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3 Cues Corporate Training eLearning Professionals Can Take from MOOCs
Do a quick web search for “MOOC” and you’ll see that Massive Open Online Courses are all the rage right now. Various media outlets have named 2011, 2012, and 2013 …
Mitigating the Risk of Mobile Learning by the Connection to Business Goals
While there’s no question mobile learning will be an ever-increasingly important part of your training mix, it’s important to ensure that your mobile development efforts, especially your initial efforts, are …
How Social Media Should Drive More Authentic Training and eLearning
It goes without saying that social media has drastically changed the way we connect with the world around us. It provides a large open space for all aspects of our …
What it Takes to Get a 5-star eLearning Course
We see quality ratings everywhere these days. Everyone wants the credibility of a 5-star rating, but how can you know if something is really quality? At Allen, we ensure that …
Localization, Not Just Translation, for Effective Global Corporate Training
Corporate training, at least the way we envision it here at Allen, isn’t a conduit for transferring information to a learner but needs to reflect the culture of the organization …
The Challenge of Teaching Soft Skills in Web-Based Training: Ethics
Dealing with soft skills is always a challenge in web-based training. How do you model the behaviors in an elearning environment? How do you assess the learner’s understanding? It’s possible …
Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Engaging Corporate Training
My daughter and her friends enjoy making those annoying YouTube-style videos that feature improvisations, movie parodies, and music videos. I hate them—not my daughter (or even her friends) but the …
Typography and eLearning Development; Don’t Contribute to the Arial Cliché
When I think of ways I can improve my graphic design skills, typography is always at the top of the list (it has been for 17 years now). Since our …