Instructional Design Best Practices
Best Practices for Effective Soft Skills Training
Boring soft skills training doesn’t just put employees to sleep. It lowers employee perception of your organization – your internal brand. That’s why the most effective soft skills training typically doesn’t just fly off someone else’s shelf. Savvy organizations take...
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eLearning Brothers Launches a First in the Training Market – Customizable Courseware
Salt Lake City Utah - eLearning Brothers announced today a first in the training industry - Customizable Courseware. Customizable Courseware is a fully designed and developed training package that includes the eLearning source files, classroom materials and PowerPoint...
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Mother Knows Best: 3 eLearning Lessons Your Mother Taught You
May is a magical time of year for many of us, when our minds turn to the women who raised us. On Mother's Day, we honor the sacrifices of our mothers, as well as the nurturing and discipline they exercised to help us grow into decent people. Not surprisingly, our...
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New Post-Millennial Cutouts For Your Next eLearning Soft Skills Course
In just under 7 months, eLearning Brothers has added an average of 5,800 cutout people images a month to the library for a total of over 40,000 high quality images! Included in these images are dozens of new models, hundreds of new poses, and many more costumes for...
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6 Ways to Accelerate the Learning Process
Learning is a process, and like any process, it sometimes takes a significant time investment to complete. But time is a precious resource, and should be spent wisely. One benefit to shortening the amount of time you spend learning a certain concept is that it...
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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Millennial Apocalypse and Modern Learning Solutions
Twenty years ago, "eLearning" was introduced as the web became ubiquitous and authoring tools accessible; yet their limits resulted in a plethora of online slide shows. Today, we have access to a wide range of technologies—mobile, social, virtual, search, gaming, and...
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Ameliorate Your eLearning Professional Development with 1-on-1 Mentoring
We at eLearning Brothers have just recently released the all new Professional Development Package. If it had to be explained in one sentence, it is a package that contains 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers “mentor,” a membership to either The eLearning Guild...
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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Death of the LMS and eLearning s Next Generation of Tools
Have you heard of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), SCORM, or XAPI? In last week's webinar we heard from the team that created these standards in eLearning. This recording of that webinar covers adaptive learning, experiential learning, and how xAPI is being...
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Adam Cannon Responds to #AskMeMonday on Instructional Design
Yesterday we began our #AskMeMonday Twitter conversation where we solicit questions from our followers, answer those questions inline as much as possible, and then finish up the following day with our #TellYouTuesday blog post. Yesterday’s #AskMeMonday topic of...
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Webinar: Future of eLearning – Games and the Millennials’ Attention Deficit Disorder
Last week, eLearning Brother's Executive Director of Custom Services, Bill West, hosted Richard Lowenthal of The Game Agency in a webinar discussing the benefits of games in eLearning. Eight seconds: That’s the time you have to grab an employee’s attention. Five...
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Teach Your Team Negotiation Skills with an eLearning Course
When you hear the word "negotiation," you probably think of some high-stakes situation involving SWAT teams, dangerous criminals, and tense conversations through megaphones. Negotiation skills certainly come into play in those instances, but they are also very useful...
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How a Time Management eLearning Course Can Boost Productivity
People who manage their time effectively are productivity ninjas. They know themselves, and they pay attention to how much time their typical work tasks take. Having this kind of streamlined efficiency in a person is awesome, but to have it on an organizational level...
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The Essentials of a Stress Management eLearning Course
Work-life balance is perhaps one of the most sought-after elements of modern life. It's an interesting catch-22, because both are important. You need to live your personal life, but in order to do so, you must work to support it—but not too hard, because then you're...
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Camtasia Templates in Action
Have you noticed that eLearning course creators are amazing? How many eLearning courses have you seen that are not only educational, but amazingly eye pleasing and enjoyable? Here at eLearning Brothers we love how creative people are, and that is why we make our...
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3 Brilliant Common Craft Instructional Videos
Common Craft has an extensive library of informative and instructional videos. With professionalism and personality, they are easy to drop into an eLearning course to quickly get a point across in an engaging way. Today we're taking a look at 3 videos in particular...
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3 Elements of Effective Communication for Your Next eLearning Course
Unless you're stranded on a desert island somewhere—and given that you're reading this, the chances of that are slim—you communicate with other people every day. It might not be a verbal communication, but you're constantly sending messages to those around you through...
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3 Ways eLearning Infographics Can Increase Engagement
One of the greatest blessings of the modern world is the Internet. It really is a game changer that we are able to communicate with so many people with such ease. One thing that comes with that immediacy and sheer volume that the web brings is a sense of choice...
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In the Flesh! New Medical Stock Images
We at eLearning Brothers are proud to announce that we've recently made 115 new additions to our medical image library. These images take a detailed look at the internal structure of the organs in the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic regions. Great care was given to...
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3 Things to Include in Any Workplace Violence eLearning Course
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2014 that 15,980 people had experienced traumas related to workplace violence, and of the 4,679 workplace deaths that same year, about 12% were the result of homicide. Though these may be small numbers relative to the number...
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Presentation: The Difference Between Good and Super eLearning Courses
In the classic-rock-laden animated comedy Megamind, the title character (an ineffectual super-villain voiced by Will Ferrel) makes an astute observation about what it takes to differentiate yourself from the herd: Megamind: You're a villain alright, just not a...
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