Effective eLearning, like a good sales presentation, involves persuasion, engagement, and motivation. If you can keep learners interested, get their buy-in, and make sure they’ve got all the relevant information at the end of it all, then you can be sure that your eLearning is going to be a great success.
It doesn’t matter what tool you use – whether it’s a bespoke eLearning authoring tool (like Articulate Storyline) or something more rudimentary (like PowerPoint), we’ve collated some really useful tips and best practices for all developers and content creators. Browse the articles from BrightCarbon’s eager eLearning beavers to discover how to create effective eLearning content, right from writing your learning objectives, all the way through to effective UX and graphic design.
Want to build some interactivity into your PowerPoint slides? Here are two easy entry-level ways that you can turn your PowerPoint slides into dynamic and interactive material for eLearning.
When you’re teaching a skill, it’s important to assess learners’ progress. It’s a way of making sure you’re on the right track to meeting your learning objectives, and flags up anything that you might have missed. Whilst quizzes, tests, and other eLearning assessments are a tried and tested way to track improvement, learners start to suffer when eLearning is focused more on assessment than on the act of learning itself.
Even the most tedious tasks can be transformed from things we have to do into things we’re addicted to doing. it’s happening, it’s called gamification. Let's discuss.
When done well, eLearning can be a truly effective and engaging learning tool. An eLearning module that works for some learners, but leaves others unable to access the content, isn’t doing its job. This is why accessibility in eLearning is so important. Let's discuss...
I love learning things – I’m always on the look-out for a new skill to learn, or something I can already do, but want to do better. But it doesn’t work out every time, and when it doesn’t, there’s almost as much to learn as when it does. Let's take a look...
Do you struggle with writing and developing eLearning content? Do you spend hours considering what to include in your staff or sales training? One solution to your problem could be going back to university for one to three years; to gain a wealth of knowledge on teaching principles, strategies and best practises. Or you could just read this blog...
Here at BrightCarbon we’re always trying to make eLearning as effective as possible. A few members of the team sat down to talk about lessons from the world of education and the role that interactivity plays in eLearning. Let the discussion commence...
Triggers allow you to initiate a sequence of animations by clicking on a specific object rather than a simple mouse click. This can be helpful for de-cluttering a slide or making a presentation more interactive however getting triggers to work practically can be a bit tricky. Let's take a look.
Online learning is fast becoming the go-to method for delivering courses, and testing is becoming a key part of making sure that your participants take away the right information. The trouble is that getting someone to answer a question might be good in the moment, but how do you write questions that will test participants so that they’ll retain the information longer than a Snapchat...
Want to build some interactivity into your PowerPoint slides? Here are two easy entry-level ways that you can turn your PowerPoint slides into dynamic and interactive material for eLearning.
Training presentations done well can impart information that stays with you for a considerable amount of time. The same can be said about poor training presentations, but for all the wrong reasons. The good news is that all it takes is a few key techniques and people will end up taking much more away from your courses than the free pens and paper.
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