Learn the Universal E-Learning Content Tenets for Successful LMS Content

If your e-learning content is prepared and ready to migrate to a learning management system listen up.

To ensure its success on the marketplace and/or its effectiveness with your own organization, consider a few simple key concepts.

As I've written before, strong learning material is grounded on extensive research as well as your own personal experience, and because everyone has different strengths and interests, learning styles, teaching styles, and so on, not every piece of advice offered to you regarding your online course will apply.

But one crucial and fairly universally important element of a good e-learning course is early and detailed communication with students. So what kind of information is essential to provide early on in your e-learning course?

Mainly, you'll need to provide some pre-course basic training on how to use the learning management system, e-learning course, and/or other online tools. If collaborative tools like wikis or discussion boards are involved, you should clearly indicate how you'd like students to participate.

Teach students about course navigation with the use of videos, taking advantage of the simple-to-use video creation tools that LMSs like Coggno offer. Video tours are an easy and fun way to reach students quickly and effectively with important information. And presenting this information in a visually interesting way will help ensure that this important information is delivered successfully.

Of course, the three basic tenets of human communication are gesture, speech, and visuals. So the online fusion of these three elements recreates the natural ways we humans communicate in face-to-face communication. Using these three aspects--especially the emotional signals of tone and voice--helps you to create a sense of trust in the virtual learning environment.

Another guideline to successful communication with students--and something that will help ensure their comfort and ease working with your e-learning course--is developing a clear course outline or syllabus. A syllabus provides a space for courseware developers and educators to break down into simple bites the course expectations and goals for learners. This information must be presented before any actual learning begins, to ensure best communication with students.
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