My 1.5-year-old baby jumped in excitement and clapped her hands in glee! What was the excitement all about? She had just learnt a new nursery rhyme, Baa Baa Black Sheep! She was always thrilled to learn new things-to scribble with a crayon, to learn dance steps, to learn words and to learn new ways of being naughty! I looked at her and being a Learning and Development professional, wistfully thought of the learners in my classroom training, "I wish each one of my students was

Last week I discussed one of the great instructor led programs we offer here at Pathways Training & eLearning, and this week I was intending to provide few details of some of the popular eLearning courses we offer. However, first I thought perhaps I could provide a more detailed explanation or definition for eLearning to ensure we all share the same understanding. Often when completing a needs analysis for a development project I am asked to include elements of eLearning. W

It is always a good idea to have a clear process when you want to develop something both effectively and accurately. Of course, there are different approaches to how you can tackle the development of an eLearning module, but through a series of posts, we will discuss what we have found here at Pathways, to be a best practice for programming eLearning modules. Storyboarding This part is essential, and builds the foundation of a successful eLearning module. Just like algorithms

The month of January is often filled with goal setting; individuals setting personal and professional goals and companies determining their business goals for the year. Creating goals requires reflecting on where you currently are, where you want to be and how you are going to get there. Most companies will establish a learning and development plan as a component of a larger business goal. This is also an ideal time to revisit the capability of your Learning Management Syste

More often than not, I have been tasked to convert eLearning modules to newer versions of different authoring tools. In fact, if you have repeat clients (like in our case at Pathways), you may find yourself in this situation very often, in which clients ask you to update modules to newer versions and conform the functionality to the new tools offered by the software. But what happens when, for some reason, you must downgrade an eLearning module to an older version of an autho

It is quite common for large, global organizations to have elearning modules that must be delivered company-wide. This is because for many companies, their success relies upon clients receiving the same quality of service regardless of where they are located in the world. When delivering elearning that is unique to a company it needs to have a consistent message that is understood by employees and nothing is “lost in translation”. Reaching learning and business objectives sho

There have been times when, as a company, we have faced very difficult challenges when programming eLearning modules, and it’s almost never because of our lack of skills or experience, but because the timelines we are given for the development of a module is way too reduced compared to its requirements. Of course, our first go-to plan to comply with the times of the project, is to pull all-nighters or use multiple resources, hoping for the best and that Murphy’s law doesn’t a

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Let’s continue from where we left off on the previous post, but first let’s do a quick recap on things we have already discussed regarding translation of eLearning modules: Account for space, meaning that always keep in mind what languages is the module going to be translated into, when designing the layout Export the text by using the feature provided in Storyline And don’t change the formatting of the exported text, to avoid any undesired issues when reimporting the transla

Whatever you are training for, or how you are doing it, it’s key to sustain what your learners have learned. Here are some key points to consider when trying to keep training alive: Personal motivation – training should help employees solve issues that they have to deal with on a daily basis. Make sure you give them the opportunity to use their new skills in the first few weeks so they can experience some early wins. Refreshers – job aids, elearning or classroom based trainin

It is always a good idea to have a clear process when you want to develop something both effectively and accurately. Of course, there are different approaches to how you can tackle the development of an eLearning module, but through a series of posts, we will discuss what we have found here at Pathways, to be a best practice for programming eLearning modules. In part 1, we will cover the programming part of the eLearning modules. On a later post (part 2), we will cover the QA