Top 2017 Content Explores Latest Tools, Strategies—and Myths

Learning Solutionshad a great year, publishing hundreds of features, columns, and short articlesaimed at helping eLearning professionals discover new technologies, tools, andstrategies to better engage and inform learners across industries and aroundthe world.

Here, we highlight our top 2017 content. The 10 most-read Learning Solutions articles in 2017were, from number 10 to number 1:

10. VR and AR in eLearning: Ready for Prime Time?

Virtual reality and augmented reality are relatively newtechnologies to most eLearning professionals. At Guild events, especially Realities360,participants can explore their potential. LearningSolutions endeavors to cover the many ways that people are already bringingthese technologies into eLearning—as well as some of the barriers to wideradoption.

9. Hot or Not: How Do MOOCs Fit into Corporate eLearning?

When MOOCs hit the big time, they were hailed as a way toeducate the masses. Learning Solutionsdigs into the role of MOOCs and their future potential in the corporateeLearning arena.

8. The Ageless SME: Logic Puzzles, Articulate Storyline 2, and a Seven-Year-Old Math Whiz

Instructional designer Marlia Weisse notes the parallelsbetween working with her young son on a design project—and working with SMEsprofessionally. Along the way, she captures some insights about theinstructional design process.

7. Portrait of the Modern Learner

Constant access to digital devices and an always-availableflood of information has changed consumer behavior dramatically. Learning Solutions explores what thismeans for individuals’ behavior and expectations as learners.

6. L&D Digital Transformation Begins with Rethinking the LMS

Digital learning has not only affected the way modernlearners learn, but also the way eLearning professionals package and delivereLearning. In this feature, JD Dillon urges L&D professionals to lookbeyond the traditional LMS when weighing content delivery platforms andoptions.

5. Making eLearning Video in a Department of One

Countless L&D pros work in departments of one. Theyalone design, develop, and support eLearning for their organizations. Here, Learning Solutions offers solutions forthose intrepid developers who want to produce engaging video content for their learners—solo. Along with equipment suggestions, authorStephen Haskin suggests ways to stay motivated and hone the skills needed tocreate video as a team of one.

4. The Mandela Effect in Your Learning

The “Mandela effect” refers to the phenomenon of people“remembering” things they’ve never experienced. Author Phil Cowcill appliesthis concept to eLearning to describe how to identify learners’ gaps inknowledge or understanding. The next step is identifying where, among the “FourStages of Competence,” learners need to be—and figuring out how to bridge thatgap with a training plan.

3. Microlearning in China

Microlearning is playing a growing role in the eLearninglineup worldwide. Writers Zhaoliang Qiu and Wei He share with Learning Solutions their research on theawareness and use of this emerging learning strategy in China.

2. Adaptive Learning: Five Common Misconceptions

Learning Solutionsdelves into a misunderstood term—and concept—in eLearning and shares what adaptive learning is, and what it is not. Learn how it’s different from personalizedlearning and where adaptive learning might fit into a corporate training strategy.

1. Next-Generation eLearning: Learning Quests Combine Original Content, Story, Curation, and Gamification

What is a “learning quest”? In this most-read article of2017, find the answer to that question and explore how to update eLearning tosuit the way people learn, use new tools and approaches, and generally movetraining into the digital age.