Sunday, May 30, 2021

Tips To Consider While Incorporating Gamification In Elearning Courses

 

As far as ‘including fun elements in training’, aka ‘gamification’ is concerned, many eLearning content developers shirk from it. They wrongly presume that gamification doesn’t play a significant role in the ‘serious’ business of eLearning. Moreover, they think that it consumes more time, money, resources to build end-to-end gamification, compared to the regular course content.

As a result, many content developers end up building placid, un-interactive, non-engaging content, especially when eLearning gamification in training would have made their courses so effective. Hence, we wouldn’t find many eLearning training courses resorting to gamification strategies in eLearning. But, of late, the trend looks progressive in terms of incorporating gamification for e-learning.


Tips For Quality Assurance In e-Learning and Its Importance


Quality assurance has a significant role in all industries, be it Pharmaceutical, electronics, mechanical, etc. This is done just to avoid any setbacks in the future. This builds trust among the customers on your product and services, hence provide you an opportunity for customer retention.

But does Quality assurance in e-Learning play an important role? Well…the answer is clearly yes, but how?

In this blog, we will discuss the strategies and tips that can be useful while conducting Quality Assurance and also look at the ways Quality assurance plays an important role in eLearning.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Tips To Convert Flash Courses To HTML5 - Captivate 2019


 In the context of Adobe’s decision – along with major web browsers – not to support Flash player from 31st December 2020, the need for ‘legacy content conversion’ of Flash to HTML 5 has come into play. There are other reasons as well – the growing trend for rapid eLearning content and the current need to play eLearning courses on multiple devices. Moreover, the open-source web technology, HTML5 is recognized to have content design flexibility and course deployment feasibility. Flash to HTML5 conversion enables a course to play device-independent and makes learning happen anytime.

So, once you have taken a decision to convert Flash to HTML5, the next best decision is to select the right authoring tool to go ahead with. One prominent rapid authoring tool to consider for this purpose is – Adobe Captivate. The tool began its humble beginning as a screen recording utility but reached its peak in two decades as one of the best authoring tools in the market today, incorporating all the needed features suitable for rapid Flash eLearning to HTML5 conversion.


Nutrition Online Training Courses For Personal Trainers Via Elearning

 

In the modern age where people are building awareness on the importance of staying fit and healthy, the demand for personal training and trainers has been increasing immensely. For personal trainers, it is pretty much their job to deliver services that get the best possible results for their clients. These services could range from providing the right kind of training regimen to guidance during training.

But the most important service that personal trainers should provide to the clients is the information on nutrition intake. Researches state that nutrition plays an important role in fitness than physical training itself. Hence it is critical for a Personal Trainer to understand the various nutritional requirements, diets to be followed, and supplements to be taken (if necessary).


Saturday, May 22, 2021

Quality Assurance in eLearning Development - A Complete Guide

 

In today’s competitive eLearning industry, maintaining quality of the eLearning courses really matters. In fact, the success of an elearning company depends on the quality of its deliverables in the form of elearning courses.

Quality Assurance (QA) is the most important phase and the final step in the eLearning development process that focusses on delivering an error free or bug free elearning course. In this blog we will go through the following topics to walk you through quality assurance process:

- What is Quality Assurance (QA)?
- Why Quality Assurance is so important?
- The Quality Assurance checklist


Friday, May 21, 2021

Flash To HTML5 Conversion - Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

 

During its golden era, Adobe Flash reigned in the eLearning industry helping content developers create great training courses with a wide range of interactive and animations. But, the usage of Flash has dwindled due to its inability to support the browsers and also due to the emergence of rapid authoring tools, which proved to be better alternatives for rapid content development. The final blow to Adobe Flash has come in the form of the advent of smartphones. Content developers and clients now want the courses to be played on these little gadgets, expecting to make online learning ‘anywhere, on any device.


Tips to Design AODA Compliance Courses in Articulate Storyline 360

 

AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) is an act created by the Ontario government with the objective to remove all barriers for activities and opportunities for disabled individuals by the year 2025.

It is important to ensure that the online training content you develop should be AODA compliant. The compliance eLearning content must be accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities such as blindness and low vision, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, cognitive impairment, mobility impairment, and speech impairment. The primary purpose of AODA compliance is to make the online training content easier for all users to view and listen to the content.