When designing and developing eLearning you want to make sure that your digital training is as intuitive and interactive as possible to provide the best user experience for your learners. Below are some things you can do to make your eLearning more engaging for your learners. 1. Periodic Knowledge Checks One thing you can do to make your eLearning and digital training more engaging is to include Knowledge Checks at regular intervals throughout your course (e.g. at the end of

As we continue working on our Virtual Reality project, we keep discovering and figuring out how to add or modify functionality that in a regular eLearning module would be otherwise very standard and easy to do. More specifically and something that we have been trying to add to our module in the past few days, is a functionality to track progress of the questions answered throughout the module. The first thing to notice is that, as you add hotspots on screen and questions tied

Over the past few years we have seen a huge rise in the number of people taking online learning and digital training. As more and more people become familiar with taking eLearning and digital training online you should carefully consider how you could use eLearning as part of your learning strategy. Below are some of the benefits you could get by including eLearning in your learning and development strategy. 1. Widely Accessible One benefit of using eLearning is that it is ve

2021 was a year that went by very quickly, from the uncertainty of 2020 to a more stable, streamlined, remote workflow that allowed us to work on and finish quite a large number of projects. Pathways was also acquired by Pluribus Technologies, which will give a much bigger platform to expand our client base and geographic reach. From a personal point of view, I also accomplished a few goals, the most important of which is the fact that I studied and received a certification i

When developing eLearning and digital training it is important that you thoroughly test your courses to ensure everything works as expected and learners have a positive user experience. Below are some important things you should check when testing your eLearning courses. 1. Text synchronisation When developing eLearning you most likely include some form of audio narration in your slides. When adding audio narration, you may synchronise on-screen elements such as text an

When creating eLearning and digital training text will be one of the main things you will use to create your courses, however, when using text there are some best practices to consider. Below are some best practices to think about when using text in your eLearning course. 1. Font Style Choosing the type of font to use in your eLearning course is something you should think about carefully as it is something that will be seen throughout your course. When choosing a font,

Once you have designed and developed your eLearning course you will need a way for your learners to access your training. One way you can do this is by using an LMS or Learning Management System. Below are some benefits of using a LMS to host your eLearning courses. 1. Provides online access After you have created a storyboard, designed, developed, and published your eLearning course you need to host it somewhere so that your learners are able to access it online. A Learning

When developing eLearning you will most likely use authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, however, there are a number of things you can use in addition to traditional eLearning to make it more engaging and interactive for your learners. 1. VR VR or Virtual Reality is a type of technology that you could utilise as part of your learning strategy. VR allows learners to access and interact with a virtual environment by using a headset. To create a VR course, you need to ca

Virtual Reality (VR) is a concept that is not new in the world of eLearning and is something that can provide you and your learners a wide variety of benefits in terms of interactivity, engagement and knowledge retention. Below are some of the benefits that you could be taking advantage of by including VR as part of your learning strategy. 1. Simulate real life tasks One of the biggest benefits of using VR to create your next eLearning course is that it provides a level of im

Nowadays, it is very common to have a decentralized suite of tools that will help us on our daily functions at our jobs. In our eLearning space, we need tools to develop eLearning modules, edit photos, create or edit vectors, and also edit audios and videos. For this reason, we have installed on our computers, a large number of programs that will help us perform all these tasks on a daily basis. But not only that, there are also other platforms where we can access any type of

While filming for the new Pathways & ACCES Virtual Reality health and safety course, a lot of lessons, tips and tricks were learned that you could use when creating your own VR course. Below are some things we learned that you should keep in mind when developing your own VR course. 1. People in view To capture videos and images for a VR course you need to use a 360 degree camera, and unlike a regular camera a 360 camera captures everything around you in a 360 degree view. Thi

As excited as we are about using our GoPro Max camera to film 360 videos, and editing them in Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects, there is one special thing we need to consider before getting to the editing stage of a project. As it turns out, the videos recorded in this camera, when set in 360 mode, have a resolution of 5.6K (5376 x 2688 pixels) which is much larger than the resolution used by standard computers in Full HD. To put it into perspective, let’s look at the fo

As mentioned in our previous blogs Pathways Training & eLearning have recently worked with ACCES Employment to develop a brand new Virtual Reality health and safety course for students in the trades. Part of creating a VR course is capturing 360 images and video footage, and when you go out to your filming location there are several important things you should consider such as: 1. Breaking the areas into zones If the area you are capturing 360 images and videos is large one t

One of the key aspects of achieving full immersion in virtual reality, whether it is on a game or an eLearning module (and even just 360 images), is to provide the user with an environment where they can turn around and see different things to interact with. This might sound like something simple to do, but there is a lot of things involved in making this happen. We are just going to focus on the process of generating the images that cover every point of view in the virtual e

Last week Pathways Training & eLearning worked with ACCES Employment to develop a brand new Virtual Reality course that teaches students about workplace health and safety hazards while on a work site. When developing a Virtual Reality course there are a number of things you should consider to ensure your VR filming goes as smoothly as possible: 1. Have a checklist When developing a VR course you will most likely be filming video and taking images in a variety of locations e.g

Knowledge checks questions are questions which are asked to a learners periodically throughout an eLearning course and tests the learners on what they have just learned. Using knowledge check questions can bring a number of benefits including increasing learner engagement and knowledge retention, however, there are a number of things you should consider when including knowledge check questions, below are some of these things. 1. Relevant to content When adding knowledge chec

One of the things that I found interesting when I started working in eLearning modules here in Ontario (and I believe this is the case for most companies across Canada that work at national level), is that most of the modules we develop, probably around 70%, need to be developed in both English and French. Being a company based in Toronto, the first language we use to storyboard and develop the first version of the eLearning module, is English, and then once everything is app

With most of our jobs and functions moving to online settings, it is always daunting for employers to just make all their information on the web, especially if this information is highly confidential. Just as we have witnessed at Pathways, many companies are turning to companies like ours to create training and help them educate their employees on things they should and shouldn’t do to protect their information (not just corporate information, but also personal information).

Traditional eLearning typically involves using audio, text, images and videos to teach your learners about a speicifc subject, however there are a number of things you can do to expand your eLearning courses beyond traditional eLearning. Below are some things you could implement in your next eLeanring course. 1. Branching Scenarios Branching scenarios can be one way you can expand your eLearning course. A branching secnario involves presenting the learner with a secenario or

When developing your next eLearning course, you want to make sure its as interactive and engaging as possible for your learners. Below are some things you can do to increase engagement and interactivity in your courses. 1. Using Animations One quick and effective way to make your eLearning courses more engaging is to add animations to the on-screen elements of your slides. When using eLearning authoring tools such as Storyline you can easily apply animations by clicking on an