What are “strong questions”? Strong questions are the test questions that provoke recall and active synthesis of learning objectives. Not all eLearning developers are good writers though. Writing strong questions to...
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4 Ways to Make Your Audio In Your Courses Better
When it comes to creating audio for eLearning, there are a lot of factors to consider. There is the software to record your audio, the microphone and other hardware to capture your voice. And of course, your audio editing...
3 Strategies for Developing Original Work Activities
As with any eLearning program, the final exam or the summative assessment is an expected end. Before learners even register for a course, they are keenly interested in the nature of the final exam. Would it be an online LIVE...
Applying 7 Zen Principles In Online Training
You’d be amazed by how much a calm, harmonious, and balanced mindset can change your life. The same rule applies to your online training. In this article, I’ll share 7 Zen principles that every eLearning professional...
Online Onboarding Programs: How to use eLearning for employee onboarding
In the times of yore, when employees looked forward to a lifetime of employment in a company like General Motors and IBM, managers could afford to have their new hires “learn on the job”. After all what’s the...
How Companies Use Gamification To Motivate Their Employees
Gamification, the idea of using game-based techniques to increase engagement in a non-gaming activity, might have began as a novelty reserved for web 2.0 social startups, but is now an accepted part of the web in general and the...
Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning: Part 2
Following the first instalment of the Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning series, we will now focus on how the technological changes we’re undergoing can influence the eLearning designers. A few years ago, when...
Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning: Part 1
There’s a great deal of talk these days about how eLearning is moving off the desktop computer and onto a variety of mobile devices. The release of the iPhone in 2007, followed by the iPad three years later and a whole...
Rethinking Compliance Training in eLearning: Part 2
In the first part of this post, we looked at some of the problems associated with a lot of compliance training. It can be tedious, uninspiring and not particularly effective – it may satisfy a requirement to perform the...
The What and the How of a Job Aid
When deciding between an eLearning course and a job aid, industries need to know that job aids direct performance as the need-to-know arises. On the other hand, eLearning courses build performance capacity prior to the...