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Worldwide Web Content Accessibility Standards and Guidelines

CommLab India

The WCAG (Worldwide Web Content Accessibility Standards and Guidelines) is a critical standard used when developing eLearning courses for learners with disabilities. This blog post shares the guidelines, standards, principles, and differing levels of WCAG.

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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

Both SCORM and xAPI are content standards used to create eLearning courses. These eLearning protocols are important so that courses are interoperable between LMSs and organizations can track learning-related activity. So, in this article, we’re going to talk about some differences between the two standards. What Is xAPI?

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Should Marketing Review eLearning Courses?

Association eLearning

Recently, an instructional designer friend of mine asked me, “Should Marketing review eLearning courses and approve them before they are released?” I responded with a, “Yes, but…” There are legitimate reasons Marketing needs to see the course before it goes out. Of course, we all want to put forth the best course we can.

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Creating Engaging Courses for Professional Training

Academy of Mine

During this interview , we explained what instructional design is, course authoring and delivering eLearning with an LMS, the difference in creating learning materials for academic institutions vs. for-profit businesses, and much more. Instructional designers are like architects when it comes to eLearning and creating training courses.

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5 Things Your eLearning Strategy Needs (Beyond a Bigger Course Library)

The reality of L&D programs is that training needs to be repeatable, scalable, and uphold learning standards. There’s no simple blueprint guaranteed to work; but there are recurring themes. Simultaneously, programs are often more engaging when personalized to the learner. Striking a balance between these demands can be a challenge.

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

At the dawn of the video recording age, a battle raged about the best standard to use: VHS or Betamax. In it, Sony came out with a better standard, but kept it to themselves. Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS standard wasn’t quite as good, but they openly licensed it. Standards provide several benefits. Learning Standards.

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The 5 Best Research-Based Methods For Training Content Standardization

eLearning Industry

Besides the usual suspects of poor planning and lack of engagement and motivation, could standardization be the key to overturning those high drop-out numbers for online courses? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Think Outside the Box: Solutions for Effective Content Distribution

You invest a lot of time and energy creating courses when you build custom learning and training solutions or publish commercial content. Having a strategy in place to address the complexities that come with serving your courses across multiple LMSs is critical. Explore options for distributing and selling content.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.