Innovative elearning can increase user engagement and improve the effectiveness of your elearning projects. Below we’ve curated five articles on the latest innovative ideas from leading elearning experts. For further inspiration, head over to Elearning Superstars - a great resource that curates some of the most innovative elearning examples from all over the world. Li Whybrow: Is your elearning boring? Spice it up with these 3 innovative elearning ideas Consider using new, innovative techniques when creating your next elearning course. In this article, Li shares her three innovative elearning ideas. Use these ideas to create elearning that that is more engaging and interactive for the user. Here are Li’s three innovative elearning tips Aleksandr Peterson: 4 innovative companies that gamified elearning Science has proven the short term, achievable goals and rewards process of games is perfect framework for learning new material. It’s no surprise to see major enterprises catching on with the gamification trend in elearning. In this article, Aleksandr explores four innovative companies that gamified their elearning. Read about the four innovative companies Asha Pandey: Top 5 tips for innovative elearning development In this article, Asha’s explains how to improve the "stickiness" of your elearning material through innovative learning strategies. The use of gamification and interactive videos are two of the five tips she’s talks about. Read Asha’s five tips for innovative elearning development Roz Bahrami: How do you infuse a culture of innovation? Innovative ideas flow naturally innovative environments. The culture of your organization may be effecting the level of innovative ideas your employees are producing. In this article, Roz discusses ways to infuse innovation into your organization’s culture. Learn how you can infuse a culture of innovation Sean Hougan: 2014’s top three innovations in elearning pedagogy   In this article, Sean takes a closer look at how Massive Open Social Learning, Learning Analytics and Blended Learning will influence the way we learn in the future. Read Sean’s top three innovations in elearning   Innovative elearning can increase user engagement & improve the effectiveness of courses.Click To Tweet   The post 5 elearning experts show you how to create innovative elearning that engages learners appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Elearning Superstars is a curated list of inspiring elearning examples, published every Tuesday. Subscribe to get weekly updates via email. This week we have some great elearning by Oxfam, Tesla Statue, and Codecademy. We’ve also curated a list of the six most popular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) examples. Showcase your elearning: Have you created a great piece of elearning that you’re really proud of? Showcase your elearning here to win awards and get published on Elearning Superstars. Oxfam: Wash emergency training (Silver Award Winner at Elearning Awards 2013) Tesla Statue: Creative video learning made for Kickstarter campaign (GoAnimate) Codecademy: Self-guided coding courses Top 6 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) examples: This is a collection of the most popular MOOC’s The post Elearning inspiration: Oxfam, Tesla Statue, Codecademy, Top MOOC examples appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

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    While Banking and Finance industries have been early adopters of eLearning, only in recent times is mLearning being considered. In this article, I will outline how mLearning can be one of the most meaningful training solutions for Banking and Financial Services. Additionally, I will share my insight on "learning as a continuum" and how eLearning or mLearning-based formal training can be effectively supplemented through Performance Support Tools (PSTs). Innovative Training Solutions For Banking And Financial Services: Featuring mLearning And Performance Support Tools In this rapidly changing world of technologies, banking and financial organizations have a continuous need to train and develop their employees on new processes, financial instruments, technologies, soft skills, and so on. Although the majority of them rely on instructor-led training, eLearning has become a key component of the overall training delivery. The trend is gradually extending to mLearning. Alongside this transition, there is a clear shift towards evaluating innovative learning strategies to improve efficacy of training. What are the typical training needs in Banks and Financial Services organizations? The training needs can be categorized into the following primary areas: Compliance Training. Both Banks and Financial Services organizations need to comply with many regulatory bodies (national and international), and they need to be trained on how to comply with these bodies. Employees also need to comply with the code of conduct that is specific to the organization. Process Training. This involves training of various processes in handling banking functions or a specific financial services delivery. Application Software Training. Financial software applications are the foundation for both Banking and Financial Services, and the employees need to be trained on these applications. Sales Training. This would include both products and solutions training. Soft Skills Training. In this industry, soft skill training is very important as the common public is their direct client. The representatives should not only be equipped with the right product knowledge but should also be able to discuss it correctly with the customers. Apart from the product knowledge, they should have excellent telephone etiquette, which includes listening skills, conversational ability, enthusiasm, energy, and so on. Induction and onboarding training. Where does mLearning find the right fit? Sales training is certainly the best fit wherein the products and solutions-related collateral can be made available to professionals on the go on tablets and smartphones. However, we are now seeing a clear shift in providing the other training programs through mLearning as well. These now include: Induction and onboarding training. Compliance training. You may refer to: Gamification Of Compliance Training Through A Serious Game Concept How To Create A Sticky Learning Experience In Compliance Training Soft Skills. How can innovative mLearning approaches be applied in training for Banks and Financial Services organizations? My personal experience shows that most Banks and Financial Services organizations tend to opt for more traditional approaches to offer learning. Yet, with changing learner demographics (includes Gen Y in significant numbers), these organizations need to factor for learning strategies that are different and are deployable on devices of the learners’ choice (tablets and smartphones). While information security aspects are critical to these organizations, today technology effectively supports managing mLearning roll-outs without compromising this crucial aspect. Moving forward, more and more organizations will support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in a secure environment leading to significant mLearning needs in this sector. Over last four years, we have created wide ranging mLearning solutions successfully. These include Instructional Design strategies featuring: Gamification. Story-based learning (with linear narrative). Story-based learning (with branched scenarios). Narrative through discussion featuring discussions and analysis of dynamics through different perspectives. Entire narrative based on Q&A. Case study/master scenarios featuring real-world situations and examples, also featuring guided exploration and active learning. Scenario-based learning (SBL) featuring multiple paths, examples, and non-examples. Branching scenarios and simulations. How can intervention of Performance Support Tools (PSTs) help Banks and Financial Services organizations? Today, organizations must look beyond formal training and look at approaches that create "learning as a continuum". Performance Support Tools are a great way to push the learning from mere "knowledge acquisition" to "knowledge application". These learning aids are available within the learners’ workflow and cause little or no disruption. These short nuggets can enhance the productivity, push the application of learning, and create a tangible gain for both employees and the organization. Banks and Financial Services companies can integrate Performance Support Tools in multiple ways: As a supplement to online training. As interesting learning aids to supplement instructor-led / virtual instructor-led training. As stand-alone knowledge assets/nuggets. I hope this article is useful in identifying how mLearning and Performance Support Tools can be innovative training solutions for Banking and Financial Services organizations and help them create a sticky learning experience for their employees. Also refer to: Gamification In Learning: Featuring Gains Through A Serious Game Concept Gamification In Learning Through An Avatar-based Serious Game Concept Story-Based Learning Strategy In A Course For Instructional Designers Learner Engagement: How To Create Effective Assessment Strategies The post Innovative Training Solutions For Banking And Financial Services appeared first on EI Design.

48 Shared Your company is big into mobile learning and e-courses that offer employees the opportunity to take their game to the next level using all the latest technology. You’ve got PowerPoint down to a science and know how to use PowerPoint converters to create great slideshows, presentations, and independent learning modules. You’ve even learned a few tricks of the trade, like how to integrate multimedia into your lessons and link to different PowerPoint slides. There’s just one problem: You’re using the same old Clip Art images you’ve been relying on for the last 20 years, and it’s no longer cutting the mustard. Listen, we get it. Clip Art is free, it’s easy, and you’re already totally familiar with it. Change is hard. And so on and so forth. But your employees want to see forward movement — and presentations that don’t look like they’re from the early ‘90s.Read more »

12 Shared This July, 2015, we analyzed the best free apps that allow you to view PowerPoint on iPad. For this comparison, we examined four market leaders: iSpring Present appPowerPoint iPad app by MicrosoftSlideShare app by LinkedInSlideShark app by BrainsharkAll these solutions let you view and save PowerPoint presentations on an Apple tablet, while providing a variety of other extra features for free.Read more »

10 Shared In order to keep our clients tuned in and circumvent some common questions, every so often we choose the most interesting case that our Support Team has resolved. We believe that it will help iSpringers surmount some of the obstacles that may come up while authoring. Today we discovered a case from Julia Stolyarova, senior technical support engineer: Client uses: iSpring Pro 7 Case description: Client needed to customize the presentation player so that its skin incorporates with the style and design of her website. Issue: In order to create the player, she contacted a third party organization. As a result, the player was saved in a different format from the one that can be used for iSpring projects. Case solution: Our technical specialist resolved the issue via a remote session. It took one business day to recover the original version of the custom player. The player template was saved in a native format for future use. Read more »

6 Shared APA Style is a set of rules for publishing scientific papers at the highest level of clarity and accessibility. You can cite a PowerPoint presentation in another document using APA Style, or you can use APA citations within an actual PowerPoint presentation. Citing a PowerPoint presentation in another document is easy. However, the APA Manual (6th Edition) has nothing to say about placing APA citations in PowerPoint presentations. Read on and see how to do both.Read more »