These are exciting times in the world of eLearning. Improvements on existing development tools and technologies and the emergence of new trends in eLearning mean upgrades and changes if your courseware is going to keep up. Take a look at what’s trending in eLearning and five big trends in eLearning.

Jill W.

Technology is changing, and learners are changing with it. Read on to take a look at what’s trending in eLearning and five big trends in eLearning.

Help Your L&D Program Evolve

Outsourcing learning content development can be a cost-effective way to get experienced learning specialists working for you. It can also be a headache, with all the downsides of working with an external organization and negotiating in a field you're not familiar with. So how can you make sure it works for you? Read on for five tips on how to get the best results when outsourcing your learning resource development.

Shauna Carson

Outsourcing learning content development can be a cost-effective way to get experienced learning specialists working for you. Read on for five tips on how to get the best results when outsourcing your learning resource development.

5 Tips for Outsourcing eLearning Content Development

There are many interesting courses and books that cover on the huge number of concerns that go into designing a learning program. This article focus on a list of four key considerations for developing content that is effective and relevant to your audience.

Sarah Flesher

Read on about four important points to consider when designing your learning content that will help make it relevant to your audience and give you the best bang for your buck.

Finding the Sweet Spot for your Learning Design

In a competency-based training program, standards are set and learners are provided with multiple types of support to ensure that those who are able to will meet the pre-set standards. This article is about how you can make CBT a part of your learning and development strategy.

In a competency-based training program, standards are set and learners are provided with multiple types of support to meet them. Read on to take a closer look at how you can make CBT a part of your learning and development strategy.

Make Competency-Based Training Part of Your L&D Strategy

The success of your LMS choice can rest on how well the implementation goes – how does SkillBuilder® LMS ensure this process goes as smoothly as possible? This blog post is dedicated to ensuring your set up process goes as smoothly as possible.

How SkillBuilder® LMS Makes Your Set Up a Snap

LMS users break down into two basic groups: Learners and Administrators. This article will discuss LMS administrators. It will briefly describe what LMS administrators do, the LMS functionalities they need to use and some tips on training an LMS administrator.

This article will discuss LMS administrators. I'll briefly describe what LMS administrators do, the LMS functionalities they need to use and some tips on training an LMS administrator.

Training Your People to Use Your LMS – Part 2: The Administrators

This article will look at some of the common training problems and possible solutions available.

It's disheartening to pour your efforts into training development and then to find that the training just isn't working. This article will take a look at some of the common problems that might be happening and see what possible solutions are available.

What to Do When Your Training Isn’t Working

This article will discuss eight features you need to reach your audience and make the most of the online learning format.

Online learning is versatile and cost-effective, but which of the many available features should you choose? Read on to look at eight features you need to reach your audience and make the most of the online learning format.

Features You Need for Effective Online Learning

This article will describe some of the barriers learners with these disabilities face. It will also provide you with six tips for designing eLearning that is accessible.

Read on about the three main types of impairments: vision loss, hearing loss and cognitive impairments, and some of the barriers learners with these disabilities face. This article will provide six tips for designing eLearning that is accessible.

Tips for Designing Accessible eLearning

This article will review the benefits and drawbacks of the ten top eLearning trends.

This article will outline some of the benefits and drawbacks of the ten top eLearning trends. It will also take a closer look at each of these trends and how they interact.

The Future of eLearning

Motivation is critical to learning. This article will identify some ways to enhance learner motivation with SkillBuilder.

Motivation matters, even when you're thinking about the software that will organize, administer and deliver your learning programs. Since technology plays a role in motivating learners, let's take a look at what SkillBuilder® offers.

Let SkillBuilder® Solve Your Motivation Problems

This article will explore the definition of soft skills and look at five ways to motivate people to develop them.

Read on to look at the definition of soft skills and five ways to motivate people to develop them.

Motivate People to Develop Soft Skills

Learners are looking for ways to streamline all aspects of their day. This article will explore how you can give learners the efficiency they crave.

Efficiency is the new holy grail, and learners are looking for ways to streamline all aspects of their day. This article will take a look at a few ways you can give learners the efficiency they crave.

Give your eLearning an Efficiency Makeover

Learning is such a great way to train your workforce. This article will take a focussed look at what you can offer to engage your learners.

You can encourage people to take a course with all the incentives you want, but if they aren't engaged with what you are offering, your training won't be a success. In this article, let's take a look at what you can do to avoid this.

Keep Your Learners Engaged in eLearning

This article will take a focussed look at different learning technologies a learning management system, specifically SkillBuilder® LMS, brings to the table.

In this article, I've identified a number of learning technologies SkillBuilder® LMS provides to their users.

SkillBuilder® LMS and Your Learning Ecosystem

This article identifies the uses, benefits and disadvantages of some learning technologies to help you select the tech that matches your learning ecosystem.

In this article, I've identified a number of learning technologies, their uses, benefits and disadvantages that will help you narrow down your search and select the tech that matches the objectives of your learning ecosystem.

What Tech Does Your Learning Ecosystem Need?

This article is about what a learning ecosystem is and why you should focus in on it in order to get your training program to where it needs to be.

Read on to learn exactly what your learning ecosystem is and why you should focus in on it in order to get your training program to where it needs to be.

Creating a Strong Learning Ecosystem

SkillBuilder® LMS delivers the training that fills training gaps. It helps find the gaps and targets learning interventions to the employees who need them.

Read on to find out how SkillBuilder® LMS delivers the training that fills training gaps, helping find the gaps and targeting learning interventions to the employees who need them.

Fix Your Training Gaps with SkillBuilder® LMS

Effective learner assessments should contribute to learner's success. Formative assessments tell learners where they stand and where they need to go next.

This article will take a look at the learner role in corporate training, and how they can be used to give learners the information they need to succeed.

Reap the Benefits of Formative Assessments in Your Training Program

Delivering training is not a mission unto itself; the training has to have the results that you intended. Measuring the effectiveness of the training we produce should be as much a part of the production process as research, revisions and quality assurance. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how you can find out if your training program is delivering how you want it to.

Read on to take a closer look at how you can find out if your training program is delivering how you want it to.

How Do You Know Your Training Program Is Working?

Ken Flesher, President and Founder of BaseCorp Learning Systems answered questions from students at Concordia University in Montreal about the the eLearning industry.

This article is an interview with Ken Flesher, President and Founder of BaseCorp Learning Systems. He answered questions from students at Concordia University in Montreal about the the eLearning industry.

Interview with Ken

An eLearning authoring tool is an application for building eLearning courses and content. Let’s take a look at what an authoring tool can do for you.

Read on to take a closer look at what an authoring tool can do for you.

Why You Need an Authoring Tool

Online learning doesn’t have to be isolating. Collaborative learning offers social contact while encouraging learners to engage in higher-level thinking like analysis and evaluation. How can you incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course?

Read on to look at how you can incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course.

Collaborative Activities for Online Learning

Training that contributes to business goals must be evaluated accurately, and sometimes that means using a chainsaw as well as a computer. eLearning may be versatile, but when physical skills are involved, the corporate trainer's toolkit must include practical skill evaluations.

Read on to look at the value of on the job evaluation.

When You Need a Practical Learner Evaluation

Skill gaps can be responsible for poor productivity, failure to meet business goals, unsatisfied clients, error-prone processes and even safety incidents and injuries. They can develop for any number of reasons, but successful companies don't let them continue. This article will introduce and discuss four steps for finding the skill gaps that are causing you problems.

Are you wondering where skill gaps might be hiding in your organization? This article will introduce and discuss four steps for finding the skill gaps that are causing you problems.

Finding Skill Gaps

Single sign-on (or SSO) is a feature we hear a lot about today. But what does it mean? Let's take a closer look at what single sign-on means for you as you research different learning management systems, and how it connects with other terms you may be researching, such as APIs.

Read on to take a closer look at what single sign-on means for you as you research different learning management systems, and how it connects with other terms you may be researching, such as APIs.

What's the Deal with Single Sign-On?

Accessible eLearning means making your content available to the widest audience possible. This article will look at what sort of things must be done to develop accessible online content.

Read on to look at what sort of things must be done to develop accessible online content.

8 Ways to Make eLearning Accessible

Inverting your training is one of the easiest, most cost-effective ways to reinvigorate your training program and pique your learners' interest. Read on about what it means to invert your learning, how you can do this, and the ways this can benefit your training program.

This article will look at what it means to invert your learning, how you can do this, and the ways this can benefit your training program.

3 Ways to Invert Your Training

It's a real challenge to write without (or at least with less) bias when our biases are so often unconscious. This article will look at some of the things we can do to keep them out of what we write.

Read on to look at some of the things we can do to expose biases for what they are and keep them out of what we write.

6 Tips for Writing Without Bias

This article will look at what you should be doing to continue to skill your employees and deliver valuable and effective learning during COVID-19.

It's too early to say how COVID-19 will ultimately impact companies, but we can turn to digital and virtual technologies to promote and deliver learning. Read on to look at what you should be doing to continue to skill your employees and deliver valuable and effective learning during COVID-19.

Learning in the Time of COVID 19

Collaborative learning is a highly effective way to learn. How can SkillBuilder LMS help you get the most out of this type of learning?

Collaborative learning is a hot topic these days.

Online Collaborative Learning with SkillBuilder® LMS

eLearning requires inclusive design to reach a diverse audience. This article will explore several elements of inclusive design and how to incorporate them in eLearning.

This article will explore several elements of inclusive design and how to incorporate them in eLearning.

5 Steps to More Inclusive eLearning

What factors make the difference in quality collaborative learning? We explore how to build a valuable experience for your learners.

Read on to find out how to build a valuable experience for your learners.

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Online Collaborative Learning

Find an LMS that can connect to the best-in-class systems that someone’s already built, ones that you may be using now.

Do you want an LMS with top-of-the line, custom-built learner forums, payment processors, and analytics?

SkillBuilder® LMS Integrations

What can you do to overcome the forgetting curve and make the learning you develop last? Five tips for you to start incorporating today!

What do you recall about the last eLearning module you completed? If you’re like most of us, not much.

Tackling the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve in Corporate Training

Writing effective assessment questions is harder than many people realize. This article will review strategies for building fair and meaningful eLearning assessment items.

Read on to look at some strategies for building fair and meaningful eLearning assessment items.

Building Meaningful eLearning Assessments: Summative Online Test Questions

This article is about the number one challenge for talent development: getting employees to make time for learning.

Read on about the number one challenge for talent development: getting employees to make time for learning.

Why Employees Demand L&D Resources, But Don't Make the Time to Learn

This article will identify six simple and easy strategies for enhancing your existing learning program without spending a lot of effort, time and money.

This article will identify six simple and easy to implement strategies for enhancing your existing learning program without spending a lot of effort, time and money.

Six Creative Ways to Enhance Existing Training Programs

This article will outline an on-the-job learning cycle and the key elements for reinforcing skill retention: repetition, applicability and use of technology.

This article will briefly outline an on-the-job learning cycle that can be applied in all industries and discuss three key elements for reinforcing skill retention: repetition, applicability and use of technology.

Corporate Training: 3 Ways to Reinforce Skill Retention

This article is about two approaches to motivate the registration for online courses: select effective marketing strategies and remove motivational barriers.

This article will review two related approaches to motivating people to register for your online courses: selecting effective marketing strategies and removing motivational barriers.

Motivate People to Register for Your Online Courses

LMS pricing is not simple. Read on to better understand LMS pricing models and how to compare costs and decide which model and price point works best for you.

This article will look at LMS pricing models. It will let you compare costs across models and decide which model, and which price point, works best for you.

LMS Pricing Models: How Much Does an LMS Really Cost?

This article will look at the 70:20:10 learning and development (L&D) model that offers a broader approach to learning and professional development.

This article will look at the 70:20:10 learning and development (L&D) model that offers a broader approach to learning and professional development, changing roles and fostering a new mindset across the whole organization.

The 70:20:10 L&D Model: A Transformative Approach to Learning

Writing an effective eLearning storyboard isn't an easy task. Read on about the six most common storyboarding mistakes and how to improve your eLearning.

This article will look at the six most common storyboarding mistakes and provide tips for improving your eLearning.

6 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing an eLearning Storyboard

Ask the right questions to get the right answers. Read this article to learn the seven training analysis questions you should be asking in order to get them.

This article will review the seven training analysis questions you should be asking in order to get the right answers.

Ask the Right Training Analysis Questions

Choosing an LMS, you will encounter two types - open source and cloud-based. This article will help you decide which option is the best for your organization.

This article will help you understand the different pricing models, and decide which option - open source LMS or cloud-based LMS - is the best for your organization.

Open Source LMS vs. Cloud-Based LMS: Which is Right for You?

This article identifies the benefits and challenges of mobile learning and provides tips for organizations developing mobile friendly training content.

What is mobile learning? This article defines mobile learning, identifies the benefits and challenges associated with mobile learning and provides three tips for organizations who are considering developing mobile friendly training content.

Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Learning

This article will look at who the modern corporate learner is, and how we can design learning that engages millennials.

The migration of millennials into the workforce has led to a rapid evolution over the last 10 years. But how do we engage the younger workforce? Read on to discover who the modern corporate learner is, and how we can design learning that engages millennials.

Online Learning: 5 Ways to Engage Millennial Learners

Continuous learning is key to the success of your workforce and organization. Read on about how you can best engage your learners in this process.

This article will look at continuous learning, its importance in today's workplace, and how you can best engage your learners in this process.

Continuous Learning: 6 Tips for Increasing Employee Skillsets

Game-based learning have great potential. This article will discuss how to develop games that keep your learners rolling the dice, not rolling their eyes.

What better way is there to learn than by playing a game? Read on to find out how to develop games that keep your learners rolling the dice, not rolling their eyes.

Top 6 Features of Successful Game-Based Learning

Good learning objectives are key to successful learning programs. Read on about the characteristics of effective learning objectives and how to write them.

This article will examine the characteristics of effective learning objectives and offer a guide to writing them.

How to Write Effective Learning Objectives

This article will identify what competency-based training is, why it is effective and the benefits of competency-based training.

Teaching a learner to be able to perform a skill or task to a predetermined standard is the essence of competency-based training. Read on about what competency-based training is, why it is effective and the benefits of competency-based training.

Why is Competency-Based Training So Effective?

What is a needs analysis and how do you conduct one? This article discusses the components of a training needs analysis and how to conduct one.

This article discusses the components of a training needs analysis and provides suggestions for how you might go about conducting one.

How to Conduct a Training Needs Analysis

This article highlights three key ways to measure the effectiveness of your training: measuring engagement, observing social ownership, and using metrics.

This article will highlight three key ways that can help you measure the effectiveness and performance of your training: measuring engagement, observing social ownership, and using metrics.

How to Measure the Performance of Training Programs

A few months into 2021, it's a good time to ask what's been happening and what's ahead in eLearning. Read on our predictions for eLearning Trends for 2021.

This article will look at eLearning Trends for 2021.

eLearning Trends for 2021

This post will describe a series of features a LMS must have and give you a better understanding of the most relevant ones to anyone comparing LMS solutions.

Read on to have a better understanding of the features that are relevant to anyone out there comparing LMS solutions.

10 Must Have Learning Management System (LMS) Features

This article will look at some drop-off causes and how to reduce it.

Registration drop-off is much higher than learning developers would like. This article will review some causes of high attrition rates and what we can do to reduce it.

Prevent Registration Drop-Off!

This article is about formal and informal learning, its advantages (and corresponding disadvantages) and how to they can help you achieve you training goals.

Read on to take a closer look at formal and informal learning, its advantages (and corresponding disadvantages) and how to they can help you achieve you training goals.

Formal vs Informal Learning (And How an LMS Can Help!)

This article has some ideas to make eLearning more appealing and engaging.

This article will take a look at some big ideas in eLearning to make it more appealing, more engaging and something that learners want to do.

Three Ways to Make Your eLearning More Appealing

What is AI? Will AI render L&D obsolete? This article will talk about AI and it's implications for L&D.

Artificial intelligence is beginning to deliver, mark and even create learning content, so what's left for L&D? Will AI render L&D obsolete? Read on about AI and it's implications for L&D.

How AI Will Be Incorporated into Your Learning and Development Processes

This article is about artificial intelligence (AI), what to consider when adopting AI-based eLearning and it's ethical implications.

In this article, I will identify some of the questions that should be considered when adopting AI-based eLearning strategies. I will also look at the ethical implications surrounding accuracy, transparency and privacy.

Ethical Implications of Using AI in eLearning

How do you determine if your training is actually working? In this article, I'll discuss some of the ways that you can assess the effectiveness of your learning, the types of information you need to do so and how to get it.

How do you determine if your training is actually working? Read on about some of the ways that you can assess the effectiveness of your learning, the types of information you need to do so and how to get it.

Is Your Training Actually Working?

The problem for many leaders in our fast-paced corporate world is that they are too busy leading to do anything else. Yet, to maintain success as leaders, they need continuous learning. How do they find the time to do their jobs and engage in management and leadership development? In this article, I'll talk about different ways eLearning can be used to promote leadership qualities and foster leaders within an organization.

How do leaders find the time to do their jobs and engage in management and leadership development? Read on about different ways eLearning can be used to promote leadership qualities and foster leaders within an organization.

How eLearning Can Foster Leadership Skills

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner, and how can learning providers make sure we are meeting the digital learner's needs? In this article, I'll talk a bit about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner? Read on about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

How are Digital Technologies Shaping the Modern Learner?

Is your organization doing just fine - flourishing, in fact - without a Learning Management System (LMS)? Many organizations are. But what if you could be doing even better? If you've got (or ought to have) a training program, you need an LMS. This article will review eight of the ways an LMS can enhance organizational training and help you achieve your goals.

Is your organization doing just fine without a LMS? Many organizations are. But what if you could be doing even better? If you've got a training program, you need an LMS. This article will review eight of the ways an LMS can enhance organizational training and help you achieve your goals.

Why an LMS Is an Integral Part of Your Organization's Future

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Artificial intelligence has and will continue to affect many aspects of our lives, including learning. In this article, I'll describe some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Read on about some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

What is Artificial Intelligence and How Will It Impact Learning?

Being an up-to-date, web-savvy HR professional, you've scoped the latest trends in workplace learning. In this article, I'll discuss some criteria that you can use to determine if your L&D program is addressing your training needs.

Read on about some criteria that you can use to determine if your L&D program is addressing your training needs.

Ensuring Your L&D Program is Addressing Your Training Needs

LMS users break down into two basic groups: Learners and Administrators. Each of these groups use the LMS in different ways. In this two-part series, I'll discuss how each of these groups use an LMS, and what they must be taught in order to use it to their full advantage.

This two-part series will discuss how Learners and Administrators use an LMS, and what they must be taught in order to use it to their full advantage using SkillBuilder® LMS to illustrate various functionalities used by each group.

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