If you’d like to break out of the same old routine, and produce some real results you need to try something new.

At SHIFT eLearning, we are so lucky to have the brightest contributors talking about everything from eLearning strategy to instructional design.

2012 was a fantastic year for eLearning. As we are beginning a new year, we thought it would be interesting to collect SHIFT’s most popular blog posts from the past year and revisit them as a Greatest Hits collection.

As you build your eLearning courses, it’s important not only making sure you’re keeping your learner’s interest and that you’re keeping them motivated, but also that you’re getting out the best outcome. You need an engagement plan! Use the ENGAGE model as your guide.

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?