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Enspark Breaking New Ground In eLearning

Enspark, an eLearning company, is a local business breaking new ground in educational technology and custom elearning development. Their website (http://www.enspark.com) showcases some of the latest advances in digital learning and training solutions that you’re likely to see in businesses and schools in coming days.

Bonus: Check out Enspark’s latest free customizable elearning game.

Three Areas that Stand to Change the Face of eLearning

Instructional and educational technologists who see value in eLearning are constantly finding new ways to answer and rebut arguments against it. eLearning and its implementations may be considered still in an infancy stage, but will evolve as quickly as its creators adapt and innovate with new tools like augmented reality development, interactive courseware, etc. A few of the areas that most likely to change the eLearning landscape:

• mLearning. The next revolution in personal computing has come in the palms of our hands. While many still spend a great deal of time on personal computers, the huge degree of penetration by mobile devices into mainstream society has got us all wondering how learning happens for a very mobile population. Maybe mLearning, much like e-mail or e-commerce, will eventually seem like a misnomer because that’s how we’ll all use the internet of the [very near] future.
• Social Learning and Collaboration. Let’s face it: whether you like Facebook or not, it (and sites like it) have changed the face of the internet. And although users already spend over 300 percent more time on Facebook than Google, social media websites are continuing to find ways to keep users on their sites longer. The wild popularity of social tools like Facebook has left educational technologists questioning the value traditional, lonely, self-paced learning. Is learning more effective (if not at least more exciting) in groups, collaboratively?
• Accountability. Similar to early ventures by brick and mortar stores into e-commerce, eLearning is too young to be able to give stakeholders solid ROI reports, benchmarks, and actionable insights. But with recession-constricted budgets, uneducated workforces, and pressing training needs banging on the door, eLearning will have to find a way to prove its value and place.  Once it’s seen as worthwhile and budget-worthy cause then the learning analytics and data can focus more on optimizing and solving for the learner rather than justifying its existence.

eLearning has been seeing amazing changes in our society. The ways people work, access information, communicate, socialize and even consume (think consumers) has changed in basic, fundamental ways. And, inevitably, the way that they learn will change too.

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