Getting the Board Behind Online Learning Part 2
In a previous blog post I shared my tips for making an initial pitch for online learning to your association’s board of directors. How’d it go? Are you ready to move on to the “exploration [...]
Setting up your Association’s eLearning
“If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra If you’ve been tasked with implementing your association’s eLearning what are you going to do to make sure you [...]
How to Get the Most out of Your LMS Demo
If you’re in the beginning stages of selecting a learning management system (LMS) for your association, you might be feeling overwhelmed by all the choices and information from various vendors. If you’re not prepared to [...]
Bridging the Skills Gap: An Opportunity for Associations
There’s a huge skills gap problem facing our nation today, but this crisis represents an opportunity for associations to reinvent themselves and compete with traditional suppliers of higher education. I was recently asked to present [...]
Tips for Working Successfully with an eLearning Partner
According to the old saying, “it takes a village to raise a child.” Similarly, in eLearning, it takes a team to create a course. You might have a different person in each role or you [...]
Measuring Your Association’s eLearning ROI
There is a lot of talk about the return on investment (ROI) of eLearning within the corporate training and development world, but less emphasis is put on this performance indicator in the association space. Still, [...]
6 Signs It’s Time to Invest in an LMS
We are currently in the Information Age and have had computer technology at our finger tips for nearly five decades. By now, most organizations have at least experimented with online learning in one way or [...]
How to Create Clear Learning Objectives
The phrase “learning objectives” gets thrown around a lot in discussions about training and development. Courses are supposed to have learning objectives, competencies should be related to them, quiz questions should assess how well they’ve [...]
Top 5 Things Associations can Learn from Corporate Training Departments
Most associations have provided some degree of member education as part of their mission. For members, continuing education is a valuable benefit for their professional development. And for associations, educational offerings can be a valuable [...]
How to Create eLearning Using PowerPoint
[sg_popup id="1" event="hover"][/sg_popup]Having a solid foundation in PowerPoint is a must when using rapid content authoring tools to create online learning. Many rapid content authoring tools are either based on or an add-on to PowerPoint [...]