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Making sense of the senses in e-learning courses (Part 2)

I have a confession to make: I'm a gambler. Or I just like to call myself that way. I like to place bets on all sorts of things. But I never ever place a bet unless I'm 100% certain that I'll win. My ...

Making sense of the senses in e-learning courses (Part 1)

E-learning enthusiasts everywhere promote the benefits of online courses and present their advantages over traditional learning methods. Most of the times, there are more positive aspects to e-learnin...

Online multimedia content in e-learning: Flash vs. HTML5

The traditional way of training is based on the didactic method of a teacher / professor / instructor pushing new information / knowledge onto learners / trainees' brains. While the core of this metho...

Is it really worth paying for online courses?

After inventing the wheel, our ancestors needed something to ease the trade between all of the goods that could be moved faster thanks to the circular innovation. So they invented money — another circ...

Why blended learning paves the way to business success

Information is the currency of today. Until recently, the more information a business had, the better their chances to rise above everyone else and advance in the profitable part of the market. But "t...

Will augmented reality revolutionize training?

There has been a lot of talking in the last past years on the Internet of Things and how our lives will be more and more interconnected with technology. Wearable computers are the means and augmented ...

10 insights for cultivating a happy workforce through learning

“Happy wife, happy life!” These words of wisdom found their way to that part of my brain responsible with long-term memory after watching RIO 2. There was something about that toucan that made this ph...

Should workplace learning be more like Uber?

Uber is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world, climbing to the top of the most powerful American companies, and rising its business worth well above $60 billion. Apart from all protes...

Why should you consider marketing courses to employees?

“Change is the only constant.” I don't know who said this, in what year, or in which context, but I feel it is a general truth. You know, like the Sun rises in the morning and the boiling temperature ...

Top 3 gamification techniques for your business training

Business training doesn't really have the best reputation among employees. As I said in a previous post, Gamification: the spoonful of sugar for the training medicine, e-learning professionals had to ...

Micro learning: From small dots to the big picture

Do you have any idea of what this picture represents? Cotton balls, maybe? The two whitey things in the middle could be some sort of flowers, but the ones from the left are definitely popcorn. As for ...

Millennials + Video = Love

Millennials Millennials. The generation almost everyone born before the '80s loves to hate. I can't blame them, really. Millennials demand a raise after three full days of work; they think they deserv...

Too busy for learning? That's just an excuse!

Here's a riddle for you: what can be up or down, bad or good, hard or lovely, big or off? Need some clues? It can hang heavy, it can have mists, it can fly and it will always tell. You can be ahead of...

7 Things to avoid when selecting an LMS

As a woman I often find myself in front of a clothes-full closet with a pout on my face, sighing, because I have nothing to wear. This isn't because I don't know what I want, but because I know exactl...

How interactive videos shape the future of workplace learning

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. If that is true, how much is a video worth? One million words, maybe? Taking a step even further, what about interactive videos? Should we keep doing the math? ...

Branching scenarios: Getting to e-learning’s El Dorado

For many instructional designers, creating engaging courses for employees and making them retain the new knowledge and apply it in real business situations — thus contributing to their company's succe...

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