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Why is eLearning an effective investment?

 

An effective eLearning product that’s developed with instructional design’s best practices in mind can help a company obtain a successful learning process, therefore justifying your investment.

Nonetheless, eLearning has several tangible advantages that increase the effectiveness of your investment. These advantages are: 

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eLearning: the key to developing human capital

 

Current companies need to compete with products or services that live up to international quality standards and whose delivery is met on time and it surpasses all expectations. Today there’s even more pressure, local markets have become global and there’s a need to adapt to change in order to stay productive.

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Have you identified best practices? It’s time to standardize them!

 

Take a look at your surroundings for a moment and observe the different tasks performed…

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Do I have a tool or a solution in my organization?

 

Questions and answers for eLearning implementation

Pablo A. Piquemilh- Implementation Management at Aura Interactiva 

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Check out SHIFT's four new eLearning games!

 

SHIFT's Game Engine continues to expand, with the addition of four new screens. Now you have more interactive and engaging options to include in your courses! 

What are the game screens?: The game screens allow the learner to review the subjects studied on the unit or topic by answering single choice questions with the extra challenge of winning the sport event or situation of the game. These screens bring a playful element to the elearning course, giving the student a chance to have a break and review the main concepts studied.

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Training while playing… what do you think?: Games in elearning

 

eLearning serious games: creativity and motivation

Its followers indicate that its use motivates, promotes participation and breaks monotony, but above it all, it lets the student/collaborator improve his/her performance.

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eLearning: when talking about “days” isn’t enough

 
  • Do you remember that old saying “time is gold”? There are few proverbs as relevant in our days and in the eLearning industry as this one. 

  • Take a minute to reflect on it moment… ¿How would your organization be if it could reduce 1/10 of the development time and effort? 


There’s a formula called Real Time Development and it is mainly based in real time content development. This formula seeks to break current paradigms and transform the actual process into the new way of creating eLearning.

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SHIFT Wins Silver Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award

 

SHIFT a leader in innovative in the eLearning environment, won a coveted Brandon Hall Silver award for excellence in the Technology for Testing or Learning Evaluation category.

SHIFT’S win was announced on January 25, 2012. The winners are listed at Brandon Hall's Website.

"For the third straight year SHIFT wins a Brandon Hall Award.  In categories as diverse as Rich Media Authoring, Rapid Authoring, Testing and Evaluation and this year, for SHIFT's Game Engine.  All these 6 awards won for one eLearning authoring tool.  Testimony of the flexibility and breadth of SHIFT's capabilities." Said Randolf Kissling, CEO of Aura Interactiva, the developers of SHIFT.

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm in training and development. The Learning Technology Awards program showcases innovations in the products in the marketplace for creating and managing learning, talent, and performance.

"2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology. This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results. Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes.  I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet" said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group.

About SHIFT

SHIFT is used by organizations that need to get more eLearning done, faster and more efficiently.  SHIFT is an award winning authoring system that has the necessary elements to empower a user to create rich, interactive courses, with no technical knowledge, rapidly.  By using SHIFT, the user has access to all the necessary elements to create an effective and great looking course anywhere at any time. Automated, smart interface interactions, games, simulations, media recording, and scenario builders, available in one integrated package. SHIFT allows for specialization of labor, collaboration, review, update and content reutilization that will make large eLearning development teams dramatically more effective and more productive.

About Brandon Hall Group

Having worked with more than 10,000 clients globally and after 20 years of delivering world-class solutions, Brandon Hall Group is the preeminent research and analyst organization focused on developing research-driven solutions to drive organizational performance for emerging and large organizations.  Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research, data and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Sales Effectiveness, Marketing Impact, and Executive Management. For more information visit: (www.brandonhall.com)

Join us in Las Vegas, ASTD TechKnowledge 2012

 
We are thrilled to be exhibiting at the upcoming ASTD Techknowledge 2012 in Las Vegas January 25- 27.

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in more than 130 U.S. chapters and with more than 30 international partners. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.

ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 will welcome more than 1,200 people who focus their daily attention on the design and delivery, management and strategy of technology and learning. Attendees will come together alongside 70 exhibitors in the learning technology space to learn, network, and move people forward through the application of learning and technology.

We invite you to join us at booth #303 and learn how the latest updates to SHIFT can benefit you, demo new products, and course – meet the members of the SHIFTteam!

Also come and discover our on-site promotions!

Please register here. You will be instructed to enter a unique invitation number, which is: 2883.

We look forward to seeing you!



October'S Updates in SHIFT

 
New eLearning Game
Tennis is the newest sport offered by SHIFT's Game Engine where students will be able to compete to win a challenge. 

The tennis game in SHIFT's Game Engine lets users add single choice questions that can be answered correctly in order to win the Tennis Cup.

 

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