May - 2020

May 28, 2020
2 min

Tips to customizing your whiteboard animations

With these uncertain times, when all our day to day activities have been modified, the new “normal” (hopefully temporarily) is based on carrying out most of our activities over the internet, such us meetings, sharing of documents, and learning sessions. Let’s remember that eLearning has been around for a long time now, but with this pandemic happening, a lot of our clients have turn to making most of their training material into eLearning components. Of course, since there is

May 26, 2020
1 min

Your LMS features for remote working

Now that teleconferences and distanced learning are the new normal, you should consider if you have been using your learning management system (LMS) to its fullest extent. An LMS can do so much more than hosting elearning courses and tracking your audience’s learning data. Most LMSs already have social interaction capabilities – for your learners to interact in real time with instructors, and other participants. Social learning functions have been built into LMSs even before

May 26, 2020
3 min

Bad eLearning - The Kids Are Not Okay!

I have a problem with my son…he is bored. He has gone from playing competitive soccer 7 days a week and to having school 5 days a week, to doing almost nothing. Although school technically runs until the end of June, given the pandemic (and the labour strike before that), he has had almost no quality schooling this year. His teachers are now putting some course work on Google Classroom (worksheets that are supposed to be filled-in), but there is little accountability for the

May 20, 2020
4 min

Death of Full-time Corporate Learning and the Rise of eLearning Vendors and Freelancers Given COVID

This week I felt gutted to learn of a friend, whose restaurant (a family run business and a Toronto stable in little Italy for over 60 years) has now been forced to permanently shut-down as a result of COVID-19. While some industries have been ravaged others have been forced into the spot-light as a result of the circumstances, and on-line learning is one of them. At Pathways Training and eLearning, we are in a different situation, as we feel blessed to have both many of our

May 14, 2020
2 min

What If The Customer Isn't 'Right'?

One of the greatest challenges any business can face, is making the decision to say ‘no’ to a customer. Most of us know the old adage, “the customer is always right” – and we are also aware that they aren’t (really) “always right” – but rather, explaining to that customer why they are wrong is typically bad for business. This is all well and good for a product return, invoice discrepancy or service issue; but what about when the problem lies between two divergent opinions reg

May 14, 2020
3 min

Online Learning Can Be So Much More than a Zoom Call - Here is a Great Example

Given COVID-19, many organizations are rapidly moving to put their training online and many schools, colleges and universities are also doing the same. In a situation, where there is not a lot of time for advanced planning, we are seeing a wide range of teaching methods and approaches to how both teachers and facilitators provide online learning. As over 1.8 billion kids were impacted globally with school closures happening in March 2020, the move to online learning has happe

May 4, 2020
2 min

Programming Tips: How to easily create the transcript of an audio file

I have been working on an interesting eLearning project as of late, and I say this because of the challenges that were present right at the beginning of the programming phase. In this project, our client has asked us to revamp online training material that was developed over a decade ago using Adobe Captivate, however, the challenge began when we were informed that the source files (.cptx files) have disappeared since the modules were initially developed. For the most part, t

May 4, 2020
2 min

Will the Pandemic Increase Adoption of eLearning, Online Learning and New Training Technologies?

I do not post a lot on social media. It’s not because I am averse to it, I actually quite enjoy looking at social media to see what the rest of the world is doing. As all of us are stuck at home, it has become an increasingly easy way to understand the sentiment of the rest of the world and current popular thoughts and trends (…like how to make sour dough bread). I responded yesterday to a LinkedIn post, that asked the question “Do you think virtual reality will be adopted mo

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