10th November 2009
The Web is where many of our customers and users will increasingly “live” for their information needs. This means that anything we do to both deliver e-Learning and spread the word about our products and services “over the Cloud” will both serve o...
12th October 2009
Sometime…oh, around 2004…you probably started hearing buzz about “Web 2.0…The next generation of the Internet.” The term was coined by O'Reilly Media. And though everyone you ask gives you a different definition of the way Web 2.0 should look an...
25th September 2009
What actually is SCORM? SCORM, Shareable Content Object Reference Model, is a standard for web-based e-learning that has been developed to define communication between client-side content and a runtime environment. In the context of this article, the clie...
15th September 2009
You’ve probably heard a lot about “Cloud Computing” (also known as “Software as a Service” or “SaaS”). This refers to a movement to turn computer terminals and notebooks into “client” machines that primarily (or only) execute application...
19th August 2009
The students who began college this year have been dubbed the first “Net Generation,” because they habitually seek, receive, and even expect information to reach them over Web services like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Soon, they will join ...
04th August 2009
At SyberWorks, we’ve developed quite a few courses, and seen many more that others have done. And though course development “best practices” should be common sense, they are often violated. So we wanted to offer our own best guidelines for building ...
18th July 2009
We’re all fond of saying “Know your audience.” But how many of us track our audiences’ rapidly changing demographics? If you’re like me, it’s not a daily action item. But I just received a reminder of how much the audience for my work (and per...
08th July 2009
Using audio in your online course is an extremely important factor in engaging your audience. Studies have shown that courses without audio are less compelling and memorable than courses with audio. Either used as a narration or for directions, audio – ...
11th June 2009
There are two ways a company may purchase a learning management system/learning content management system (LMS/LCMS). They can license the software and host it on their own servers internally, or they can purchase a hosted service where the software is ho...
05th June 2009
On-the-job training (OJT) is common in both large and small organizations. It is usually done informally, with an experienced colleague or mentor overseeing or teaching the trainee. It may take place in a classroom, on the plant floor, or in any other p...
20th March 2009
Many corporations want to integrate their Learning Management Systems with other software that they use to run their businesses. SalesForce.com has become the dominant player in the customer-relationship-manager (CRM) software segment, and since SyberWork...
23rd February 2009
Companies and organizations today use web conferencing in many aspects of their organizations—to conduct meetings, collaborate on projects, demonstrate products and services, and more. Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but the...
06th December 2008
“Ok, we bought an LMS, put up a course and turned it on. We can start using this thing tomorrow.” So says your manager, as you look at him half in shock, and half with that can-do serious face that has got you this far.
Of course nothing is that ea...
20th October 2008
In many ways, good instructional design is just common sense, combined with decades of observation about what works and what doesn’t when teaching adult learners. Here are 10 basic tips to sharpen your own training programs:
1. Know your audience. Un...
18th September 2008
When a company purchases and implements a learning management system (LMS), they often need an interface to connect it to other systems used by the organization such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and others. Interfaces from one system to another are created so dat...
