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E-Learning Courses That Don’t Waste Learner’s Time

Don’t waste resources.The first step is to realize the purpose of the course.Just keep it a simple, click-and-read course.Each course should have a specific objective.Then the content you create for the course needs to focus on meeting that objective. you want to maintain focus on achieving the objectives.

E-learning CDs are a value for money proposition. The percentage has increased from 45% to 50% now , and know improving better with every academic exam.

Learning becomes so easy when difficult and boring topics and concepts are explained through diagrams, animations, voice over, etc., and Scoremore CDs has it all.

E-Learning Courses That Don’t Waste Learner’s Time.

A great site about constructing E-Learning sites, the pros and cons about different methods, and examples of walk-throughs and lessons

A quality learning resource. Interactive online courses with audio and video material and exercises

The effective design of instructor-student interaction, meaningful student cooperation, and student-content interaction is essential to student motivation, intellectual commitment and personal development.

Usability refers to the ease with which visitors are able to use a web site. It involves making sure everything on the site works, but also how quickly and easily visitors are able to use the site to achieve their objectives

A button by button description of the course menu is effective and can be printed; video screencapture course tours with narration can also be very effective,provided they are up to date.

Course syllabus and related information should be given its own content area such as Course Information.

Learning objectives are clearly defined and explained. They help students focus their efforts and clarify expected learning outcomes.

The effective design of i nstructor-student interaction, meaningful student cooperation, and student-content interactio n is essential to student motivation, intellectual commitment and personal development

I appreciate the effort that your team has put into these tutorials and demonstrations.

“eLearning doesn't just "happen"! It requires careful planning and implementation.”

“Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves.” - Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen

“In order to create an engaging learning experience, the role of instructor is optional, but the role of learner is essential.”

“When it comes to the design of effective learning experiences, one provocative question is worth a hundred proclamations.”

“People expect to be bored by eLearning—let’s show them it doesn’t have to be like that!”

“It’s time to step up to the plate and get passionate about your work commit to making eLearning courses that don't bore people to tears, but instead inspire and motivate them to learn a new skill, change a certain behavior, or improve their performance.”

“The most important principle for designing lively eLearning is to see eLearning design not as information design but as designing an experience.”

“eLearning shouldn’t be a casual joy ride on a Sunday afternoon with the cruise control engaged. The sole purpose of eLearning is to teach.”

“When it comes to eLearning, content means everything. If eLearning content is not masterfully designed, all the rest will just go down the drain.”

“One of the most important areas we can develop as professionals is competence in accessing and sharing knowledge.”

"Online learning is not the next big thing, it is the now big thing.”

“eLearning is changing. And, we will see new models, new technologies and designs emerge. So, let’s drop the “e” – or at least give it a new and wider definition.”

"We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning."

“People often tout interactivity as the great benefit offered by eLearning, yet most interactivity does nothing to either engage or instruct.”

“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.”

“The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged. You can't see their eyes to know if they got it so ... say it, show it, write it, demo it and link it to an activity.”

“Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.”

“The most effective, successful professionals are constantly learning, they take the time to apply what they have learned, and they continually work to improve themselves.”

“Think about what your learners need to do with that information after the course is finished and design around that.”

“We don't care what people know, we care what they do. It's all about performance.”

“If learners think it looks bad, you may have lost a good percentage of the battle in getting them to pay attention.”

“Think out of the box and create a learning experience where the learner can interact with the content and their brains.”

“The key to success is to appreciate how people learn, understand the thought process that goes into instructional design, what works well, and a range of different ways of achieving goals.”

"Learning experiences are like journeys. The journey starts where the learning is now, and ends when the learner is successful. The end of the journey isn't knowing more, it's doing more."

"You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it."

"We complain that learners want to be spoonfed, but then we won't let them hold the spoon."

“The most important principle for designing lively e-learning is to see e-learning design not as information design but as designing an experience.”

"Boring to make is boring to take."

"Boring e-learning fails to engage the learner’s mind, and without that basic motivation and action, nothing can happen even when the learner goes through all the required motions."

"The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay."

"Start with performance, end with performance."

"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."

"If you continue training the same way you’ve always trained, don’t expect to get better results."

“In order to create an engaging learning experience, the role of instructor is optional, but the role of learner is essential.”

“An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.”

“e-Learning shouldn’t be a casual joy ride on a Sunday afternoon with the cruise control engaged. The sole purpose of e-Learning is to teach.”

"When training is done well, doors open, skills develop, and performance excellences yields personal and organizational rewards. People grow in ability, confidence, motivation and happiness."

Equipping teachers with technology that will automate the boring work will enhance education and make it more powerful. Teachers can spend more quality time on what they are good at i.e teaching.

Agility to make use of the system by the teachers or instructor is vital to implement innovation or a new technology.

Government Administrators or authorized peoples are not ready to spread the classroom information across the world. In the US, every teacher has to follow certain rules and framework, and that is never entertaining to spread the information.

Teachers are the ultimate people who use software. To make use of the software, we have to target teachers. But marketing them directly is not possible. Because they belongs to different layers in the administrative system.

Students are co-users of classroom technology.So, students have to learn how to use the technology. Make them involved in all the activities in the classroom.

Budget is the major issue in regards with training session in schools. Students lack actually what they need.

Looking beyond the education is crucial. Corporate have huge influence on education.The influence of corporate in education getting increased day by day. So, getting connected with the influential people who promote can bring great things.

The private education segment in India alone is expected to cross US$ 45 billion mark by 2015 from the present US$ 35 billion.

Accessing and adapting to technology and bringing those to students and learners is the major challenge. So, make them comfortable with the technology.

Degree of fear and anxiety is too much in education. Older people are facing fear to use the new innovations in technology.

The way of teaching is changing and updating everyday. The traditional and old paradigm of education in not demanding anything now. So, we have equip the classroom with new technology. It has it’s own advantage.

I am amazed with the technology that the schools have at present. The way of teaching is changing and updating day by day. So engaging younger teachers might be more effective.

In corporation, executive decision is so easy, whereas in education, executive decision have many layers. Freedom is limited in education.

Every country is competing for education knowledge. It has it’s economical benefits. But the government has some other needs other than economic that they want to drive through education.

The Government role has to be clarified, whether it is centralized or decentralized.

The biggest mistake people do in social media is they use social media to sell the products. Social media is all about creating relationship, especially LinkedIn. Talking each other through social media will bring lot of things. So be a resource to others and trustworthy.

Finding prospective customers through social media is tough task. In LinkedIn, we have specific search dynamic. By using this you can find out customers through school, company and teachers. Get introduced to them, join in a group and tag your network will help you to reach easily. Visibility makes a large impact.

Major reason for education is economic, like job decisions. But it is important to realize that there are non-economic benefits also like self actualization and cultural national good.

Adaptation to fear of failure is the best way to implement technology. Success will follow.

It is very important that if you want to reach out education arena, make the people to use your product free of cost and of course, provide them exemplary customer service.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“Online learning will rapidly become one of the most cost-effective ways to educate the world’s expanding workforce.”

“We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning.”

“An organizations ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“People expect to be bored by eLearning-let’s show them it doesn’t have to be like that!”

“Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.”

“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.”

“Think about what your learners need to do with that information after the course is finished and design around that.”

“You have to stop worrying about all the training metrics of how many people you trained and what your completion rate is. Only training people care about those numbers. You wouldn’t walk into the boardroom and have that discussion. They’d fall asleep or throw you out. The best thing you could do is to imagine the CEO and the senior staff – what do they talk about? They don’t talk about training. They talk about sales. They talk about customer satisfaction. They talk about inventory. Those are the problems training people have to solve in order to move from the classroom to the boardroom.”

“The key to success is to appreciate how people learn, understand the thought process that goes into instructional design, what works well, and a range of different ways of achieving goals.”

“You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.”

“Companies will never have a truly sustainable advantage that’s based on products or prices. You need to focus on the rate at which people learn. It’s the learning speed of the slowest many, not the learning speed of the brightest few, that will set the pace for your company.”

“People often tout interactivity as the great benefit offered by eLearning, yet most interactivity does nothing to either engage or instruct.”

“The most important principle for designing lively elearning is to see elearning design not as information design but as designing and experience.” – Cathy Moore

“Online learning is not the next big thing, it is now big thing.”

“Design is not just what it looks like or feels like, but how it works.”

“The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged. You can’t see their eyes to know if they got it so …say it, show it, write it, demo it and link it to an activity.”

“We complain that learners want to be spoon-fed, but then we won’t let them hold the spoon.”

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