Effective eLearning, like a good sales presentation, involves persuasion, engagement, and motivation. If you can keep learners interested, get their buy-in, and make sure they’ve got all the relevant information at the end of it all, then you can be sure that your eLearning is going to be a great success.
It doesn’t matter what tool you use – whether it’s a bespoke eLearning authoring tool (like Articulate Storyline) or something more rudimentary (like PowerPoint), we’ve collated some really useful tips and best practices for all developers and content creators. Browse the articles from BrightCarbon’s eager eLearning beavers to discover how to create effective eLearning content, right from writing your learning objectives, all the way through to effective UX and graphic design.
Want to build some interactivity into your PowerPoint slides? Here are two easy entry-level ways that you can turn your PowerPoint slides into dynamic and interactive material for eLearning.
Our comprehensive guide to handling legacy Flash eLearning content has everything you need to be able to choose what to do with your content, plus tonnes of tips to help you rapidly republish or recreate your courses!
Webinars, videos and eLearning are excellent ways to push your content out to a wider audience. It’s really important, therefore, that the content we send out is engaging, and your script is going to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Here are five best practices to create compelling scripts.
Articulate Storyline 360 is a great tool for producing interactive eLearning content. A particularly useful feature allows you to import your pre-designed slides, so that you can convert PowerPoint to Storyline and turn your presentations into beautiful eLearning, saving you time and effort. We’ve put together our top five tips for converting PowerPoint slides to Storyline.
Feedback is a key part of all classroom learning. It’s the absolute best way to measure if your students have understood something or not. But online learning is different, you can’t look around your classroom to see if your students are with you, and you can’t adapt your learning as you go according to the level of understanding in the room, so what's the answer?
Clark Quinn has made a career out of aligning corporate and organizational goals with learning science and computer science. He kindly agreed to let me pick his brain and find out what led him down the path to melding together technology and education disciplines.
eLearning is great - it allows businesses to educate entire workforces at a pace, time, and location that suits them, while saving on costs associated with classroom-led training. Super! But what actually makes eLearning good or successful?
What can you do with an Interactive PDF? (and perhaps equally importantly, what can't you do). Working in an eLearning agency means we are always investigating different way to engage learners, share knowledge, and assess delegates. We're all so used to simply reading documents as PDFs that it's easy to forget that this versatile format has many more features and capabilities. Read on to learn more about what can be done with PDF from an eLearning agency that creates them...
When you’re teaching a skill, it’s important to assess learners’ progress. It’s a way of making sure you’re on the right track to meeting your learning objectives, and flags up anything that you might have missed. Whilst quizzes, tests, and other eLearning assessments are a tried and tested way to track improvement, learners start to suffer when eLearning is focused more on assessment than on the act of learning itself.
Even the most tedious tasks can be transformed from things we have to do into things we’re addicted to doing. it’s happening, it’s called gamification. Let's discuss.
When done well, eLearning can be a truly effective and engaging learning tool. An eLearning module that works for some learners, but leaves others unable to access the content, isn’t doing its job. This is why accessibility in eLearning is so important. Let's discuss...
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