Instructional design can be demanding and challenging for any course creator. You’re tasked with creating engaging and effective learning experiences from start to finish, which is no small order. Fortunately, there are many tools (some of them free!) to help with the instructional design process. In this article, we share some of the best tools…
As a content creator, there are numerous ways to make money. With a little bit of know-how, some statistics to back up your pitch, and some outreach, you will be well on your way to earning more and creating relationships that will continue to pay off.
With the absence of face-to-face interaction, keeping learners motivated and engaged enough to finish is a challenge. Learn 4 psychological strategies that can help improve the learning experience and increase course completion rates.
Assigning your learners a research project for your course? Here’s how to help them find good sources.
Essays remain a powerful learning tool, if they are handled carefully.
Instructional designers can charge premium prices by adding “Just in Time” training development. When most people think about starting an online course business they think about creating elaborate courses with gamification elements, automation, communities and so forth. Done correctly this approach can result in a a high revenue, low cost business. But making money with…
For organizations interested in promoting employee growth, a mix of formal with informal education methods may be the key to success. Informal learning refers to the spontaneous, ad-hoc learning most of us engage in every day when we feed our curiosity or explore answers to questions provoked by our environment. For instance, we might feel…
Whether you are starting out with your online course business or have been established for years, you are missing out on an opportunity if you are not using YouTube. I have a confession to make: LearnDash was late to the “YouTube game.” Only just recently did we launch our official YouTube channel where we share…
It’s that time of year again! WordCamp U.S. is taking place in Nashville, will we see you there? Where: Nashville When: December 1st – 3rd Cost: $40 More Info: https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/ Every year at the beginning of December marks the annual WordCamp U.S. conference. The past two years it has been in Philadelphia and the event didn’t…
One of the biggest obstacles people face when creating an online course is actually creating the content. The process takes months, and it’s easy to underestimate the time it will take so it’s easy to “burn out”. Take into consideration that you also have to be actively marketing your program and the entire project can…
For many people the thought of using “games” in a classroom environment seems like it would be more of a distraction than anything else. I can recall times during grade school when we would have a classroom oriented game and things would get out of hand quickly. Some children would become way too competitive, others…
Instructional designers are tasked with more than creating an elearning course. They are expected to create a course that is effective. The content and the way that it is presented has to fulfill a set of objectives and in many cases elicit some form of measurable change. Because of this requirement instructional designers think about…
Blended learning can be extremely effective when implemented properly. Problem is, sometimes the full potential of blended learning isn’t always realized. There can be a variety of factors for this, but usually it has to do with execution. Programs often start with good intentions, but somewhere along the line they falter. The good news is…
Most organizations understand the inherent benefits of a robust learning program (both live training and elearning) , but they don’t always know how to create a culture that is conducive to such programs. A learning initiative without the proper implementation can do more damage than good as it will ultimately end up being a waste…
The Mozilla Open Badge Program is a digital program to recognize skills and achievements. The program is relatively new, being only a few years old, but is growing quickly due to our advancing technological world. For many years, organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and others used physical badges to display the skills and…
Education technology (EdTech) is evolving at an incredible pace. There are constantly new apps and programs being developed – all of which with their own unique benefit. For those of you who are new to the concept of EdTech, it is a pretty broad concept, covering the use of technology like tablets, apps, web tools,…
ELearning has been enjoying unprecedented growth in the last decade, and that growth is expected to accelerate for the foreseeable future. Analysts have estimated that elearning accounted for over $27 billion in 2009, and has risen to over $50 billion in 2014. These figures include money spent on self-paced online learning, which includes both packaged and custom…
The other day I came across an interesting quote by Benjamin Franklin on elearning. Perhaps you have heard it before, it goes as follows: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” You may claim that this quote has nothing to do with elearning, and in the…
Most people would probably assume that today social networking and education are now pretty interrelated. Social networking platforms are part of mainstream culture. As such, it just makes sense for education programs to adopt them as well another tool for teaching. In fact, one study reports that 96% of students in the U.S. who have internet…
Online education is surely on the rise. The cost effective approach to virtual learning environments just makes sense. The important thing to remember though is that online learning does not mean that the entire course content is located online. Traditional classroom settings can benefit by supplementing the course content by putting some of it into…
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