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.

Shauna Carson

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.

Jill W.

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.

Sarah Flesher

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

Look at some of the questions that your LMS reports answer, and what kinds of data you can examine to help answer them.

The ability to run reports is essential for any LMS. Let's look at some of the questions that your LMS reports should be able to answer, and what kinds of data you can examine to answer them.

Revolutionize Your Training with Optimized Reporting

This article will look at the challenges modern learners face, and how organizations can respond to their needs.

Read on to look at the challenges modern learners face, how those challenges shape their approach to learning, and how organizations can respond to their needs.

What Challenges Does the Modern Learner Face?

This article will explore how to ensure your learners stay engaged with their training.

Read on to look at a few things you can incorporate into your learning program to ensure your learners stay engaged with their training.

Want to Improve Your Training? Stop Boring Your Learners!

This article will look at why and how you should measure the impact of your training.

Read on to look at why it is so important to measure the impact of your training, and how you can do this without having to grow another set of hands.

Measuring the Impact of Your Learning Program

Read about the major trends in eLearning and how you can enhance your eLearning based on your training needs.

Do you want to be able to keep your training cutting edge? Let's take a look at some design approaches that you can use to enhance your eLearning based on your training need.

Design Trends You Can Use to Enhance your eLearning

Read about who the modern corporate learner is, and how we can design learning that engages millennials.

This article will help you discover who the modern corporate learner is, and how you can design learning that engages millennials.

Who is the Modern Corporate Learner?

This article will show some ways to add a bit of humour to your eLearning content.

Read on to look at some ways you can add a bit of humour to your eLearning content.

Using Humour to Improve Your Learning Content

This article will show how SkillBuilder® LMS can accommodate an instructional designer's dream scenarios.

Read on to look at the many ways SkillBuilder® LMS can accommodate an instructional designer's dream scenarios.

Learning Items in SkillBuilder® LMS: An Instructional Designer’s Dream

This article will take a look at why a white label solution is key when looking at Learning Management Systems.

Read on about why a white label solution is key when you are looking at Learning Management Systems.

Why Are White Label Solutions Important?

This article will talk about a few ways to save time and money when creating courseware.

Read on to look at a few ways to save time and money when creating courseware.

How to Save Time and Money When Creating Courseware

This article will talk about 7 ways that you can energize learning content and give your learning audience an engaging learning experience.

Read on to look at 7 ways that you can energize learning content, please your client and give your learning audience an engaging learning experience.

7 Ways to Energize Learning Content

Read about why you shouldn't base you training decisions exclusively on the technology available to you.

You shouldn't base you training decisions exclusively on the technology available to you. Read on about the three key factors that you need to consider before selecting your learning technology.

Don’t Let Tech Drive Your Training Outcomes

This article will look at 6 questions that will help you decide what you need from an authoring tool.

Read on to look at 6 questions that will help you find the authoring tool that offers the most for your organization.

Six Questions to Help You Choose the Right Authoring Tool

This article will take a look at the features all successful eLearning strategies must have.

Successful strategies may look very different at different organizations, but they should all include the same elements. Read on to take a closer look at these features.

What Does a Winning eLearning Strategy Look Like?

This article will explore the Cognitive Load Theory that provides strategies we can use to optimize our learners' ability to learn.

Did you know that people can only store around seven items in short term memory? Read on about the Cognitive Load Theory that provides several strategies we can use to optimize our learners' ability to learn.

Optimizing Cognitive Load in eLearning

This article will review some common, but avoidable, mistakes in corporate training.

We always want our learners to be engaged and interested and to apply what they've learned when they return to their jobs. This article will take a look at some common, but avoidable, mistakes in corporate training.

10 Common Corporate eLearning Mistakes

This article will look at what makes feedback effective, and how to create it for your eLearning.

Read on to learn what makes feedback effective, and how you can create useful feedback for your eLearning.

How to Provide Effective Feedback in eLearning

This article will explore six essentials for an effective practical skill evaluation.

We need to know whether an evaluation will be effective before we develop it, not after. This article will take a look at six essentials for an effective practical skill evaluation.

Six Essentials for an Effective Practical Skill Evaluation

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.

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