WE ARE IN THE WORLD’S TOP 10 ELEARNING COMPANIES NOW! We take this opportunity to share our joy and excitement to be ranked second in eLearning Industry’s global listing of Top 10 eLearning Content Development Companies for 2015. This ranking reflects the recognition of the effort that we have put in for over a decade in creating learning and performance solutions for our customers. Since inception in Feb’2002, our focus has been on "Energising Learning" and we have successfully sustained this through our Innovative learning design approaches. Our distinctive approaches keep learners intrigued and engaged. In addition, our learning strategies ensure that learners walk away from our courses with a clear sense of time well spent and a feeling of "accomplishment". This is a big step towards realisation of our Vision 2017, which marks the completion of our 15 years in business, pushing our goals to the next level. We are super excited to share this great news and look forward to an opportunity to work with you soon. The post Top 10 Customer Newsletter Oct2015 appeared first on EI Design.

Planning Migration of Legacy Courses to HTML5 You have decided to adopt mLearning (or mobile learning) and are ready to move your legacy courses to HTML5. Obviously, this involves a significant budget and you want to be certain that you have chosen the most efficient approach to migrate your legacy courses to HTML5. In this Newsletter, we share insights on: Understanding the power of HTML5 technology as well its challenges: Take a look at tips that you can use as you plan the migration of your Flash to HTML5. What is the right way to convert legacy courses into HTML5: Take a look at case studies that show successful conversions and how you could use some of these best practices. How To Convert Legacy Courses Into HTML5 The Right Way In this article, we are featuring two case studies that reflect dynamics that will resonate with most organizations and will provide the pointers on what approaches will help you design an efficient and effective migration strategy and convert legacy courses into HTML5 the right way. Read the article The post Top 10 Prospects Newsletter Oct2015 appeared first on EI Design.

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest" - Benjamin Franklin In the competitive workspace, it is imperative to continuously invest on learning so that we can quickly adapt to changing dynamics and changing expectations. With technological advancement, the world today has diverse sources and accesses to information. However, authenticity of information remains a concern. Our ProductLine "inSight" is an initiative intended to offer online courses for learning professionals to equip them with tools that will help them build a successful career. With this ammunition, they can quickly learn to apply the training material on the job, thereby gaining an edge over others. ProductLineinSight Suite #1 Our core expertise is Instructional Design. We have converted our expertise of Learning Strategy creation over the last decade into 15 online courses on Instructional Design. Through these courses, we aim to bridge the gap between Theory and its Application. These courses are available on OpenSesame portal and on Apple AppStore as Apps under the Instructional Design category. We stand for "Energising Learning". Have a joyful learning experience as you explore our online courses. Read MoreThe post Newsletter Dec2014 [InSight Newsletter] appeared first on EI Design.

Performance Enhancement Today, organisations seek higher Return on Investments (ROI) on formal training. They also realise that often training alone is not enough to improve performance. This is exactly where our enhanced services portfolio featuring specially designed Performance Support Solutions fits in. Through them, we assist transforming learners’ acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge. Performance Support Tools (PSTs) Did you know that only about 10% of learning happens with formal training? This is why training alone is not enough for better performance. Performance Support Tools, in addition to reiterating the highlights of the training are designed for learners to apply the learning in the context of the nature of their job. The PSTs that we have designed have resulted in higher ROI for our customers re-affirming our capabilities to ensure the efficacy of learning as well as improved predictability on the ROI. Do contact us if you would like to know more about these success stories and how we could create a few for you. Read More Our Recent Webinars As part of our knowledge sharing plan, we have walked our partners and prospects through our research, focus areas and learning in the Nov-Dec’14. For ease of knowledge sharing, we have developed collaterals featuring multiple dimensions of our exploration and strategies adapt. The outcomes that are Gamification in learning and the approaches we implemented to catalyse learning. Do contact us if you would like us to schedule one of these especially for you and your team. Our Corporate Quality Certification Endeavour (CMMi L3) The quality certification initiative that we had initiated in last year has started bearing fruits in terms of the consistency in productivity and predictability in the quality of outputs at various stages of product development. We believe this is the "icing on the cake" that will take our already mature development practice (13 years old!) to next level and enable us to grow at much faster pace over next 3 years. In 2016, we will step this up to aim for L5 that focuses on continually improving process performance particularly through adoption of innovative approaches. Spirit of Innovation is part of EI Design’s DNA and we look forward to reaching this milestone next year. The post Newsletter Feb2015 appeared first on EI Design.

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Although it might seem absurd to design training without the end user in mind, an audience analysis is an extremely important yet often overlooked element of instructional design. Before creating an eLearning course, you should find out as much as possible about your learners. This information should directly impact your design and content choices. For example, the experience levels of the audience will affect the types of activities incorporated in the course. During the eLearning audience analysis stage of design, it is important to think of your learners as a group of individuals with specific goals. Remember, demographic profiles of your target audience do not always paint the complete picture. You have to look beyond statistics like age, educational qualification, and occupation to understand the learner. Your learner is a sum of his or her past experiences, desires, aspirations, and expectations. Their learning styles and media preferences are shaped by their familiarity with and access to technology. Their cultural upbringing influences their perception of symbols, images, words, or analogies. Learners are a complex and multi-dimensional human beings; just a few numbers do not define them.  Here are five ways you can get to know your eLearning course target audience:

The world is in the middle of a technological boom, with steadily increasing emphasis on developing new technologies in all sectors of the economy in order to increase overall productivity. Education is one such sector, and a growing number of schools are now relying on school scheduling software to better organize their information. A lot of time is wasted in schools by manual administration such as attendance records, inventory management and lesson planning. School scheduling software automates all of these processes and ensures students spend more time learning. This provides knock-on benefits to the school and to the economy as a whole as students and staff spend their time in class efficiently ensuring each student gets the maximum out of his/her education. It is difficult though to know exactly what qualities you should seek out when selecting the appropriate scheduling software and there are a plethora of options currently available on the market. Therefore, here are three qualities you and your school should look out for in any effective scheduling software solution: Security: This is a top priority because school principals and stakeholders need to keep their information discreet and secure. Any effective scheduling software will provide multi-tiered password protection ensuring that sensitive information is seen by only authorized personnel. Keeping track of inventory expenses and school admission fees is of paramount importance and it is vital that the software you choose is highly secure. It is also highly likely that any scheduling software will integrate staff salaries and provide automatic payment so the emphasis on a secure platform needs to be strong. Providing multi-tiered levels of security means that any school administrators can set the security level for each individual user. Simplicity: The whole point of using school scheduling software is that all elements of the administration process are streamlined into one solution ensuring that less time is wasted and more focus is put on learning. The key driver of an effective software platform is that it should be simple to use. Teachers will most likely be responsible for entering information such as attendance and grade records and students will be able to view their own grades so it is crucial that any software utilized is uncomplicated. Schools should be looking out for solutions with a simple user interface and clarity of options. Like any automated software, it needs to be more simple and concise than doing the work manually. Customizable: An excellent scheduling software is often defined by the level of customization available. It is important that schools can design and customize timetable to their own specific needs and preferences. Schools should look out for features such as custom fonts and logos in order to give their timetables and official reports a specific professional look. Additionally, the ability to automatically reschedule planned meetings and conferences is important. If a student needs to retake a test or a staff meeting needs to be postponed, this can throw the whole school schedule out of kilter for days on end. With effective software, all meetings should automatically be rearranged around each staff or student’s availability at that particular time.   The post Qualities of an Effective Scheduling Software for School appeared first on Fedena Blog.

It’s almost winter break! That means a forecast of no school, lots of snow, and plenty of down time with family, friends, and loved ones. For bookworms, the winter holidays are the perfect time to catch up on reading, but not without a few adjustments for the demands of winter. For every bookworm that’s heading home for the holidays, here are just a few winter woes that are all too real: 1. Trying to read while it’s snowing. 2. Trying to turn the page while wearing gloves and realizing it’s nearly impossible. 3. Freezing your hands off because you decided to take off your gloves so you could turn the pages of your book more easily. 4. Accidentally burning holiday pies and cookies because you’re too absorbed in the novel you’re reading. 5. Shopping for other people’s holiday gifts and getting distracted by all the books you want to buy for yourself. 6. Trying to figure out how to subtly tell all your relatives that you really just want books for the holidays, instead of hand-knitted socks and a salad spinner you will never use. 7. Trying to read while all your relatives keep asking you, "what are you reading?" "how is school?" "what are you doing with your life?" 8. Browsing a bookstore while carrying a giant parka and trying not to knock anything over. 9. Making a snow angel, then realizing you had a book in your pocket and now it’s damp. 10. Sweating through your winter coat, hat, and scarf when you go indoors because you don’t want to take them off in case you lose your place in your book. 11. Trying to read and walk at the same time, while also looking out for treacherous icy patches on the sidewalk. 12. Trying to read through fogged up glasses when you drink hot cocoa. 13. Finishing every book you brought home for the holidays and wondering what to do with yourself. 14. Reading novels about warm places and realizing you don’t remember what the sun feels like. 15. Reading novels about other families and realizing your own is not so crazy after all. What will you be reading over the winter holidays?

Help your class get into the holiday spirit! Familiar traditions have fascinating and sometimes surprising origins. Get to know the history and significance behind Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and more with our All About the Holidays video collection.  View Collection RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Eight Days of Hanukkah | Peg + Cat Albert Einstein sings a song with Peg, Cat, and their friends about the number that Hanukkah is all about: eight! View Resource Missing Reindeer | The Odd Squad Teach your class about plotting coordinates with this Odd Squad resource. Two of Santa’s reindeer are loose and flying all over the world! By graphing coordinates on a map, Olive and Otto try to locate them.  View Resource Kwanzaa: All About the Holidays Kwanzaa is a time to celebrate African American heritage. Learn the ways people observe this festivity and trace its roots to ancient African customs. View Resource NEWS Apply Now for the 2016 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators Program PBS is excited to announce the fourth annual Digital Innovators program for tech-savvy K-12 educators. The program recognizes educators nationwide who are incorporating digital media in classrooms and serving as leaders in educational technology. Learn More & Apply   PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Raising Readers: Preparing Preschoolers for Success Using early literary research from Susan B. Neuman and Kathleen Roskos, you’ll learn to plan meaningful early literacy-learning experiences that build on preschoolers’ prior knowledge, expand their vocabulary, and strengthen oral language development. Learn More The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science- A Special Collection from Annenberg Learner This course helps to provide a background for understanding and discussing the natural functioning of the different Earth systems: geophysical systems, the atmosphere, the oceans, and natural ecosystems. Learn More The post Learn about Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with PBS LearningMedia appeared first on NCCE's Tech-Savvy Teacher Blog.

Nurse revalidation is fast approaching, and this shake-up of processes has certainly caused a stir across the nursing community. With poor morale, low pay and demanding workloads already impacting retention across the profession, there has inevitably been some apprehension around these new regulations and the additional input required from those who undoubtedly have some of […]