eLearning is an evolutionary industry where changes occurs on regular bases. This is due to the reason that learners want new things in new time. These changes have a very significant impact on the end users as well as helps eLearning industry to improve its ranking. As we all know that eLearning industry is involves in every single learning methodology and due to this addition in real life, it has its own place in the market and in the eyes of learners. Here in this post we will look on the new trends that are happening in this industry in the current era.
LMS like Tin Can API
LMS allows the course administrators track the progress of end users and learn how they interact with published courses. Various Learning Management Systems are available for supporting eLearning professionals and industry. Tin Can API is the new and latest LMS in the learning industry that can easily track both formal and informal user learning experience. The advance feature in this is that it is helpful because it allows the training departments to relate productivity with training material. This is equally helpful tool for learners, because for them it is an interface and for developers it is helpful because they can learn course values in the end user’s perspective. Among all of its important features the best one is to track the progress and interaction of end users.
Responsive eLearning
The best eLearning course is to view on cross platforms and on all devices. This is the new learning concept which facilitates the development and design of online courses to show responsive feature to various screen sizes. This cross platform supportability is called responsive design and content. Due to the advance and new technology of eLearning it is simple to develop and design responsive contents easily. With new tools it is simple to develop courses for different screen sizes which saves wasting of time.
Social Learning
Social networks are those which have a wide array of information available on those sites. With huge information available everywhere, the trend of sharing interesting and valuable information, interesting pieces of content as well as news via different social networks like YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Facebook and other like these are the growing by leaps and bounds. The interesting thing is that almost all the LMSs like Moodle supports blogs, discussion on forums, sharing on social networks which are discussed above, messaging, emails and communication through different medias which are widely used to share information on world wide web.
These were some online and latest trends which are important to focus on, because without owning/applying these in the eLearning contents it is hard to grab the attention of end users in effective way.