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E-Learning is a uniquely transformative force which has direct bottom line impact. However Elearning has to be done right to ensure its vast advantages are realized in organizations. Get the latest thought leadership in Elearning.
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The Government’s Take on eLearning Effectiveness
There’s no doubt that eLearning is a hot topic these days, and even the government is interested in more closely examining it to determine its effectiveness for delivering educational results. An important study by the US Department of Education several years back did exactly that, conducting a meta-analysis of 45 different studies that looked at […]
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A Model for Effective eLearning Design
Here’s how not to go about designing eLearning: Take existing instructional content and map it onto the technology you want to use. While this kind of repurposing occasionally makes sense, it’s putting the proverbial cart of delivery method choice before the more basic and essential proverbial cart of pedagogical and instructional issues. This runs the […]
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eLearning Career Guide #7: Education or Experience?
In the last several articles, I’ve listed out examples of undergraduate eLearning degrees, graduate certificate programs, and master’s degrees focused on eLearning. There are those, however, who question whether or not you even need a degree in instructional design of any kind to be a great eLearning course builder. The answer to that is, of […]
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eLearning Career Guide #6: Graduate Degrees
If you’re planning to go far in your career as an eLearning professional, you should consider graduate education such as a Master’s degree. Most of the programs out there are general instructional design degrees, man of which will have an eLearning component built into them. In this article, I’m going to specifically list the ones […]
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eLearning Career Guide #5: Graduate Certificates
If you want to really nail down the best credentials to launch or enhance your career as an eLearning professional, you’ll want to get either a graduate certificate or master’s degree in instructional design and technology. Not all of the programs out there with those words in their titles have as much of a focus […]
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eLearning Career Guide #4: Undergraduate Education
Launching or enhancing your career as an eLearning professional necessarily involves making sure you have the right education under your belt. This article will take a look at both undergraduate and graduate options.
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eLearning Career Guide#3: More Portfolio Tips and Examples
In this current series of articles, I’m providing some guidance to those who want to launch or enhance their eLearning careers. In the last article, I highlighted the importance of developing your eLearning portfolio – an essential self-marketing piece that can really make or break your efforts. I’d like to continue to with portfolio development […]
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eLearning Career Guide#2: The Portfolio
An essential step in launching or enhancing your career as an eLearning professional is to put together a stellar portfolio of your past work. This can and should take a significant amount of time and effort. You want the world to see what you’ve done, and you want to present it in as compelling a […]
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eLearning Career Guide #1: Nailing the Interview
If you’ve decided that you want to make a career in corporate eLearning, good for you. The industry is poised for significant growth that shows no signs of letting up. I think it’s important for those contemplating the corporate eLearning career path to know a few things about what’s in store as you try to […]
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The (Unfulfilled) Promise of mLearning
mLearning is hot. If you Google corporate mobile learning, you get 114 million results, but only 416,000 if you Google corporate mLearning, which only goes to show that the nomenclature is still in the process of changing and settling down. There is a lot of writing going on all around the Internet related to corporate […]
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eLearning as a Profit Center
Companies everywhere are expecting more and more from their learning departments. They want them to equip the workforce with the skills and knowledge they need to better achieve business goals, and to prove that learning initiatives are having the kind of positive, quantifiable impacts intended. If you can make this happen at your company, then […]
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eLearning: Strange Facts and Anomalies
Now that 2015 is well under way, it’s time to take a peek at some of the statistics related to eLearning that tend to come out around the end of one year and the beginning of the next. The intention of those articles is typically to identify trends that are shaping the eLearning field. Unfortunately, […]
