How to satisfy the never ending and growing needs of learners in the eLearning industry. It is in fact the most difficult question, because every single time thing is getting changed in the industry besides eLearning processes as well as procedures of eLearning development. Here in this article some of the latest trends are short listed which will help you in the development of latest and up to date eLearning stuff.
Following are the latest and the most popular eLearning trends that you should follow for your content if you want success in market.
Personalization
The main purpose of personalization is to produce and develop independent parts of learning while keeping the demand and choices of end users in mind. These small chunks of contents are portable parts and are easy to assess. These parts can be updated easily as compare to large volume contents of eLearning. This personalization of contents can also be achieved by adjusting the pace of instructions and the student interest. It also evolves: provide learners multiple options to choose their own path and pace from and help them to adjust contents by choosing text, images and other multimedia contents in the course.
Automation
We are used to the eLearning term called “Rapid eLearning Development”. In this concept the automation is performed in a wide range. In rapid eLearning everything is managed like design time, cost, efforts and other aspects are slashed down substantially. Automated technologies are used for the purpose of accurate assessment, questions, tests, exercises and lots of other details in the course contents of eLearning. Nowadays with the help of these automated tools eLearning developers and designers work hard in improving the quality of contents and linking the contents to the storyboard/context.
Augmented Learning
It evolves learning including touch screens, voice recognition, AI interaction with the system and various other such aspects. Augmented learning is an increasing trend and it has its own importance in the learning industry. It is nowadays a developed concept in the industry and occurs like a magical technology. Augmented learning makes users able to learn things quickly and with the best/improved user interface.
Corporate eLearning
Improving employee learning skills is one of the most important part of success. Skilled employee is the sign of a successful company. eLearning has proven to the most cost effective option for the employee learning needs. Professional development is easy to achieve through eLearning contents. Successful organizations work on employee growth rather than their own desires.
eLearning trends come and go each year. But there are some that refuse to budge from the “popular” list. This simply means that these eLearning trends are working well with learners and eLearning developers need to polish these skills further.
Some new educational technology tools have been entered the “popular” list; and while we have skeptics and naysayers to these eLearning trends, we also have a rising group of digital eLearners who are willing to adopt anything new and exciting. Whether the new ones will stay on the list or the old ones will go, only time will tell.
Mobile Learning or mLearning
Nowadays this is the era of mobile technology. No business is successful without a mobile app. The reason behind this is that nowadays almost all the users have mobile phones in their hands and they use these for computing needs. Due to this mobile learning plays a very important rule in making businesses successful. But to achieve this goal, your contents should be user friendly and cross platform compatible. The latest automated tools are used to produce contents that are supported by cross platforms such as mobiles, laptops, tablets etc. The responsive power of modern rapid eLearning tools makes it possible to target all the major devices currently available in the market for end users.