Resources

We’re not just interested in making a buck. As educators, we’re genuinely interested in pursuing learning excellence for all. As a result, we make the following resources available to increase general knowledge of e-Learning and to assist you in your practice development.

Articles

Online Learning or Shovelware?
Instructional design is the most important skill needed to ensure effective online learning. Well, we've all heard statements like this repeated over and over again.

FSR Training Made Easier
Online Learning Australia has designed and developed an online learning solution to help financial services organisations comply with the Tier 2 training requirements of Policy Statement 146 (PS 146).

e-Learning: Managing Success
The implementation of an e-Learning platform is arduous. The program of work includes analysis of business requirements, resolution of technical issues, selection of an appropriate Learning Management System (LMS) and vendor negotiations as well as rigorous management of multi-discipline teams through the implementation process.
Written by David Holmes and Cedric Richardson, Online Learning Australia

Hey Wiki, what the blog is an RSS?
Just when you think you’ve finally got it all under control, along comes something new on the learning stage to keep you feeling just a little bit befuddled. RSS? Wiki? Blog? Huh? What does this all mean?

Authoring Tools: Friend or foe?
Did the introduction of web page development software, like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, render web designers extinct? I believe the answer to this question is a resounding “no”. While these tools certainly enabled more people to have a presence on the web, we typically didn’t see better websites as a result.

Whitepapers

What Makes e-Learning Work?
Ten principles of e-learning instructional design that your provider should be considering, to ensure your courses are effective.

e-Learning 101
As HR budgets contract, companies look for more economic ways to deliver their training. While e-Learning is now considered high on the list of cost-savers, too often organisations fail to devise focused strategies, squandering benefits on costly implementations.