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Mother Knows Best: 3 eLearning Lessons Your Mother Taught You

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Give your learners plenty of opportunities to apply each lesson and practice what they’ve learned. What did your mother (or mother figure) teach you as a kid that guides your eLearning expertise today? The post Mother Knows Best: 3 eLearning Lessons Your Mother Taught You appeared first on eLearning Brothers.

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eLearning Lessons from the 80s

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This blast from the past has reminded me of all the lessons we learned from that crazy decade. A discerning eLearning professional who was around for the ’80s has learned some valuable lessons from that era, and those of us who wish to succeed in this business would do well to remember these enduring teachings from the past.

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How to Keep the Personal Touch in eLearning

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If the glaze on your employees’ eyes is thicker than that of a Krispy Kreme doughnut at 9:00 am, you’ve lost the personal touch in your lessons. It’s understandable; you have built hundreds of couses and making lessons that apply to everyone at all times isn’t easy. Update Lessons Before Beginning a New Class.

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3 Elements of Effective Communication for Your Next eLearning Course

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As the editor of my college newspaper, I learned this lesson many times over. That being the case, it pays to teach your entire team the value of effective communication, and a great way to do that in a uniform way is through eLearning courses. Here are 3 things you might include in such a course: What is effective communication?

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How to Implement Spaced Learning into Your eLearning Strategy

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Now we’re seeing a shift towards Brain Friendly teaching, which involves using cognitive research to better understand how our brains work, in order to teach more effectively. This improves long-term learning and memory as it prevents students from forgetting lessons over time. Cover three to five concepts per lesson.

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How to Support Bilingual eLearning

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The perfect example comes from one of the first lessons I led. The lesson about vocabulary associated with family: father, mother, sister, brother, etc. I continued with the lesson, introducing the rest of my family. This is my mother. Her name is Gayl,” I said. Giggles erupted in the front row. Again, giggles. What’s funny?”

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4 Instructional Design Best Practices You Can’t Live Without

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Teach to the test and test what you teach. There’s nothing more annoying than an instructor who gets a sick sort of thrill from surprising their learners with out-of-the-blue questions that they conspicuously neglected to include in the original lesson. What are you trying to teach people?