eLearning: Hype or Hip?

May 29th, 2012 by admin No comments »
ELearning

Many times customers and potential customers ask me whether eLearning is just a passing fad. This is an excellent question that warrants some discussion. My experience with eLearning and more especially with custom eLearning content development has been an extremely positive one. Unfortunately some companies are dismissing the concept of eLearning because they have had a negative experience with it. Recently, I came across a discussion on the Support Insight discussion forum that described eLearning as a hyped solution to training.

I have had the opportunity to speak to many people about their experience with eLearning and the majority of skeptics and naysayer have one thing in common. Predominantly they have all had a negative experience with the development of training materials. The common theme that I have seen is that most of the development work was done without completing a thorough needs analysis. In addition, many companies are guilty of selecting an eLearning vendor without doing the necessary research about what the industry offers and what criteria they should use when selecting an eLearning vendor. The product offerings in the eLearning industry are extremely diverse as are the skills and experience that eLearning vendors’ possess.

Importance of Ecommerce Website

May 29th, 2012 by admin No comments »
Ecommerce

An ecommerce website can convert your brick and mortar store to a web store and make more and more customers by just a mouse click. Web ecommerce design gives you many advantages. Your business remains open 24 hours to your clients. Ecommerce website design extends your presence to distant but prospective clients. Sitting at home or office anyone can view, choose, order, make payment and get delivery of their desired goods instantly. Thus it increases your business and revenue as well.

People these days have become very conscious about their time. They more prefer to buy things online rather than going out for shopping. An ecommerce website enables them to buy their desired goods right from their home. They can use their credit cards for making payments at the ecommerce sites. This easy method of buying goods is much preferred by people and thus along with it the increases the importance of an ecommerce website.

An ecommerce website not only allows one to buy goods for themselves but also they can buy gifts for their friends online. The website provides a section for payment and another section for the shipping address. In case anyone is buying a gift, he can make payment from his personal account and provide the address of his friend. And the gift reaches its destination at the right time. It’s as easy as that to send a gift to your loved ones, and it’s only because of the presence of an ecommerce website.

E-learning

May 29th, 2012 by admin No comments »
ELearning

E-learning contained all forms of electronics support of learning and teaching. It is commonly referred to use of network information and communication technology in teaching and learning. They are various terms used for E-learning like Web-based learning, computer-based learning, online learning, virtual classroom opportunities and digital collaboration. E-learning stands for “electronic learning”. E-learning incorporates all education activities carried by individual or by group. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD-ROM

Types of E-learning:

Individualized self-paced e-learning online: This format depicts the process where the individuals access resources through online via intranet or internet. Like individual conducting research on internet.
Individualized self-paced e-learning offline: This format depicts the process where internet connection is not connected and individual is working. Like an individual working alone through the data available in CD, DVD, or HARD DRIVE.
Group based e-learning synchronously: This format depicts the process where group works together connecting intranet and internet. It may include text based conference, video conference, etc.
Group based e-learning asynchronously: This format depicts the process where group works over the intranet and internet. Like sending mails to group. Not like real time.

E-learning approaches:

Computer based e-learning

Computer based training

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)

Technology-enhanced learning (TEL)

Importance of E-learning:

E-learning may compromises of foreign activities too.

E-learning popularity is growing in all areas of levels of education and training.

E-learning helps to identify the issue or problem for what we are investing.

CMS Based Website – First Priority to Owners for Website Development

May 26th, 2012 by admin No comments »
CMS

With the advancement of time different technologies are emerging which have made various tasks easier and manageable. Maintenance and management of web designs is one of them. It is no more a Herculean task to manage and maintain a web design with the introduction of open source content management systems.

Three very common and widely popular CMS are- Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. With the help of these CMS’s you can create, manage, update and delete content on your website with lot of ease. CMS web designs are a great hit among online businesses; they play a significant role in the progress of businesses. For an online business, website is an identity through which consumers know about its products and services. A website is also a medium to consumers to get in touch with web masters for purchasing any commodity. It is therefore very important that your website should have dynamic features and functions and it should be highly user friendly. An opensource content management system provides you an easy control on your web portal and flexibility. CMS designs are widely accepted all over the world due to their multiple benefits and cost effectiveness.

What is a CMS?

May 24th, 2012 by admin No comments »
CMS

A CMS or Content Management System is usually web based and allows a non-technical customer to make simple changes to their website. CMS usually incorporate WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) controls to make it easier for customers to make changes to text, add images, add hyperlinks and so on. For example, text can be made italics and font size can be increased or decreased using the WYSIWYG controls.

Why use a CMS?

Although a web developer will typically charge you to design and implement a CMS the returns will probably be worth it based on how often you are likely to change the content of your website. If you intend to get ranked well on search engines such as Google then it is best to add new pages or at least change the content of existing pages quite frequently if you intend to get ahead of and stay ahead of the game.

If, however, your website will only be updated once per year, for example, then a CMS will probably not be cost effective.

In this case you might as well phone your web developer everytime you need a change making.

When to use a CMS?

A CMS is handy when you want to make changes to your website quickly and with none or little previous experience of developing website. They are cost effective for companies which change their website quite frequently because the costs of calling up your website company to make changes for you can mount up.