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Keeping the interest of your students in your virtual classroom

With the ever-growing number of distractions in our digital and analog lives, it’s important to keep your students interested in your courses until they finish. Here are 4 great tips to keep people engaged in your course and lessons.

1. Keep the examples modern and relevant. Don’t re-hash old stores and information, make sure everything is up to date and interesting!

2. Pictures pictures pictures! People and often visual learners, and text or droning voices in videos will put them to sleep.

3. Mix it up - some video, some slides, some quizzes and keep them on their toes.

4. Repetition is important to get the message through. It would be great if people could learn things the first time around, but it often takes examples of different types to get the message through. Keep trying to teach them until they learn!

I hope you enjoy and can incorporate some of these tips into your eLearning courses.

#elearning #distance education #online learning

Choose the best LMS

In 2015 there are a ton of LMS options out there. While it's great to have so many options for ready-to-go learning management systems, it means it's so much harder to choose the right option for you.

In this post, I'm going to go over a number of ready to go eLearning platforms.

Some of most popular options are:

udemy

coursia

onkea

#LMS #learning management system #eLearning

eLearning on the bus

Nice article from the onkea eLearning company on how to do an eLearning course on the bus:

http://onkea.com/elearning-on-the-bus/

#elearning #mobile elearning

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10 Things That Learners Pay Attention To (And How to Use Them in eLearning)

Here’s one of them:

Comparisons. Studies reveal the brain pays more attention to what’s new or different. It’s natural for people to get curious about something new, foreign, weird, unpredictable or different. When eLearning content is surprising or unexpected, ignoring it become impossible. According to Carmine Gallo’s blog “Why TED Talks Are Impossible to Resist”, experts in the subject explained that “Our brains are trained to look for something brilliant and new, something that stands out, something that looks delicious.” To get your learners to pay attention for a long time, you need to keep giving them new things to think about, but obviously you don’t want to stray too far from the topic. Making a comparison, simile, or metaphor helps focus attention. Plus, if you refer to a familiar aspect of the learner’s life, they may find it easier to grasp your point.

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5 Strategies for Delivering Readable eLearning Content

Use Contrast The most readable text is simple – it’s black text on a white background. Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Black on white has worked for centuries as body text, and with good reason.

Break It Up Any huge block of text is difficult to read. Simply stated, text is easiest to read when you deliver it in short paragraphs – ideally, no more than four sentences each. You can also toss in a graphic or two to add visual interest, but make sure that it relates to the content.

Use White Space If your eLearning design consists of wall-to-wall text, no one is going to want to read. Use margins around your text blocks, and additional spacing between lines so that people know where one paragraph ends and the next begins.

Alignment Type that is left-aligned is easier to read than type that is right-aligned. You can use right alignment occasionally, like when you’re wrapping text around photos, but in general, lean to the left. Justified type doesn’t work well on web pages, because the text blocks are usually narrow and justification results in huge gutters of white space.

Use Font Sizes Judiciously Your body text should always be in one size, and one size only. Go larger on subheads, and larger still in headers. This alerts the learner to when a new topic or subtopic is being developed. Ideal sizes for effective eLearning courses are 18 point for headers, 14 for subheads, and 11 or 12 for body text.

E-learning should replace snow days, expert says

Check out this great article from the CBC in Canada on the future of eLearning.

What a great idea for eLearning when the weather is too severe for travel to school.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/e-learning-should-replace-snow-days-expert-says-1.2544975

#elearling #snow days #school

I just read this great article on the articulate site on why building interactive elearning tutorials is a two step process. It goes on to talk about things like on-screen actions and how to keep learners involved in the process. You can read it here:

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/two-steps-interactive-elearning/

#elearing #interactive elearning

10 posts and many more to come.

#10 posts #tumblr milestone

Adobe Captivate 8

Adobe Captivate - content will rearrange itself for the new tablet and mobile views!

Amazing feature available in Captivate version 8

There's a huge advantage to being able to do eLearning on the go. Take your down time on the bus or train into some of your most productive learning time.

#elearning #adobe #Adobe Captivate #mobile #mobile eLearning

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorials

I just noticed that the Adobe captivate tutorials for version 8 of captivate are up on Lynda.com

Captivate is a great way to create e-learning tutorials!

Also it looks as though onkea.com is adding Adobe captivate tutorials as well

#adobe #adobe captivate #elearning #e-learning software

C# Code Clinic...

I was just reading about this course on Lynda:

Code Clinic: C# with David Gassner

Explore a solution to a different C# challenge every month, and compare the results with other programming languages, in the Code Clinic series.

Since I have a Lynda account anyway, I decided to give it a try. It was amazing, I realized what I've been missing with C# and I think after finishing this course I'll finally be able to use C# programming language for some regular tasks.

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Ethiopia will host this year’s eLearning Africa which is also the tenth anniversary edition and which will be held under the patronage of the Ethiopian government.

The conference, which is the largest international event in Africa on ICT for education, training and development, will be held in Addis Ababa from May 20th – 22nd, under the patronage of the Ethiopian Government. Speaking of Ethiopia’s decision to host the event, Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Dr Debretsion Gebremichael said, “My government is pleased to host eLearning Africa as this is a conference returning to Ethiopia, where my government joined arms with ICWE in conceiving and launching the first eLearning Africa platform on African soil.”

“ eLearning Africa 2015 will create an opportunity to reflect on the 10 year journey traversed by eLearning Africa since its first conference in Addis Ababa. Furthermore, Ethiopia, as the seat of the African Union, welcomes conferences that bring together African policy makers and experts once more back to their home,” he added.

udemy - 95% off programming with android kitkat

I just saw this great deal for an awesome course with udemy. If you are looking to learn programming on android kitkat, this udemy course is an awesome one. Even at the full price, but now you can get it 95% off!

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I quite enjoyed this tutorial from onkea eLearning. It’s all about how to create a WordPress theme from scratch.

Most people seem to start off with an existing theme, and modify it to their needs. It can be great though to start with nothing, and get a nice clean fresh HTML based WordPress theme...

create a WordPress theme from scratch

I quite enjoyed this tutorial from onkea eLearning. It's all about how to create a WordPress theme from scratch.

Most people seem to start off with an existing theme, and modify it to their needs. It can be great though to start with nothing, and get a nice clean fresh HTML based WordPress theme without any legacy code.

Check it out here: create a wordpress theme from scratch

It is free. Also there is a tutorial on how to create a plugin from scratch as well, we'll blog about that one next!

Enjoy

#WordPress #eLearning #WordPress Theme #HTML #CSS #PHP

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