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 Learning Solutions Staff
SimPL is a low-cost hosted Learning Management System (LMS) for delivering internally developed and vendor-provided online training, distance learning, and e-Learning content.
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by Joe Ganci
Would you like to shorten the time it takes for a learner to demonstrate expertise, especially if it isn’t expensive to do so? But how? Yukon Learning's product called Cameo provides one innovative approach.
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by Mike Dickinson
Designing compliance training can be a great challenge, on many levels. Blended learning, including classroom, games, online elements, and scenarios, is an excellent way to deal with this, but creating it is not necessarily simple or easy. Here is the story of how one (very small) training department backed into a highly effective solution over three years of effort.
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by Anne Derryberry
In the third major consolidation in the e-Learning market in 2010, solutions provider Kaplan IT Learning has acquired rapid e-Learning tool provider Atlantic Link, Inc.
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by Fareed Teja
Faculty and staff at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing (UBC SoN) worked together to create an open source e-Portfolio system for students in the BSN and Master of Nursing – Nurse Practitioner programs. The result is a perfect fit to these unique competency-based programs, one that also supports the students after graduation. Read about it here!
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by Greta Ballard
Defining your instructional outcomes in terms of competency models and proficiency scales can be the key to deciding on an instructional design. In fact, this also helps in deciding which tools to use. Here is a method and a decision table that will guide your critical choices, based on competency, proficiency, and instructional alternatives.
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by David Becker
Compliance training is a huge application area for e-Learning. Yet much of this training has its basis in reaction rather than a strategy based on risk assessment. There is a rational, measureable, and aligned approach to compliance training. Use it and reap benefits in better compliance, reduced costs, greater brand value, and increased revenue!
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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 Greg Kearsley
One of the traditional activities of labor unions has always been the professional education and skills development of their members. Unions face the same problems in training delivery as corporations, and e-Learning offers the same advantages to both. Unions elsewhere may be ahead in adopting e-Learning technology, but their counterparts in North America are offering some innovative solutions.
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