Elearning Examples and Inspiration

The elearning designers and developers at Endurance Learning write regularly about their experiences and share elearning examples designed to help you improve your elearning program. To learn more about how our team can help you build great elearning, you can read more about our elearning development services.

Visual Design

When it comes to the people in your PowerPoint or eLearning programs, do looks matter?

If the images of the people in your PowerPoint don't look like the actual people in your audience, it could be a problem.

Learn More

Articulate Storyline

Fun with Storyline: A Man’s Guide to Holiday Party Attire

Are you a guy? Never know quite what to wear when you're told to wear "cocktail attire"? This job aid just might help!

Learn More

Goal setting

In honor of the Women’s World Cup goal-fest, here are 5 goals for L&D professionals…

Yesterday as I watched the US women make it look so easy to score five goals in the World Cup finals, I wondered if other people in other professions could ever make it look so easy to achieve five goals. Here are five goals that learning and development professionals might want to consider. They’re certainly not easy to accomplish, but the key here is to make achieving them look easy.

Learn More

Facilitation

4 Free, Underused Resources that Training Department Managers and ID Professors Should Be Using

Last week I was perusing my Twitter feed and came across this little tidbit from Melissa Milloway: If I were an #InstructionalDesign #elearning professor I would include the #ELHChallenge #guildchat #lrnchat &/or #chat2lrn as homework. — Mel Milloway (@MelMilloway) April 21, 2015 It made me smile. When I recently interviewed for an instructor position for a new professional certificate program in Workplace Learning and Professional Development at the University of Washington, I actually used the ...

Learn More

Visual Design

It’s not gonna win the Oscar for Best Animated Short, but…

…for training professionals, PowToon is worth checking out. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s an online tool (free and premium versions are available) to create short, animated videos. I wrote about it last October, but at that time I hadn’t quite figured out how to use it. Over the weekend I watched a short how-to video on YouTube and decided it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. The timeline element is a bit ...

Learn More

Articulate Storyline

Using eLearning to Promote Classroom Sessions

“What’s in it for me” is a common mantra for learners, especially because they probably have more pressing things to take care of. Your upcoming training session is competing for their time and attention. In order to grab potential attendees’ attention for an upcoming face-to-face workshop, I recently used Articulate Storyline to create a brief online quiz (click this link if you have 3 minutes and want to take it for a test drive). Putting ...

Learn More

Articulate Storyline

A New Tool to Help You Decide how to Spend Professional Development Dollars

Budget season has descended upon my organization. While we try frantically to meet the deadlines set forth by the finance department, we’re also trying to pay for as many 2015 expenses as possible by spending 2014 funds prior to December 31. If you happen to be in the same boat, I spent some time this weekend inventing a cool new tool (at least I think it’s cool) to help you decide how to spend some ...

Learn More

Free Online Animation Tools for Elearning

Creating video and animation for elearning no longer has to be expensive or exclusive. Check out these free online animation tools to improve elearning delivery. Whenever I spend time reading an industry magazine, I want to be sure I take something away from it. In the issue of td magazine that was sitting on my desk, I stumbled upon an article about PowToon, a free online tool to create animations and promo videos. I’ve been creating more and more promo ...

Learn More

93% of Learners are Just Saying No to L&D

A colleague emailed me this report on attitudes toward elearning from Towards Maturity, and it was eye opening. Perhaps the most striking statistic in this survey, which gathered responses from 2,000 learners, was that only 7% of them thought that the learning and development department would be most influential to encourage them to learn online. It’s long been known that “if you build it they will come” is a losing prospect for learning departments – ...

Learn More