What does talent mean? Is it something that you innately have, or is it something you can cultivate? Identifying talented individuals within a company is important because organizations need them to face everyday business challenges and remain competitive.
eLearning’s basic goal is not only to reduce the cost of training, but also to generate business results and since in the most cases there is no face-to-face interaction, what we have is a lot of content. By wisely using the content, we will be able to measure effectiveness and therefore get a ROI. There are basically 5 steps we need to follow in order to ensure the effectiveness of our eLearning content.
There are a lot of articles that say "here are the most important things in designing elearning". But I think this one really boils it down to the essentials: Challenge, Engagement, Personalization, Control, Collaboration, and Relevance.
Gamification is a powerful tool to engage learners, whether customers or employees, to change behaviors, develop skills or drive innovation. When a course is “gamified” correctly, itnot only improves user engagement but also lowers cost, and makes implementation easier.
Too few people realise how important sleep is! Sleep improves recall in learning, but it's only been in the last decade that research has illuminated the fact that sleep is necessary for learning. Sleep is so important that we recommend you cover it with your students as a topic as a precursor to any topic!
Don't make your audience suffer through low quality slides when giving a presentation! Use these resources to make your slides stand out. These principles will also work for designing great E-Learning content!
Use Google forms to create quizzes! You do need to log in to Google in order to do this. Makes a spreadsheet of answers, time stamps when they took it, and other stuff.
Ok, I admit, the title grabbed my attention. But there is also a really useful list of tools, most of them free, that can be used when creating an online course.