by Judy Unrein
Does your choice of authoring software forever determine the quality of the e-Learning you create? Must rapid tools produce only cookie-cutter content? What makes the real difference in quality? The answer is — you, the designer. Here is the way to change your design habits.
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by Marian Abernathy
The eLearning Global Giveback Competition provides the e-Learning community with an opportunity to help change the world. Here’s how you, your organization, and International non- profits in relief, development, conservation, and social justice can participate.
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by Brian Lee
Online education and training has applications far beyond the students and employees who are the traditional focus of e-Learning. An increasingly important use is in the skilling of the unemployed, the disadvantaged, and the recently incarcerated. Here’s a spotlight on one such application, Metrix Learning.
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by Mary Arnold
It’s a simple fact: In this always-connected age, learners multi-task. It’s true for learners in the classroom, and it’s even truer for learners engaged in asynchronous e-Learning. You won’t be able to stop them, but here’s how to design instruction that takes multi-tasking into account.
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by Bill Brandon
The eLearning Guild and LINGOs, co-sponsors of the second annual eLearning Global Giveback competition, have announced the ten finalists in two competition categories: Individual or Team of Developers, and Corporate Developer.
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by Learning Solutions Staff
Educators would like to use tablets and handheld devices in their classrooms, but there are serious concerns about cost, security, distraction, and student safety. Brainchild Corp. has launched a new Android tablet eBook reader that addresses these issues.
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by Mary Arnold
Being familiar with video, as a lifelong consumer of it, does not guarantee that we know how to produce it. Instructional designers should learn to think like a director, and to look at the story from the point of view of the audience. Here are some pointers to get you started.
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by Patti Shank
Are you just beginning to learn how to author e-Learning? This column is meant for you! Patti Shank serves up some tool-independent and tool-specific tips in this series that will help you work better and faster, and develop a better product. This month, Patti shows you four tips for avoiding cognitive overload.
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by Bill Brandon
The New Year is underway with new acquisitions of e-Learning-related companies. Two important changes to the players took place in the first week of 2011.
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by Carmen Taran
When we move learning from one medium to another, it is tempting to do it the easy way: scrape the old content and dump it into the new format. Unfortunately, this creates more problems than it solves, especially in the interface. Here are the five questions to ask, with illustrated answers.
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