Many corporations, government organizations and institutions who provide predominantly classroom training to employees have now been forced to create eLearning and online training modules unexpectedly, in the last month given COVID-19. To help any organization who is new to eLearning, here are a few tips on what software to use to develop your eLearning, based on our 14 years of experience in this industry. There are many great authoring tools that can be used to create eLea

In my many years of experience and the number of eLearning modules that I have completed for clients and their online training initiatives, the most common part of the process in developing these modules, is to receive feedback from the client and action those changes. This feedback goes from content changes (either text or images), voiceover changes, animations and even programming changes (sometimes we even need to redo parts of the eLearning modules due to changes in scope

Amidst the ongoing discussions about ‘what the future will bring’ post COVID-19, I’ve naturally been thinking about what the future of learning will look like. - Will classroom training be a thing of the past? - Will eLearning become more creative and less ‘objective’-driven? - Will immerging technologies finally gain a foothold as primary learning tools? The short answer is (of course) no one knows. But we can certainly plan for what will likely happen and we can hope for wh

Given the global pandemic, many not-for-profit organizations and charities are finding that the classroom training they use to provide, can no longer be delivered given the current situation with COVID-19. As an experienced Canadian eLearning company with over 14 years of experience, Pathways has been offering significantly discounted rates to any charities and not-for-profit organizations who need help moving classroom-based training to eLearning or online training quickly.

More often than not, I have had the opportunity to program in Articulate Storyline, different kind of activities that help the learners assess their knowledge of the topic at any point throughout the eLearning module. One of those activities, that I actually find very common in online training, is the matching activity, where you need to pair usually a definition with the correct term, or to give you a more specific example, the name of a car component with the correct pictur

I love reading business books – but I don’t often have the time. Like everyone else in the world, this pandemic has given me extra time to catch up on my reading (and my house cleaning for that manner). My mother who is an avid book reader, handed me Michelle Obama’s book Becoming. It was a book that I quite frankly wouldn’t have picked for myself, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Michelle Obama’s story is one of hard work and hope, and the belief that with education and

In my years of experience as an eLearning developer, I have come across several authoring tools that have helped me out in a lot of eLearning projects, but I have always wondered, is one of those tools better than the others in all or most of its features? When I first started working in the eLearning field, most of the work that I did was developed using Adobe Flash, as I remember having several advantages to working with it: Animation flexibility: since it was all controlle

As many teachers and corporations are now facing the unprecedented challenge of having to teach online (a situation many educators and corporate trainers have resisted for years and never thought they would have to do), I have a few tips for those who are new to online learning based on my own personal experiences as a result of having facilitated and developed online training sessions and eLearning for many years. Here are the two tips, that I believe are critical to effecti

As huge numbers of people are working and learning from home, eLearning provides an excellent opportunity to train your employees in a safe and effective way. Typically, learners take eLearning on their own and in a time and place of their choosing, which means they do not have someone to directly turn to if they get stuck. As a result, ensuring that your eLearning is intuitive and easy to use is more important than ever. Below are some things to consider when so that you can

While many of us are now taking eLearning and digital training from home and other locations it is important to consider that this training might be taken on a wide variety of devices. In the past eLearning was primarily taken on laptops and PCs but now could also be taken on laptops, smartphones or tablets. Below are some things to consider when developing eLearning and digital training for a variety of devices. 1. Offline As learners are now taking eLearning from a variety

In recent weeks, we had a request from a client to report some very specific interactions that were developed in Storyline, them being several text fields that the learner has to fill out before completing the course. These interactions didn’t need to be scored, since they worked more as a survey than a test, but the answers still needed to be tracked on the client’s LMS. How did we do it? We kept in mind several factors and tried different approaches to solve this request by

As a result of COVID-19 we are seeing a huge push towards both a working from home and learning from home environment. As social distancing and other measure are put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 eLearning and digital training is more important than ever. When compared to classroom training both in an educational and corporate environment, eLearning can have huge benefits in ensuring employees and students are continually learning and kept safe. Below are some ad