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Why Course Completion Rates Matter (And How to Improve Them) 

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In an online learning environment, completion rates can indicate many things. Make sure your course description accurately and honestly reflects the course and outlines its learning objectives. Let’s explore more reasons why course completion rates are important and how to improve them. Why do course completion rates matter?

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Must-Have Skills to Look For When Hiring an Instructional Designer

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Experience with instructional design tools and technology You’ll need someone with experience using instructional design software, authoring tools, and learning management systems. For example, if you’re using LearnDash, your designer should know how to build within the LearnDash LMS.

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6 Tips to Help You Plan a Successful Online Course

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As an example, if you were teaching a course on organic gardening, you might write your course to appeal to a student who lives in the suburbs or a rural area with space for a garden and with a spouse and children living at home. Examples may include: Teaching others how to teach small children. Determine the course objective.

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6 Design Tips for Building Effective Learning Games

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Looking back, it’s a perfect example of effective gamification in e-learning. Games are an example of active learning. You might think this was too obvious to need stating, but it’s surprisingly easy for the learning objective to get lost in the weeds. Rule-based. Interactive.

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Never Rely Solely on EdTech

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Let’s take the learning management system as an example. As you begin implementing new learning technology try to look past all of the sales hype and think about it from a practical standpoint. Determine if the tool will actually help you meet a defined learning objective.

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True Definition of ELearning Engagement

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For example, navigation between lessons of a course is a type of (basic) interaction. When someone says that they want to create an engaging online course, what they really mean is that the design elements and interactions need to be done in a way that helps learners successfully meet learning objectives. Interactions.

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8 Easy Steps for ELearning Storyboards

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Define the Learning Objectives. Each course should have objectives, and those objectives should relate back to the overall goal of the elearning program as defined in #1. For example, software training via elearning often benefits from simulations. Create Assessment Criteria. Select Design Elements.