Incorporating game elements into your learning program is a great way to empower learners to act freely, show competency, and work together. Here are the hot gamification trends impacting elearning in 2015: 80% of learners say that their productivity would increase if their university or organization was more game-like 70% of Global 2000 organizations have at least one gamified application (Gartner) 89% of learners would be engaged with an LMS if the application had a point system 90% of learners recall information if they are applying content within a stimulation Litmos visualized this data in a beautiful infographic. Check it out below. The post Elearning Gamification Trends 2015 appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Building high quality eLearning collaboratively with colleagues is a time-consuming challenge. In this article we’ll look at how to use branded themes, collaboration tools, and Rapid Release™ republishing to save time when building and delivering eLearning. Here are 3 strategies to help you quickly deliver high quality eLearning: 1. Reuse branded themes Look for opportunities to create eLearning themes that you can use over and over. This will help save time and money as you build more projects. It also makes the development process more efficient and easier for your entire team. How to reuse branded themes: Use an eLearning authoring tool that provides ready-made themes that you can customize with your own branding. These themes will already be built to industry standards and include design best practices that will save you heaps of time. Some tools like Elucidat provide responsive themes that will automatically adjust to different mobile and tablet devices. Set up your theme and brand the first time, then just focus on the content for future courses. This will speed up eLearning content development because you won’t have to spend any time designing your eLearning. Pick a tool that provides Master courses (or Master templates). Master courses are reusable courses that you can use to quickly build new projects. All changes made to a Master course are automatically synced with the linked projects. This saves your team lots of repetitive work, since they don’t have to manually make changes to each project. Master courses also make localization projects much more efficient. You can quickly create courses in different languages and empower reviewers to comment on and collaborate directly inside the project. 2. Use cloud-based collaboration tools Stakeholders will need to review your projects at some stage in the development process. This is often where your work runs into some snags. How do your stakeholders manage the review and feedback cycles, track changes, and monitor version control? These tasks can be particularly challenging if you have multiple stakeholders and reviewers working on the project. How to enhance stakeholder collaboration: Make sure everyone reviewing the project has access to the most up-to-date version. The best way to ensure people are working on the current project is to use a cloud-based eLearning tool that automatically manages updates and keeps the project current. Use a system to track and manage review cycles and changes. eLearning software like Elucidat incorporates this functionality to help you track updates. For example, Elucidat has an easy-to-use comment tool that lets team members, subject matter experts and stakeholders add notes for the rest of the team. You can quickly see what changes or additions have been made and who made those changes. Is it time to throw away that frustrating spreadsheet you use to track changes? Sign off on changes inside the project itself. This makes it easy to keep the updates and the tracked changes together in one place. Never again will you need to use another tool to manage the review process. 3. Reduce maintenance time with Rapid Release republishing As an eLearning manager, you’ll likely need to factor in time for maintenance of content and projects. This is especially the case if your company requires annual updates to your compliance courses. How to speed up eLearning maintenance: Use an authoring tool that enables authors to push updates out directly to their Learning Management Systems. This is a serious time saver. No longer do you need to make the changes, republish the project, and then upload it again in the Learning Management System. Elucidat’s Rapid Release™ republishing feature enables you to quickly update content in your Learning Management System without having to download and upload files to SCORM each time. Changes are processed straight to the Learning Management System - no need for republishing, packaging, or redeploying. Conclusion: Embrace new technology. Embrace new technology that can help you design great-looking eLearning and increase the efficiency of your authoring team. Tools that make the development process more efficient will help you reduce the time it takes to develop eLearning projects. In turn, this will help you to control costs and deliver high quality eLearning, faster. Next step: Discover more ways to deliver eLearning faster by signing up for Elucidat’s eLearning Time-savers course The post 3 Strategies For Quickly Delivering High Quality Elearning appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Under pressure to deliver more for less? Time-poor but creatively rich? Modern eLearning tools help managers of eLearning teams deliver great courses while saving development costs. In this article I’ll show you how to reduce eLearning development costs by using pre-built themes, Master courses, and responsive designs. Once upon a time, I was commissioned to work as part of a team on an extensive set of learning courses for a well-known business school in the USA. We are talking turn of the century here, so it’s some time ago in terms of learning technology. Back then it took us 18 months -and tens of thousands of dollars- to design, build, and deliver 60 hours of high value learning content. It was cutting edge at the time, but in today’s world it would be considered too costly and would be out of date before it was even deployed. Since the old tricks no longer work, let’s look at 3 ways modern eLearning tools can help you reduce eLearning development costs and deliver your eLearning quickly, cheaply, and without compromising quality. 1. Use pre-built themes Instead of spending time and resources on eLearning design, use a pre-built theme that has been designed using instructional best practices and with learner experience in mind. Ready-to-go themes help you start authoring content faster, which means you can get your courses out to learners more quickly. A theme is a set of basic building blocks for your project. You’ll want a theme where everything on the page is editable so you can add your own branding, colors, fonts, and imagery. Pre-built themes let you build afresh or modify existing themes so you don’t have to waste time (and money) setting up your courses from scratch each time. Some authoring tools like Elucidat come with pre-built themes and also give you complete flexibility to create your own bespoke themes. Here’s a quick look at Elucidat’s themes: 2. Use Master courses Master courses are reusable courses that you can use to base any new project on. Any changes that you make to a Master course will automatically update to all of the linked projects. This feature saves you heaps of time because you don’t have to manually go through and make changes to each project one at a time. Why is this good? Well, here are two examples to show you how Master courses can save you time and money: Example 1: You need to create and maintain similar projects for different internal departments. Imagine you need to personalize each course with each department’s colors and contact details. By using a Master course, you can make the course once and then release slightly different versions for each department. If you need to update all these courses, you can make the change to the content in your Master course and that change will automatically push to each of the linked projects. Example 2: You need to create courses in multiple languages. A Master course is a time saver for when you need to release courses in multiple languages. You can create your Master course with the pages and assessments set up and then create a project for each language you need to release. Now instead of starting from scratch for each language, you use the base structure and edit the content accordingly. 3. Build once, deliver on multiple devices The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is enabling more and more learners to use their own devices to take courses online. Here are the 4 reasons why I’m a big advocate of BYOD learning: It increases engagement with your content. It saves time and money: A sales person out on the road can learn without physically being in the office. Learners can complete courses while commuting to and from work. Learners can focus more on the learning if they are using a device they are comfortable using. Whether you like it or not, BYOD learning is here. This means you need to make sure your courses are accessible on all devices. You need responsive designs that adapt to the screen size on which it is being viewed. Instead of creating multiple versions of eLearning for different devices, you can reduce eLearning development costs by using a tool that is multi-device compatible. Authoring tools that let you create and test responsive eLearning can save a lot of duplicate work. Take a look at this screenshot that shows how Elucidat enables you quickly test responsive eLearning: eLearning inspiration: Learn how Utility Warehouse used Elucidat to deliver responsive eLearning to 46,000 leaders Final takeaways Instead of building brand new designs each and every time, use pre-built themes to get started quickly. Instead of starting from scratch for every new course, use a Master course with a base structure that can be used and tweaked for your future projects. Instead of creating multiple versions of eLearning for different devices, use Elucidat’s authoring tool which makes it easy to build and test responsive eLearning. A version of this article first appeared on Elearning Industry. The post 3 ways to reduce elearning development costs appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Under pressure to deliver more for less? Reusing elements from projects such as design, interactions, logos, look and feel, media, assessments, and content can really help you save time. Let’s look at how you can use Master Courses to create eLearning themes that will allow you to reuse these elements over and over again. In the 19th century, Britain built the world’s first and very best rail system. It was so good that countries from around the world replicated it. Now the rail systems in many major economies run comfortably, on time, and cheaply. Countries were fortunate to learn from Britain’s mistakes and eventually build even better rail systems. Building from the bottom up is sometimes the only way to make a product the way it needs to be made. eLearning designers and developers, like rail builders, try to build with blocks that have already been created. Why? Because you can be certain the elements are best practice. They’ve been tried and tested, free of errors, and inefficiencies. What Are Master Courses? Master Courses, often called templates, are reusable themes that you can use on multiple projects. All design aspects, code, and interactions you develop in a Master Course can be reused each time you create a course. You can base any eLearning project on a Master Course. In some eLearning development tools such as Elucidat, changes that you make to a Master Course are automatically applied to all linked projects. This saves you time (and money) since you don’t have to go through and edit each project one at a time. Why Αre Master Courses Effective? Let’s look at 3 common scenarios to see how Master Courses make delivering eLearning easier and more efficient. Scenario 1: Multiple client projects. Imagine you are charged with creating product training materials for several clients. They all require almost identical courses, but you want to personalize each course by adding the client’s logo or brand colors. By using a Master Course, you can make the courses once and then release slightly different versions to each client. Then if you make a change to the content in your Master Course, the change will automatically get pushed to each of the projects linked to it. This saves you hours of development time and significantly reduces your costs. Related: 3 Ways To Reduce eLearning Development Costs Scenario 2: Product training changes. Picture your marketing team changing the name of one of your products. Instead of going through and changing each instance of the product name in the course by hand, you can edit the product name in the Master Course and the change is pushed to all courses. This flexibility makes eLearning maintenance more efficient. You can now make updates on a regular basis to ensure learners have the most up-to-date content. Related: 3 Ways Cloud Publishing Can Save You Time On eLearning Maintenance Scenario 3: Localization. Now imagine that you are charged with creating a general health and safety course for all your organization’s employees. Your organization is large and the workforce is located in different countries. Some employees are full time and others are contractors, but all have various levels of digital and reading literacy. For example, last year I authored a course for a large French engineering firm who hired workers on a daily or weekly basis to help build railways all over the world. The course was created entirely using imagery and iconography to convey key life-saving messages for a user group that included postgraduates and people who couldn’t read. The training material was taken onto construction sites to help generate conversations in local languages about best safety practices. If you release courses in multiple languages, you have the ability to create a Master Course with the pages and assessments set up and then create a project for each language in which you want to release it. This means you don’t have to start each different language course from scratch. The timesavings are really seen when you need to make a change. For example, if you want to make an update in accordance with legal requirements or company policy, you only need to do this in the Master Course and then that change is pushed out to all the projects belonging to the Master. Final Takeaways In summary, Master Courses (templates) offer three key benefits: Build once, use many times. Set up a course once -as a Master- and then produce all subsequent courses that require similar content from that Master Course. Update one course. Make updates at the Master level and the changes are automatically pushed out to all the courses below it. This saves you the time needed change each and every course manually. Quickly personalize courses. Use Master Courses to personalize projects with different imagery, branding, logos, and languages. What’s Next? Check out these resources to learn more ways to deliver eLearning faster: How to speed up eLearning content development 3 Strategies for quickly delivering high-quality eLearning Register for Elucidat’s eLearning time-savers course The post How To Use Master Courses (Templates) To Deliver Elearning Faster appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Are your elearning projects being held up due to bottlenecks involving your SMEs? In this article, Steve Penfold shows you how to manage SMEs so you never miss another deadline. SMEs are valued for what they know in their respective fields. Typically, Learning Designers or Instructional Designers (LDs or IDs, respectively) extract the SME’s knowledge so that they can get on with the task of producing the learning. After they extract the information, they send the SME away and don’t care what they do as long as they don’t interfere with the production process. And that’s a shame. Why? Because when you treat SMEs like bare resources, they will lack the motivation to help you with the content you desperately need. Learn how to manage SMEs more effectively so you can speed up elearning production. 1. Involve the SMEs right from the start Firstly, it’s wise to involve SMEs from the earliest project meetings. Don’t just pull them in to fill in content blanks once the broader decisions about scope, look and feel, deployment options, etc. have been made. All of these other things are there to support the content, so it makes sense to let the content experts have a say. SMEs shouldn’t necessarily have the final say - content may be king, but logistic reality is his headstrong queen - but SME input will help validate the early decisions being made. It can also highlight areas where later rework would otherwise be necessary. For example, imagine if stakeholders want to implement mobile but the knowledgeable SME points out that the environment that the audience operates in is not mobile friendly. Steve Penfold: SME input will help validate the early decisions being made…Click To Tweet In addition to being great sources of subject and audience-demographic knowledge, SMEs are also often a first-line testing resource. Because the L&D function may not have vision of SME availability, another plus of having SMEs involved in early discussions is that L&D can understand their schedules and factor this into the overall production timeline. This can help avoid wasteful production and testing bottlenecks later. Related: 7 practical tips to help you to get the best from your Learning and Development team. 2. Challenge SMEs to keep content tight SMEs know a lot about their subject and they’re often keen to share it all! But including more content doesn’t necessarily make for better courses. Tight, concise content has three huge benefits over a bloated alternative: It’s easier and quicker to produce; It’s easier and quicker for the audience to consume; and It’s more powerful and useful to the audience. When mining an SME for information, you can make long-term efficiencies by asking the SME to justify (in the nicest, gentlest way, of course) why they want to include particular content. If content isn’t necessary for a learner to do what it is that you want them to do, then consider dropping it. For example, understanding the history of widget manufacture probably won’t help a salesperson sell widgets, so it wastes everyone’s time to include it in a widget sales course, both at the production and consumption ends of the process. 3. Use SMEs as an authoring resource SMEs can be an enthusiastic, untapped production resource. Depending on their skill level, availability and desire, you can leverage this enthusiasm and have them write some content. Examples of where SMEs could add value in this respect are writing simple cheat sheets, coming up with scenarios for developers to drop into interactions, writing realistic distractors (incorrect options) for quiz questions, or even plugging content directly into a simple authoring tool like Elucidat. Instructional writers may need to tweak SMEs’ words to make the language consistent with other material that’s been written, but the expert thinking and hard work for that piece would have been done. The key is to provide a rigid framework to keep the SME on track and capture their work by using master templates and being very specific about what the course and downstream production team needs. Here’s a quick animation to show you how Elucidat can gives SMEs structure while authoring content: For example, let’s say a course calls for an interaction where a client-customer conversation evolves over four screens or reveals. An SME would know what a conversation like this sounds like, so it makes sense to let them write one for you. You could provide a document template to the SME that includes: Immovable background information like the characters to use and environmental setting,  perhaps because these had been established elsewhere in the course; Minimum and maximum word counts to guide the SME because the conversation text needs to fit into defined areas on the course’s screens; A clearly-labeled area for the SME to indicate what each speaker’s mood is at each point of the conversation so that appropriate character graphics can be sourced; and A clearly-labeled area for the SME to populate what the actors actually say at each of the four conversation points. Tools like Elucidat can help you give SMEs a tight brief and a simple template that make it easy for them to write a piece of content - you can cut out one or more iterations of a design and review process and free the LDs and IDs to work on other elements of the course. Related: 3 advantages of involving more non-technical stakeholders in the elearning production process 4. Be specific about what you don’t want And finally, be specific about what you don’t want from an SME. This is especially true if you’re using them in a writing or review capacity. For example, if an SME is reviewing some alpha release deliverables, let them know that you don’t want them commenting on things like colors or navigational standards that were signed off on months before. In this example, be clear that they should report things that are wrong, not working or ambiguous, but not things that are a personal preference. It’s a waste of everybody’s time for SMEs to consider and report aspects of a deliverable that can’t be changed. The good news is that if the SMEs were present in the earlier project meetings, then they’ll already have a good idea of what these things are! 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New technologies are forcing L&D teams to change the way they produce elearning, says Steve Penfold. He explains how new processes are helping organisations speed up production, increase team productivity, and enhance elearning quality. Once upon a time, it was necessary for an L&D team to have two broad groups of people with very different skillsets to create elearning. You might have the designer group that handles the front-end design and content, and the development group that use their technical skills to bring the designers’ vision to life. What if I told you this process was outdated. What if I told you it’s inefficient and costing you hours of time and thousands of dollars? Modern elearning managers are rethinking their elearning production process to involve more stakeholders. New tools are enabling this shift by shielding stakeholders from the technical complexities of creating elearning. This shift is empowering non-technical stakeholders at the front-end of the production process. They now have direct access to create a working elearning product. Let’s look at the three advantages of involving more non-technical stakeholders in the elearning production process. 1. Increase the speed of production By allowing the people who know the content to actually put it directly into an authoring tool, you can speed up the production process. This increased speed can be the result of several factors: Fewer links in the chain: Each step (person) that content needs to go through in the production process adds time, e.g. from Subject Matter Expert (SME) to Learning Designer to Graphics Designer to Developer. Removing steps will reduce time. Imagine a situation where SMEs take the role of developer and enter their own content via a templated authoring tool like Elucidat. This could save hours of discussions and clarification meetings between team members. Development efficiencies: Developer resources are often stretched and can be a bottleneck in the production process. Allowing non-technical resources to create finished content, or at least working prototypes, will largely, if not entirely, remove this issue. Simplified review cycles: Like a game of Chinese whispers (or Gossip), each set of production hands that the content goes through, from initial idea to finished product, opens the door to errors and misinterpretation and makes extra quality checks and approvals necessary. Reducing the number of steps in the production process simplifies and reduces the number of reviews required and minimizes another potential production bottleneck. 2. Increase team productivity and efficiency In addition to increased development speed, general efficiencies can also be realized: Higher output: By using simple, powerful elearning authoring tools and enabling your non-technical resources to reach more deeply into the production process, your overall output capability will increase. A more flexible team: By using the majority of your L&D team and not just your developers to develop content (i.e., actually building a working product), you will have a more flexible production team and greater production capability. Remove reliance on third parties: If you currently outsource development to an external vendor, then huge time and costs savings will be realized by bringing some or all of the development function in-house using your available non-technical resources. Bring teams together: Web-based authoring tools like Elucidat allow multiple team members, regardless of their technical ability, to work concurrently on a single project over the web. Apart from the efficiency of having multiple people working on a single elearning deliverable, this means that geographically dispersed members can be formed into flexible, effective virtual teams. Related: How to speed up elearning content development 3. Improve quality of end product All of these savings and efficiencies that come from using your wider team for development don’t have to come at the expense of quality. The processes and features in the tools that will enable your non-technical workforce to author elearning can actually make for a better end product: Less chance of miscommunication: With a more direct route from subject knowledge to working product, there’s less chance of miscommunication, confusion, rework and errors. Centralized stakeholder input: Many elearning authoring tools that enable non-technical team members to create elearning have built-in web-based workflows that allow multiple SMEs and other stakeholders to access, review, comment on and approve content right inside the authoring tool. The chance of missed email comments, duplicate or conflicting comments and reviewer feedback in different (often developer-unfriendly) formats is removed. Consistency: By using templates in the elearning authoring tool that your team members use, the overall output will have a consistent look and the end users of the courseware will be familiar with how to use and interact with it. And templates don’t have to mean boring or inflexible. For example, Elucidat’s screen templates (or themes) can have as many or few screen types as necessary for a project (e.g. several question types, sequence builds, image carousels, multiple text and graphic layouts, video, etc.) and these can either be locked down or open to some adjustment depending on how much flexibility you want to give your authors. Give your non-technical team members the ability to dive into the elearning production process.Click To Tweet So, with these potential savings and benefits, the question for me isn’t why you would give your non-technical team members the ability to dive more deeply into the elearning production process, but rather why you wouldn’t. Stay on top of the latest elearning ideas, trends and technologies by subscribing to the Elucidat weekly newsletter. The post 3 reasons why you should rethink your elearning production process appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Boring eLearning fails to engage learners. Li Whybrow shares her ideas on how you can create innovative eLearning that really stands out in the crowd and keeps learners engaged. In this article you’ll discover 3 ideas to help you create innovative eLearning. Use these ideas to create eLearning that that is more engaging and interactive for the user. 1. Use scrolling to improve the user experience Scrolling used to be considered bad eLearning design, but now, with smaller touch screens, it’s making a comeback. That’s because small screens make it cumbersome to have to touch a button to continue through the content. Instead of clicking, scrolling the screen up and down makes for a better user experience. Take a look at this example here: The Dangers of Fracking is a great eLearning resource that shows you how effective scrolling can be use in an eLearning environment. Benefits of using scrolling in this example: All the information is on one screen, saving the user from multiple unnecessary steps. Downward scrolling engages the learner because they feel like they are digging down into the earth to learn about the fracking process. User is in full control of the navigation. As the user progresses through each stage of the journey, relevant information pops up automatically. Interactive elements, like pop-ups, help the user explore and drill down deeper to learn more information. The background graphics are contemporary and create a relevant, meaningful canvas for the content to be displayed on. Elearning Superstars review: The Dangers of Fracking (Linda Dong) 2. Use clickable regions to link between pages Instead of using standard buttons to link between pages, consider using interactive elements on top of images. For example, in the Out of my window example below, a cut-out image of one of the people acts as a clickable region, which links to additional content (a pop-up layer containing video). Take a look at this example here: This eLearning works well because the interactive links help you navigate to each section of the course. Creative image effects (rollovers) make for an engaging and interactive experience. Elearning Superstars review: Out My Window (National Film Board of Canada) 3. Use navigation that makes consuming your content easier User-driven menu design, such as side or top tabs, put the learner in control of the order in which they want to access content. eLearning tools like Elucidat have ready-to-use menu templates that enable you to compile interactive menu screens quickly. You can link each topic to the relevant part of the course. A tabbed screen is also an option, wherein you can present a whole course within just one screen. This gives you the ability to put a range of media on each layer while using the theme of your choice. Here’s a great example of a creative navigation: I particularly like the simplicity of the navigation. At any point, you can quickly switch between the different stories by using the top navigation menu. Elearning Superstars review: Amazing Girls (New York Times) Conclusion: Increase Engagement By Innovating I have highlighted just a few ways to build innovative eLearning. Draw inspiration from what other eLearning professionals are creating. eLearning Superstars is a great resource that curates some of the most innovative eLearning examples from all over the world. Stay on top of the latest eLearning ideas, trends, and technologies by subscribing to the Elucidat weekly newsletter. The post Is your elearning boring? Spice it up with these 3 innovative elearning ideas 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 FAUN Trackway, CLE India, and Open University. 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. FAUN Trackway: Training that uses computer-aided imagery and animation CLE India: A program that educates handlers on the procedures to be followed while loading and unloading live cattle during transportation Open University: This interactive module uses fictional case studies to raise questions about what is good healthcare The post Elearning inspiration: FAUN Trackway, CLE India, Open University appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

With technology moving at an exponential rate, we are always facing new challenges in the elearning industry. Read on to discover the challenges elearning professionals face in this ever changing environment. Christopher Pappas: Top 10 instructional design challenges in elearning Instructional designers face a variety of challenges due to the multidimensional nature of their job. In this article, Chris shares the top 10 instructional design challenges faced from elearning professionals. Learn about Chris’ top 10 instructional design challenges faced by elearning professionals Marek Hyla: Elearning course hierarchy of needs: 5 key elearning challenges Elearning professionals should expect and be prepared for new challenges. In this article, Marek uses a hierarchic approach to discuss five challenges professionals face in the elearning industry. Read Marek’s five key elearning challenges Monique Honer: Got E-Learning subject matter expert challenges? Are your subject matter experts (SME’s) controlling, difficult and indecisive? Before you give up on your SME’s, try applying some of these strategies Monique shares in this article about the challenges we face with subject matter experts. Read Monique’s overview on subject matter expert challenges Nikhil Shrikhande: Risks and challenges with a globally distributed elearning team In this article, Nikhil discusses seven risks that a globally distributed elearning development team face. Try applying his advice to overcome elearning challenges with your development team. Read about Nikhil’s seven key risks Elucidat Content: Top 5 HTML5 e-learning challenges   HTML5 is a programming language that allows elearning projects to work on web and mobile devices. In this overview, we’ve shared solutions to five potential "snags" you may encounter with HTML5 in your elearning content. Read about the five problems you might come across in HTML5     Li Whybrow: Overcoming some of the challenges of working with desktop tools for e-learning   Are you using a desktop authoring tool to create your elearning content? In this article, Li shares the challenges you may face with desktop only authoring tools. Read about the challenges of desktop tools for elearning     5 articles on the challenges elearning professionals face in 2015Click To Tweet   The post What challenges do elearning professionals face in 2015? appeared first on Elucidat Blog.

Do your learners have the desire to learn? Motivation in elearning is a hot topic. Here are some fresh ideas from five industry leaders to help you motivate learners. Christopher Pappas: 5 tips to enhance motivation in elearning Improving your learners’ engagement can enhance their motivation to learn more. In this article, Christopher discusses this idea and others on the ways you can improve your learner’s motivation. Read Christopher’s five tips to enhance motivation Elias Parlavantzas: Learning motivation for employee engagement Employee engagement is critical for business success. Innovative elearning solutions, like gamification and mobile learning, can motivate employees to produce more, share more, acquire more and retain more knowledge. In this article, Elias discusses why employee engagement is an old problem that needs new solutions. Learn more about employee engagement solutions Jayme Jenkins: Building motivation and feedback with gamification In this article, Jayme explains how taking advantage of gamification in your elearning courses can create an exciting, motivational and stronger learning experience. Read Jayme’s article on building motivation with gamification Rambo Levin: Rethinking employee motivation Do you really know what motivates your employees? In this article, Rambo rethinks the traditional "stick and carrot" approach. He summarizes seven flaws of the traditional approach and gives insights on new ways to look at motivation. Read more about Rambo’s new age take on motivation Elearning motivation made easy: How to keep learners engaged   One of the key issues with elearning is the struggle to retain, engage and motivate learners. In this article, Aurion Learning tackles this topic head on and gives some ideas to help motivate your elearning users. Read more about ways to excite and motivate your learners   Do your learners have the desire to learn? 5 ideas to help you motivate learnersClick To Tweet   The post Motivating learners: 5 leaders share their ideas on how to increase motivation in elearning appeared first on Elucidat Blog.