Yesterday was the Summer Solstice, the astronomical event when the tilt of Earth's axis is most directly pointed towards the sun. In layman's terms, that means if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, yesterday was the day with the most daylight hours of the...

With spring in full swing, we look outdoors to the welcome renewal of nature. In the springtime bounty we see a beautiful array of colors that refresh the mind and delight the winter-dulled senses. To celebrate the beauty of spring, have a look at our collection of...

Deep in the archives of our Lectora Template Library are some hidden gems that might elude the casual browser. We've plumbed the depths of our inventory and have come back up with a few that we think deserve a little more time in the limelight. For your consideration,...

Our beautiful New Stone theme is an understated and modern set of templates that get the point across in an engaging and interesting way without being excessively showy and in-your-face. They're the eLearning equivalent of a "power tie" paired with a classy suit. It's...

A surefire way to spice up your course—or even a small portion of it—is to give it an interesting theme. Training is more likely to stick in the learner's brain if they can tie it to some kind of memorable experience, and a novel theme will differentiate itself from...

In one form or another, schooling and education are an important part of life. Not only does it give us a base layer of knowledge and experience to apply to the "real world," but it ideally also teaches us how to learn. Learning how to learn is important, because the...

One of the first things we learn in kindergarten—along with letters, numbers, and colors—is our shapes. Circles, squares, triangles, rectangles: they are all present in our everyday lives in some form or another. Not only do they appear out in the real world, but they...

As the days get shorter and colder, we start to wrap ourselves up in more layers of clothing to keep out the chill. Sadly, six layers of cloth doesn't always look very debonair (think little Randy in "A Christmas Story"). However, wrapping yourself in argyle, the king...

As acclaimed journalist and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow once said, "Conversation is king." Even though we've taken his words in a slightly different direction, we'd like to think that by that logic, our conversational scenarios have at least a little bit of...

In the second century A.D., the Chinese pioneered an innovative new medium for art and the written word. By flattening a pulp of wood fibers, they were able to create a material the modern world takes very much for granted: paper. In salute to that invention that...

Owing to the demand for computer-based training, plenty of eLearning scenarios take place in work environments. And that's great, because after all, form follows function. But every once in a while, it's expedient to consider taking your scenarios outside the...

Cities are an ancient invention of human civilization. Since the point when agriculture revolutionized the game, humans have generally had more access to surplus amounts of food, allowing more people to devote their attention to matters beyond mere survival. That's...

One of the best ways an instructor can get a large group of learners engaged and interested in the material is to offer an activity that the entire class can participate in. We as humans are social creatures, so it stands to reason that interpersonal interaction along...