by Bill Brandon
E-Learning is only one element in the broad field of human performance improvement. There are many other factors that affect business results, and almost all of them affect employee engagement. This is a book that will help you find the key to unlocking engagement in your organization, as a complement to learning.
by Kathy Napierala
How can your internal learning teams provide extra value to your company and customers when the company is undergoing a game-changing shift in its fortunes? The answer is an early analysis of how the changing landscape will affect customers. This article offers four rules for responding to major change, and a worksheet for planning the best response.
by Ray Miller
Project management for e-Learning presents a special set of challenges that the usual schedules and plans do not cover. Here is a set of tips that address everything from the right questions to ask, to dealing with style sheets and page templates. This short but powerful article will help you on every project!
by Cyrelle Gerson
Identifying an e-Learning strategy that matches an appropriate delivery method to the learners can be a very large challenge. Not only does the strategy have to take hardware, infrastructure, and operating systems into account, it must also consider the goals of the learners, the size of the learner group, and their availability.
by Marc Gamble
"You can't tell a book by its cover," goes the old saying. Can you tell good e-Learning from the vendor's Web site or a vendor demo? Probably not. An author with many years of experience as a learning architect gives you the tools you need to identify quality e-Learning products (both synchronous and asynchronous) and a process that will take you smoothly through the evaluation itself.
by Evelyn Jackson
Any e-Learning organization should spend time and effort to identify ways to improve the service it provides to its customers. However, this is often easier said than done, especially when the organization outsources design and development. In this article, you will find a blueprint for the process that an internal Microsoft group used to deal with these issues.
by Mary Carpenter
Many training groups are facing the challenge of moving their instruction from classroom to online or blended formats. Imagine the challenge of being the person who, single-handedly, must lead the transition, design the instruction, manage the LMS, and facilitate change management efforts involved in transforming a very conservative sales training approach to a very streamlined, efficient model!
by Greg Kearsley
Many e-Learning professionals find themselves working single-handed. Though the challenges to being a Department of One can be daunting, there are solutions that many solo practitioners use successfully. Whether your issue is budget, lack of help or cooperation, not enough time, or just nobody to talk to, this article is full of ideas you can use right away!
by Eric Sauve
Building an effective Community of Practice (CoP) can be a powerful addition to your organization’s learning strategy, especially for informal transfer of knowledge. Here’s a useful summary of CoPs: what are they, why they matter, and how to use them.
by Sandra West
This article is a final report and recommendations from a faculty committee. It is part case study, part model. The report provides a succinct picture of successful strategies for incenting faculty and staff, creating development guidelines, and providing online course marketing. We hope you will find this document useful in guiding your own efforts, regardless of organization type.

