Your Role as a Client in Custom eLearning Production: What to Expect
When you hire a vendor to create custom eLearning, it’s easy to think, “Great! They’ll take it from here.” But the truth is, as the client, you play a vital role in the success of the project. Your input, decisions, and feedback are critical to…
How to Choose the Right Custom eLearning Services for Your Organization: A 2025 Guide
The $400 Billion Question That’s Keeping Training Directors Up at Night When Sarah, a training director at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, realized her employees were retaining only 8% of what they learned in traditional classroom sessions, she knew something had to change. Fast-forward six…
6 Tips for Maximizing SME Contributions in E-learning
As an instructional designer or course developer, you know the importance of identifying the right objectives to support your topic. No matter what the topic or learning objectives, though, every e-learning course actually has the same purpose: to convey knowledge to an audience of learners….
Facing an Unanticipated Challenge
Has your e-learning development team ever faced a challenge? Before you answer, you should know that we’re not talking about the everyday challenges inherent to developing training. We’re talking about a challenge that was unexpected, that you’d never encountered before, and that had the potential…
Using Partnerships for Better eLearning
When you work with an outside firm on your eLearning efforts, if you (and they) play the cards right, you may get even more than the talents of two organizations. Over the years, Illumina has built a strong set of complementary partnerships, to add capabilities…
An E-Learning Contract That Helps You Succeed
So you’ve selected an outside vendor to help with your company’s e-learning project – or you’re that vendor who’s just been awarded said e-learning project – everyone’s excited to get to work. But there’s this small matter of getting a contract in place as quickly…
The Nuts & Bolts of Illumina’s Development Process Toolkit
A custom eLearning design and development firm like ours uses a diverse blend of creative design, media authoring and programming tools in our business. However, from time to time we get asked about the kinds of tools and applications we use to manage our elearning and blended…
The Top 5 Causes for Delays in eLearning Course Development, and How to Crush Them
Can You Relate? Posted by Jim Adelson on Mon, 06/04/2018 – 16:35 We’ve all been there. Working on creating new courses, knowing how much they’ll help learners, only to see benefits diminish and enthusiasm wane as the development gets delayed. Not only that, when course development takes…
Building eLearning: Behind the Scenes with Project Management
This fall we’ve been touring the flip side of Illumina’s work, meeting the members of the team it takes to create world-class elearning. We introduced you to an infographic of our team approach to elearning courseware creation, and have already introduced you to John Scarano,…
Scoring Extra Points at the Kickoff (Meeting)
Project kickoffs: What’s your team’s game plan? Hut… Hut… Red 32… Omaha… Set… HIKE!Yeah, you can probably tell that some of us are getting a little antsy with football season still so far off, and just can’t wait for that opening game kickoff. And speaking…