More and more businesses are finding eLearning solutions to be a successful and cost-effective way of solving their training needs; unfortunately, just as many companies are running into a host of problems with the development and implementation of their eLearning projects. Once these problems are identified, the solutions can be developed; many of those solutions can be provided by the SHIFT.

eLearning developers, educators and HR departments have been trying for years to attract attention for their learners and come up with innovative ways to engage them. One idea after another is implemented in the hopes that each course finishes with excellent results. But why so many fail? In this post, we want to share with you what most eLearning developers miss when creating an eLearning course.

When you're developing eLearning content for your company's training needs, you want your material to be engaging and interesting, but above all effective. You will need management buy-in for the training course's approval, so your eLearning content will have to be something that your manager feels comfortable describing to his manager.

A common refrain heard by eLearning program developers is that using eLearning software is boring. Often, learners find using many eLearning programs to be dull and passive activity, making them unlikely to retain the information the programs offer. As developers clearly want to create successful eLearning programs, they incorporate features intended to make the program more interactive and less dull. Colorful graphics, animations and video, quizzes, drag-and-drop content, and other features are used prominently to make the learner feel more engaged with the content. So why don't they work?

How do you bring the spark back into a boring eLearning course and inject some personality into them? Well, it's all about approaching your course with a little creativity and extra work. Don't worry! In this post you'll learn how to avoid the Boring eLearning Syndrome.

If you want to create engaging courses you should start considering one main factor: relevance. This means creating compelling courses that speak directly to your audience.

Don't waste another day trying to figure out what the heck to do to get your learners engaged and actually expecting them to remember everything you present them in every course. This post will cover one main concept that will lead you to successful eLearning design: "chunking information”.

Learners have always been pretty hesitant to jump in head first with taking eLearning courses. What usually happens with eLearning? They end up leaving the course because content does not impart plausible information such that learners feel the problems they encounter in their workplace are addressed realistically by the learning. That means a whole lot of wasted time. What a bummer. Specially, how many times, have students taken courses or training they end up believing is irrelevant and meaningless. Well, take that experience and NEVER apply it in the eLearning projects you develop.