What Is Distance Learning?
Distance learning, or eLearning, is a formalized instructional system designed to be carried out remotely by using digital communications. Distance learning is less expensive to support and is not constrained by geography. Indeed, instructors, facilitators, and learners can be located anywhere and can engage in distance learning as long as they have an Internet connection. […]
Instructional Design Storyboarding Software And Tools
Storyboarding organizes images and graphics in order to “pre-visualize” an interactive media sequence. It plans the narrative in pre-production, a blueprint of sorts, so everyone on the team can have a much better idea of how the information will be presented. As it relates to instructional design, storyboarding maps the different elements of a proposed […]
The Ultimate Guide to Instructional Design Models
Instructional design is a term used to describe evidence-based strategies and techniques for developing and delivering learning experiences. A learning experience is a broad term that encompasses anything where learning is involved, including courses, presentations, tests and quizzes, and support materials. Without instructional design models, instructional designers and learning leaders would be flying blind when […]
5 Signs Your Training and Development Project is Succeeding
Once a project is planned and kicked off, the role of the project manager is more than simply nudging team members—digitally, of course—to complete their projects on time. The project manager must find ways to encourage and engage team members to add quality and effort that may not have been laid out in the plan. […]
How to Make Compliance Training Engaging and Effective
While engagement has always been an important element for any learning experience, it is usually lacking when it comes to compliance training. Why is that? There could be several factors. For one, the content needing to be delivered in compliance training is often complex and rigid, and so instructional designers place compliance training in its […]
The Best Time To Plan Your Training Project
You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint. So, it stands to reason that you wouldn’t build a course or learning experience without a plan in place. Yet so many projects are planned during the kick-off process: what the end product will look like, how much it will cost, when it will be done. At […]
5 Warning Signs Your Training Project Is In Trouble
A project manager’s job is to make sure that tasks are getting completed and on time. It is also the project manager’s job to make sure that team members have access to all of the resources needed to complete these tasks, and that communications channels are open. However, projects often hit a snag, and a […]
4 eLearning Assessment Examples and Why They Work
More than just a way to prove that learners passed or completed a course, assessments play a key role in measuring the capacity of your learners to grasp your course material and apply what they’ve learned on the job. By combining different test and quiz options, and at different intervals of the course—not just at the […]
The Do’s and Don’t’s of Project Management for Training Development
The world of work today is defined by project management. Every job we do can be broken down into a series of projects, with associated team members, deadlines, and resources. While project management used to be seen as a standalone skill or process, it is now baked into everything across the organization. However, is project […]
What is a Training Needs Analysis or Needs Assessment?
A training needs analysis lays the necessary groundwork for determining your organization’s true needs and how your employees can best receive and benefit from the required training. As with any process, having a solid foundation can help ensure success. What is a training needs analysis or needs assessment? A training needs assessment is a process […]
