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.

Gamification for Learning

A Lesson in Gamification from Car2Go

I was in a hurry to get home the other day and the bus wasn’t going to get me there in time, so I hopped in a Car2Go (if you’re not familiar with Car2Go, it’s a pretty ingenious way to get around town without having to own your own car; check it out here). As I sped home in the little Smart Car, I noticed what seemed like a warning light. I pressed on the ...

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Articulate Storyline

5 Tips to Become an Expert Storyline Developer

Articulate Storyline may be the greatest thing to sweep through the learning and development field since the creation of the action-oriented, learner-centered objective. Why? It’s insanely intuitive to use, and the Elearning Heroes online community is a place where you can instantly learn how to do anything you ever wanted to do in an eLearning environment. If you’re using Storyline and haven’t been taking advantage of the Elearning Heroes online community, here are five reasons ...

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Facilitation

Solve the Crime of the Century (A Training Murder Mystery)

I’ve been reading many upbeat accounts of presentations and experiences during the recent ASTD ICE. But what happens when an industry conference is a terrible experience? There are a number of learning and development blogs that have recently focused on how to maximize your experience at a conference. The Elearning Guild’s blog, TWIST, has begun a series called “What’s in your conference bag” which highlights ways that various learning professionals prepare for attending a conference. ...

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Elearning

In Order for Corporate Training to Improve, L&D Practitioners Need to Lose their Snobbery

On a scale from 1-10, how much do you love to be informed that you’re doing something wrong by a cocky, snide, snarky, arrogant know-it-all? There is so much work to be done when it comes to helping our colleagues and clients to improve their presentation skills. Over the past 15 years as I’ve worked in the learning and development space, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that we need to meet people ...

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Articulate Storyline

I think I’m engaging, but why doesn’t my audience seem engaged?

As a presenter, I have my favorite techniques and strategies to engage my audience. Ironically, the more I attempt to engage an audience with some of these techniques and strategies, the less I’m actually able to engage them. As I’ve reflected on this over the past several years, the issue seems to be related to people’s preferred learning styles. You may be familiar with the three basic learning styles: auditory, visual, kinesthetic. I’ve found that ...

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Elearning

Elearning Course Completion: A Wager

How do you ensure that learners are completing your elearning? Elearning course completion is a regular issue in organizations and some creative thinking may help you see better results. My boss and I just couldn’t get into an 8-module eLearning course. We decided to reach deep into our bag of tricks and create a disincentive for not completing the course. If either of us failed to complete the eLearning course (and then pass the final, ...

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Elearning

Case Study: eLearning Engagement

My boss and I have been wanting to attend a course on project management for some time and were looking forward to a week-long workshop later this month. Until it was canceled. So we made a pact to complete a series of eLearning modules that covered the same content. We agreed to meet weekly to check in and share key learnings from the various modules until we completed the course and passed the accompanying exam ...

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Facilitation

Dissecting a Webinar: The Quest for Interaction in Distance Education

Web conferencing technology can be an amazing way to shrink the distance between a facilitator and the rest of the world. Of course, web conferencing technology is only as effective (and interesting) as the design of the webinar. There are many blogs and magazine articles and even books that offer tips and suggestions on how to design an engaging webinar. This post is designed to break down an actual webinar and point out actual examples ...

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Articulate Storyline

Involve Me And I Understand: The Boomerang

In my blog, I preach the virtues of getting creative and engaging learners in your training design. And it dawned on me that all I’m doing is telling you, I’m not involving you. It seems I’ve been a bit hypocritical. Over the weekend I threw together a short elearning module in an effort to begin making amends to everyone who comes to this blog. Back in May 2013, I wrote The Boomerang: Answering Questions with ...

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