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Anki – spaced repetition flashcard system to learn & retain technical knowledge

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:

  • learning a language
  • studying for medical and law exams
  • memorizing people's names and faces
  • brushing up on geography
  • mastering long poems
  • even practicing guitar chords! 

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Tips & Tricks for Successful e-Learning Development & Deployment

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This is an interesting article originally appeared on FlashFlex.com which focuses on e-Learning designed to train users how to use software, web-based applications and soft skill simulation. Many of the principles discussed here, however, can be applied to other kinds of e-Learning as well.

These seven tips are based on my extensive experience developing related e-Learning. They are not presented in any specific order in terms of importance or timing.  It is worth noting that in an ideal world, software would be designed, or at least customized, with your users and their work processes in mind. Applications would have intuitive interfaces and would offer functionality that corresponds to the tasks that users need to perform. Remember, users want to accomplish tasks, not use features of an application. e-Learning, no matter how instructionally sound or well constructed, cannot compensate for broken processes, poorly designed systems, or software that is not user-centered in its design.

  1. Use e-Learning as part of a broader solution
  2. Use a modular approach
  3. Design menus and navigation that are appropriate to the content
  4. Make the e-Learning interactive
  5. Incorporate multimedia elements
  6. Provide an overview before getting into the details
  7. Consider deployment issues early

Conclusion

Just as software needs to be user centric in its design, so too does e-Learning. Keeping the user central to all aspects of e-Learning development (including content identification, development, organization, presentation, and access) will help you to create e-Learning that
works. And planning ahead by anticipating the impact of the technical environment will help you deploy that e-Learning successfully.

The tips discussed above are by no means an exhaustive list, but following them should contribute to more successful e-Learning and,  therefore, a more successful software implementation.

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