Brain surgery is incredibly hard and everyone knows it. eLearning design—let’s face it—is not brain surgery. It’s worse. It’s just a little more difficult than most people realize. No one just gives brain surgery “a try” without the right education and experience, but just about everyone who has ever been in a classroom and had [...]

Six years after starting the blog that became this magazine, learning and development maven B.J. Schone has founded HelpMeShine. I talked with B.J. to get all the details about his new venture and how users can benefit from this innovative tool. HelpMeShine has the potential to change the way corporations execute performance reviews, and in [...]

Occasionally a colleague or customer asks, “Where do you come up with such creative designs?” After basking in the compliment for a few moments, I disappoint them with an honest answer: “I steal them, mostly.” They’re disappointed because they have the wrong idea about what creativity is all about. They have a fuzzy notion of [...]

Reading this, you likely have the crazy gene I believe in, having no clinical evidence of such DNA. If you don’t sport that lovely mythical chromosome, please comment below so we can document opinions that my clock’s cuckoo. Brainstorm No. 47J: Don’t track training. Instead of hoarding training certificates and quiz scores in a bloated LMS, [...]

We love when training wins. eLearning Weekly is searching for success stories from trainers and training companies. We found a good story from ANCILE Solutions. I read their case study and then set up a call with Vanessa Smith, who played a pivotal role working with a utility company wanting to improve its call center. [...]

We want to know about you and your company so we can write about your success stories here on eLearning Weekly Magazine. You can get featured by completing our form here. We noticed many entrepreneurs reading our articles and started finding ways to serve their needs. We are entrepreneurs too, and business development advice is a welcome [...]

We’ve already made a significant investment, so we’re going to stick with it. I hear these arguments often from companies who have spent boat loads of money on some overpriced, clunky Learning Management System. Really, they have spent lots of dollars and probably way too much time using the tool to load users and courses. [...]

If the IT department had a say in the matter, there would be nothing new implemented. Increasingly, all people hear from IT is: NO. How did this happen? IT departments went from enabling productivity to stifling growth for the sake of security, mostly. You could argue it’s to save their own jobs. Now, trainers, in [...]

After a walk down the The 4-Hour Work Week alley, many jump into the Google Olympics for the best/cheapest virtual assistant service providers. Guilty? The internet is plagued with many MagicJack-infested work centers located in economically convenient yet mistrustful corners of the developing world. When the standard HTML studded 2003 looking websites don’t convince you [...]

There are some familiar tools in Lectora® e-Learning software that can be used creatively to create not-so common results. Lectora features and functionality can be used in all different ways to maximize the power of the software during the development phases, and consequently, add pizzazz to your next e-Learning course or training. Use these 3 [...]