32 Shared So you’ve put the finishing touches on a course and published it to an LMS. But the statistics are showing you that the course isn’t quite as effective as you had hoped. Some learners aren’t completing the course; some aren’t spending enough time on each slide; some are spending too much time! Besides all that, you’re having a hard time gauging the overall results of the training, because there’s no convenient built-in assessments or feedback opportunities. Read more »

25 Shared Training courses have evolved over the years - we no longer need chalkboards and No. 2 pencils. For online trainers it is a completely new approach, but this does not mean you have to leave all the old ways behind. Here are some tips to help you spruce up your course and engage your learners in a new and creative way. Trade in your dry erase markers for a mouse or stylus. Use your online training software’s annotation tools to mark up your own presentation or try a digital whiteboard like Talkboard, which is a free, collaborative drawing and writing pad. Invite e-Learners to join your Talkboard and brainstorm together in real-time, or ask them to share their own screens during your presentation to showcase their mobile work. Read more »

26 Shared iSpring’s engineers are continuing the march of progress, testing the hottest LMSs for compatibility with our authoring tools. The next stop on our journey is Docebo LMS, which provides excellent support for SCORM 1.2/2004, AICC and Tin Can/xAPI. Naturally, iSpring’s authoring tools generate content for all those standards, so with iSpring and Docebo, you have the luxury of choice. Docebo has been ranked in the world’s Top 10 for SaaS elearning solutions providers, and in the Top 3 for B2B LMSs. Docebo is generally regarded as one of the industry’s most comprehensive solutions for training management, and has been chosen by some of the world’s most respected companies to achieve operational efficiency. Read more »

37 Shared This year, mLearnCon was hosted in Austin, TX, with a turnout of over 1,000 e-Learning professionals from around the world. We had a few hundred visitors to our booth, all curious about how iSpring products could accelerate their mLearning. Several iSpring customers swang by to testify about their positive experience with us, and as always, everybody enjoyed our iSpring totes and nesting dolls. Read more »

58 Shared Self-directed learning, or SDL, brings many gains to a company, which is why it is becoming so popular among businesses large and small. If you want a higher level of self-direction among your employees, consider that most workplace change starts at a cultural level. Instead of handing down mandates from above, instill a wide variety of opportunities for self-directed learning at every level of your workforce. Because people learn in different ways and are fired by different pursuits, giving lots of choice encourages better and fuller learning. Plus, it’s really in the spirit of self-direction. Here are seven ideas to get you started.Read more »

0 Shared Mark Wilcock is a Learning Technology Development (LTD) officer at the prestigious Edge Hill University in northwestern England. In January 2014, he and the LTD team at Edge Hill began to experiment with iSpring authoring tools as a way to aid both faculty and students in their online/mobile learning experience. The results were so encouraging that they launched an "early adopters project", including a webinar in July of that same year, which resulted in dozens of faculty and staff using iSpring as part of the project. Read more »

14 Shared We’ve just completed an update to iSpring QuizMaker which greatly enhances your sharing capabilities. Now, you can publish your quizzes directly to iSpring Cloud hosting and sharing platform with a single click from the QuizMaker interface! What’s iSpring Cloud? iSpring Cloud is your perfect solution for sharing content on any device fast and easy, with crystal-clear quality. You can instantly distribute your presentations and quizzes via shortlink, email, and social media, or even embed them on a website or blog. It has some built-in tracking features which are great for presentations, but you can also use QuizMaker’s built-in reporting capabilities to send detailed results to email or a server.Read more »

25 Shared Mark Wilcock is a Learning Technology Development (LTD) officer at the prestigious Edge Hill University in northwestern England. In January 2014, he and the LTD team at Edge Hill began to experiment with iSpring authoring tools as a way to aid both faculty and students in their online/mobile learning experience. The results were so encouraging that they launched an early adopters project, including a webinar in July of that same year, which resulted in dozens of faculty and staff using iSpring as part of the project. The early adopters project was completed in early 2015, and three participants were chosen to present video case studies, where they would share their experiences using iSpring. As of last month, all the interviews have been completed, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. Read more »

17 Shared If you’re like many modern companies today, you probably use PowerPoint to a range of ends. One of the best and most effective is as a learning tool for your employees. Perhaps you use it in a group setting, where a leader lectures to listeners with the aid of slides, or maybe you employ it to enable self-directed learning. Whatever the case, upping the engagement level of your PowerPoint Presentations can significantly increase the amount of learning that takes place. That being said, most people assume that making PowerPoint more interesting involves super-fancy graphics or crazy slide structures that would take a genius to unravel … not to mention put together. Luckily, that’s not the case! Below we offer 10 simple strategies for making presentations more interesting, more accessible and more learning-oriented. Read more »

14 Shared Maggie Webster is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies from the Faculty of Education. Find out how iSpring "motivated [her] to be more creative in [her] teaching" with its familiar PowerPoint interface and versatile toolkit: A: My name is Maggie Webster, I’m a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University, and I teach a variety of programs, but mainly religious education and religious studies. I’m also a year leader for third-year part-timers; a lot of those trainees tend to be mature and part-time, so they do a lot of distance stuff, and they also come into university once a week. So, I have a selection of students, some of them mature, some of them who are undergraduates who are traditionally 18, etc., and they all have varying competencies with technology, and also various interests with it. So, I’m trying to reach a broad range of people when I’m teaching, if I can.Read more »