by Roger Courville
Synchronous e-Learning, better known as Webinars, is increasingly popular, yet many traditional classroom trainers are reluctant to try it. This the first in a series of three columns that will help you understand the basics you must know in order to get started!
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by Irene Boland
While many e-Learning practitioners have been interested in virtual worlds as venues for learning, solid research and evidence of return on the investment have been hard to come by. An investigator not only shows that virtual worlds work for learning, she also shows you how to go about adapting the traditional instructional development model to this environment!
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by Bill Brandon
When the economy takes a turn for the worse, all organizations tighten their belts and adjust their priorities. This includes e-Learning activities. While the situation is serious, there are many things that managers can do to ensure that online learning supports corporate strategy and direction in a recession. Here are some of the things you should be thinking about.
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by Michael Sunnarborg
Learning happens in the mind of the learner – not in the mind of the designer, teacher, or facilitator. Our job is to make e-Learning real, and to find ways to help learners “connect.” Here are four great tips that will help you do exactly that!
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by Darlene Christopher
Effective use of polls during synchronous e-Learning events can increase participant engagement, help facilitator performance, and raise learning levels. This is a quick primer of best polling practices that will pay off the effort you put into designing and using these quick surveys!
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by Michael Sunnarborg
Instructor-led training (ILT) has been around for thousands of years — and it’s showing its age. Fortunately, new modalities and the blending process offer designers a new range of flexibility and options that will keep learners engaged. Here are four tips to give ILT a real shot in the arm!
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by Jason Shaeffer
Many readers use synchronous e-Learning tools to deliver instruction live and online. However, there are many other uses for these tools in education and in corporate settings. This article relates the success of one particular tool, and offers a number of best practices that you will be able to put to work in creating and delivering effective, competitive e-Learning.
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by Jacqueline Beck
Everything changes, including software. In this case, Adobe released Version 7 of its Web conferencing and training solution. Here is a guided tour through the changes and improvements to Acrobat Connect Pro in the new (May, 2008) version.
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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.
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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.
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