In layman’s terms, cloud computing is the technology which allows people like you and I to access an online service or product which resides on the internet. Instead of it being housed in a hard drive you have in your...
Category - eLearning
Vote for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013
Below is an extract from the original post on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies blog Vote for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 The annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list has become very popular. The...
Synchronous vs asynchronous elearning
In today’s elearning environment the type of learning that takes place is generally divided into one of two categories: synchronous and asynchronous. Both strategies have their own pros and cons, and the technique that is...
A brief history of elearning (infographic)
The term “elearning” has only been in existence since 1999, when the word was first utilized at a CBT systems seminar. Other words also began to spring up in search of an accurate description such as “online learning” and...
eFront: a usable LMS
Recently Wyver Solutions Ltd. reviewed eFront LMS. The following article has been reposted from the Wyver Solutions blog. The original article may be found here. For straightforward, content-based online learning eFront is...
10 eLearning buzzwords you need to know!
In this post we’ve put together short descriptions of the top 10 buzzwords in eLearning at the moment: Tin Can, Social Learning, Gamification, mLearning, Tablet learning, Rapid eLearning, Microlearning, Personalization...
Designing learning for millennials
“Millennials” is the corporate training buzzword we’ve been hearing a lot lately. According to PwC, by 2016, 80 percent of the workforce will be made up of millennials – the generation of people born between 1981 and...
5 things beyond open source eFront
We recently put together a list of the coolest features (and the all-important ‘6th element’) in commercial editions of eFront. From specialized reports to TinCan which offers the freedom to learn through more...
Setting up full-text search inside eFront
With version 3.6.12 users of the eFront Enterprise Edition have a very powerful tool in their hands – a Xapian-based file indexer that allows for searching through files’ contents. However, setting up the file indexer to...
Top Tools for Online Teaching
Recently Top5 Online colleges.org published a list of the 99 Top Tools For Online Teaching, including eFront. The list includes some of our favorite resources too so heres an extract of the article. Teaching Tools &...