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.

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PowerPoint vs. Storyline (aka: Telling vs. Experiencing)

I imagine most training professionals and instructional designers are quite familiar with the old proverb: “Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” Why, then, do so many elearning modules continue to tell content at the learners? I recently posed this question to several training program managers from large, Seattle-area tech companies. Their answers made a lot of business sense: with so many training modules that need to ...

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Learning from the Articulate Elearning Heroes Community

The holy grail of shifting training from a one-off event to an ongoing process is to develop a robust and active learning community – a group that comes together informally, as needed, in order to share best practices, ideas, examples and to kick around questions about intractable problems. Learning communities offer just-in-time answers and members can stay current on the latest trends. I’ve seen very few examples of sustained, active, robust learning communities. But somehow ...

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Case Study: Converting from Classroom-based Training to e-Learning

Putting together an interactive case study for learners followed by an in-depth de-brief is one of the most effective training strategies I know. But what happens if an experienced facilitator isn’t always available to lead such a session? Part 1: The Case Study The Problem By September 2011, my organization had replaced an old, log book-based “database” with a new IT system across multiple locations. While managers complied with the compulsory use of this new ...

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eLearning Case Study: Going to the Next Level

Wayne was looking to take his eLearning design to the next level – instead of a series of PowerPoint-like slides that learners click through followed by a quiz at the end, he wanted something more engaging and effective. Part 1 of this eLearning case study includes the background and choices that were made. Part 2 of this eLearning case study features advice from eLearning and instructional design professionals. Part 1: eLearning Case Study The Challenge: ...

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