online Facilitators
Hiring an online instructor or a facilitator is one of the most significant decisions you may make for your newly launched course. Be wary of face-to-face instructors eager to teach your online courses. Online teaching is not the...
The stages of eLearning content development
The most common question I hear as an eLearning Coordinator is this: “Can we have this via eLearning?” It’s my moment. I take my time, pretending I’m thinking it through, and after shaking my head, I reply: “Yes, just...
Action Mapping for ELearning
Ever wondered why the best laid plans for eLearning go awry? Why the human resources managers are unhappy and why the employees fail to perform? This is despite the good scores they achieve in your eLearning courses. Sure enough...
The Power of What Others are Doing
Staring at the blank screen or sheet of paper is every creative’s nightmare. E-learning professionals are not far from writers and designers in this sense, as in most cases they need to start from scratch and build a program...
Building an e-Learning Course: Content Strategies and Considerations
There’s a saying in the real estate industry that the three most important aspects of a real estate property is “location, location, location”. In e-learning those three aspects would be “content, content...
The Power of Simplicity
More is better, bigger is better, shinier is better. Not necessarily when it comes to visual aesthetics in human-computer interactions. Imagine opening a website looking for something specific, when all at once banners and pop-up...
10 Graphic Design tips for e-learning educators
You deployed the most capable LMS platform (*cough* eFront *cough*). You have written the finest course material, crafted the best exercises, and organized them to perfection. You are finally ready to take your live, but could...
Adapting elearning programs cross-culturally
Culture determines not only how one learns and what one learns but also what one perceives as important to learn – and the effects of culture on learners’ experiences in elearning can be profound. Culture affects...