Why eLearning adoption is so difficult

eLearning adoption – as easy as 1, 2, 3! Or is it? With the many learning styles and options available for online learning, eLearning adoption should be a simple process – yet somehow it never seems to be.
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What is an LMS? - Video

Watch this animated video to learn what an LMS (learning management system) is, and why you might need one for your eLearning.
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What is an LMS?

Before we get too technical, let's go back and address the fundamentals: what is an LMS (Learning Management System) and why do you even need one?
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Processes in eLearning Development - Interactive

The eLearning Development Process has many phases to it and is not as simple as many might think. Try this interactive eLearning demo to discover all the phases.
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What People Love & Hate About eLearning - Interactive

What do People Love & Hate About eLearning? Try this interactive learning demo to find out.
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LMS Benefits for Your Business - Infographic

Learning Management Systems (LMS) provide a wide range of benefits for businesses of all sizes and in all fields. Your online training and eLearning is organised within LMS so that tracking and recording can take place of training activities.
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LMS for Your Business

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are organising frameworks for online training. LMS provide a wide range of benefits for businesses of all sizes. eLearning is organised within LMS so that tracking and recording can take place of training activities.
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eLearning Development Process

eLearning Development Process otherwise known as ADDIE, and the most commonly used instructional design model in some form or another. If you are a client or a developer it’s useful to memorise this little acronym to know what’s happening during the development of an eLearning project.
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Classroom-Based Training to Digital eLearning

With travel expenses inflating and the budgets for it increasingly being seen as an unnecessary expense in a connected world, eLearning serves to answer the issues of face-to-face, classroom-based, traditional, instructor lead learning.
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Switching LMS providers: 3 – Maximising your ROI

The final part of this blog series on switching LMSs draws to a close by giving you some insights on how to maximise your ROI.
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Switching LMS Providers: 2 – Process of Switching

This three part series looks at the broader issues involved in switching Learning Management Systems (LMSs). In Part 2 we look at the process of switching, and how to select a new LMS for your organisation.
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Switching LMS Providers: 1 – Identifying Reasons to Switch

This is a guide for companies that already have a Learning Management Systems (LMS) in place and are looking to switch. Here are the broader issues involved in switching LMS...
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The Human Factor in LMS Implementation

When deciding whether or not to implement a technology in favour of an old, traditional, face-to-face system of training, many considerations must be taken into account to ensure that change management will be worth the effort of the change.
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The Pitfalls to Using Open-Source Learning Management Systems

Think twice before settling for a Learning Management system that is open source and free to download at the click of a button. When we see the word open-source, we assume that we are scoring a free LMS that we can use and customise with various Plug-Ins, but nothing in life is free, and even software freely available comes at a price. An Open source LMS is not a no-compromise no-worries alternative to non-free-source systems.
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Creating a Corporate Culture of Lifelong Learning

Focusing on a group of corporate employees, whether it is a small company, a department within a company or a large enterprise, I would like to argue that a reputable culture of Lifelong Learning can be established and maintained.
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MOOCs: Making Education a Responsibility Irrespective of Social Status

Any new technology replacing another is socially disruptive for better or for worse, more accurately, for better AND for worse. Free quality education, accessible by anyone anywhere is bound to have great social implications, especially since education has been so closely associated with the term “elite”. But if something shifts, tremendously, something else must take up the space left behind. We no longer have to stand in line, waiting to reach the soup lady, because that is our only dinner option. No, the line is gone and every person is provided an entire buffet. It is now up to us to dish up. MOOCs are busy blurring the cracks of social dividedness, and the value of one’s own education is becoming nothing short of a personal responsibility.
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Online Education in SA Part 2: Training for Teachers

The benefits to be reaped from online learning pertain to teachers just as much as it pertains to learners. The second part of my interview with Karen Walstra, from Karen Walstra Consulting, concerned the topic of teaching and technology.
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Online Education in SA Part 1: Textbook versus eBook

Sound Idea interviews Karen Walsta, Educational Consultant, to find out more about online education in the South African context
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eLearning Explodes!

The new method of education and training has spread across the globe like a wild fire, scorching traditional learning methods in the process. eLearning is completely changing the landscape of education as we know it.
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