Business leaders and end users are demanding much more from the learning tools they used and consume. Let’s have a quick glance on some important online training and eLearning trends that you may need to consider in 2016. Here in this post you will find three best and useful eLearning training activities that are considering best this year.
Bite-Sized eLearning
These eLearning trainings and events are small with self-contained events and run for one to fifteen minutes. These are basically focused on one or two tightly defined eLearning topics and objectives. There are basically two reasons by which this eLearning trend is going popular in the market. The first one is that learners like it. According to a study that 94% of learners prefer those learning modules or videos which are short in length/duration and provide huge amount of information in less time. This is the best thing of Bite-sized eLearning, because modules of this type are always kept inside 15 minutes. The second reason for its popularity is that, Bite-sized learning modules are flexible. This is due to the reason that this eLearning type use high quality and well known software for constructing modules and courses.
Mobile Learning
In modern days, mobile learning is a way of learning that cannot be ignored. Nowadays smartphones and tablet PCs are everywhere. According to a study more than 90% UK adults have smartphones and almost same result is of the US population. They use smart devices with fast and growing internet connection like with 3G and 4G internet connectivity. This data shows that nowadays it is the time of learning from mobile devices. There is a great room to learn things from mobile devices.
There are multiple tools or you can say that almost all the eLearning tools are jumping on mobile platforms. Sometime in some regions you may not be able to use laptop or desktop to access trainings. But with the help of mobiles/tablet PCs you can easily get connect to the world and can learn what you want on your hand held device.
Data Analytics
Understanding and looking on user’s activities is the most important thing to focus on. Understanding how your end users or learners interact with your learning materials is the first step in any eLearning environment. For example, to keep track of users in your eLearning trainings that how many of them are passed and who attempted how much contents. The new eLearning technologies like Tin Can API or xAPI, Google Analytics and many other like these, helps you to see what you want related to user end and their attempts to your published courses. You can track the end user average time on your course, their number of attempts, their passing score, grads, bounce rate and many other aspects like these. So it becomes important to keep track of things in your course. It is quite simple with these available tools in the eLearning industry. You can use these for free (mostly trial versions) or can purchase one of these.
