Why eLearning is Popular - Video

Watch the video about last week's article and understand why eLearning is so popular.
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Why eLearning is Popular

Whether you own a small business or a very large one, you probably realise how important it is to educate your most valuable company asset - your employees.
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Costs Involved in eLearning - Infographic

Here's an infographic outlining the factors that have an influence over the costs involved in an eLearning Project.
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Costs Involved in eLearning - Part 2

The costs involved to create eLearning are varied so on average here are some factors that tip the scales in one direction or another. Part 1: Factors 3, 4 and 5
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Costs Involved in eLearning - Part 1

The costs involved to create eLearning are varied so on average here are some factors that tip the scales in one direction or another. Part 1: Factors 1 and 2
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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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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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Why Make the Move to eLearning?

As a company starts to grow and expand with branches across different regions, training becomes more difficult. eLearning is the solution.
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The Move to eLearning - Interactive

eLearning can mean many different things today. Essentially it is any learning which is enhanced by electronic (online) communications systems. eLearning is more than just an online course.
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Problems with ICT implementation for eLearning

Information and communications technologies are playing a vital role in our world by making information and education democratised. As with any field, ICT today has its share of problems too.
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Compiling Your Own Online Course: A Step-by-Step Guide

This article discusses the necessary steps to take when compiling your own online course.
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Online Courses as Content Marketing

This article discusses the benefits of creating industry specific online courses and using them as part of your content marketing strategy.
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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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eLearning Technology – The Pace of Learning

As individuals there are a variety of factors that influence our ability to understand concepts and these factors, whether it is poor attention span or unforeseen absenteeism, will influence our learning progress. Progress happens in time. To manage progress, we must manage the time that is granted to learners to make such progress. There are tools belonging to the eLearning methodology that accommodates individual learners in learning at their own pace.
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The Power of Feedback in eLearning

Many studies on feedback communication have focussed around feedback provided to the messenger by the audience. This article is focussed on the feedback provided by the messenger, after the audience has responded to the original message.
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eLearning Management: Effective Video Lectures

The most important component of an online course has to be the video lectures. A sophisticated learning management system (LMS) will incorporate video lectures into course modules so that it can easily be viewed and downloaded to keep. Carefully placed within the learning path of the LMS, video lectures can serve as introductory content to a given topic, explanatory content and/or summary content and should function in collaboration with reading materials, quizzes and assignments. The video lecture has the important task of binding all learning components together in a comprehensive manner.
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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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The Flipped Classroom - Blending eLearning with a Modern Classroom

Bringing together the best of both worlds, the Flipped Classroom is a revolution in its own right. It is not a new pedagogy on its own entirely, but rather an approach to education which marries online learning with interactive experiential learning.
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eLearning Advances - Learning Analytics and Content Curation

Technological innovations are focussed on turning the Elearning experience into one that is completely learner orientated; supporting the needs and requirements of individual learners.
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Online Education and the State of the University

How does online learning affect the state of the university? Is the university immune to technological disruption? And what is online learning doing to the way in which we understand the concept of knowledge?
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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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