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Tips For Creating A Site Map By Rachel Gawith Tips on Creating a Site Map A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site mapinitially threw up many links to software you could buy ordownload for free to create a site map. But why do you need a site map? (Article continued below)
Basically as websites get larger and more complex both thehuman browser and the search engine spiders need an easy tofollow map to find all the pages within your site. A sitemap gives them a simple navigational tool. Site maps have 3 main benefits: 1) A site map allows visitors to easily find what they arelooking for by simply
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Online University Design
An online university is a web site that provides a complete "one-stop shop" for all your employees' training
needs. By logging into an online university, your employees obtain information about newly released training
programs, guidance on the programs that are appropriate for them, registration services for both online and
classroom courses, and immediate access to their training records.
Online universities are not the exclusive province of large corporations. Small and midsize firms that do not
have their own private networks can provide online university services to their employees using an ASP
(Application Solution Provider) model. Many of the key features of online universities are now offered by a
national and international suppliers on an outsourced basis.
How to Teach Adult Learners
Many aspects of teaching adults are fundamentally different than those employed in teaching children.
Andragogy is a word popularized at the end of the twentieth century to describe the difference. This article
by D. Verne Morland, managing partner of ROI Learning Services, highlights the important principles in
teaching adults and suggests how they can be applied to business training.
How to Write Instructional Articles
Instructional articles are very different from articles in reference manuals, product brochures, or even
professional literature. This article by Herbert L. Bivens, chief learning officer of ROI Learning Services,
defines instructional articles and describes how to write them.
Put Earn in Your Learning
Many companies view training as a component of their employee benefits package - an expense to be controlled,
not an investment to be maximized. This attitude is dangerously outdated. Survival in today's global economy
requires continuous, cost-effective, world-class training. This article by D. Verne Morland, managing partner
of ROI Learning Services, explains how to identify the "earn" in learning and measure the results
as you would with any other business investment.
Online and Blended Course Development
Online courses are self-contained, independent-study programs delivered via the worldwide web. They may be
relatively simple and short, delivering a little knowledge when and where it is needed. Or they may be
sophisticated, multimedia learning experiences that engage students for many hours over several sittings.
Online courses are primarily useful for conveying new information; they are less effective in conveying and
rehearsing new skills and in motivating students to apply their new knowledge.
Blended courses use a combination or blend of instructional methods and delivery technologies to convey
information, skills, and motivation to students. Blended courses offer almost all of the same instructional
methods and benefits as classroom courses, but with the distinct benefit of being delivered virtually.
ROI Learning Services has the expertise to identify which type of course is best for your company's
learning needs and we can deliver high quality programs that will have a measurable impact on your
business results.
Designing Online Courses for Adult Learners
At most schools of education aspiring teachers are taught the elements of pedagogy – the art and science
of teaching children. Many aspects of teaching adults are fundamentally different than those employed in
teaching children and for this reason a new word gained currency in the late 20th century – andragogy. This
article highlights the important principles in teaching adults and suggests teaching strategies to support
these principles in online courses for higher education and corporate learning programs.
ROI Learning Scorecard [tm]
The ROI Learning Scorecard [tm] is based on the Balanced Scorecard concept created in 1992 by Dr. Robert S.
Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton. Having a balanced scorecard requires you to plan, manage, and measure your
organization from four perspectives: 1) The Learning and Growth Perspective, 2) The Business Process
Perspective, 3) The Customer Perspective, and 4) The Financial Perspective. This philosophy is consistent
with ROI Learning's holistic approach to training and organization development. By using our ROI
Learning Scorecard your company will focus on and invest in the right programs to build and nurture a
continuous learning organization.
Education Consulting
Survival in today's global economy requires world-class performance. World-class performance requires continuous,
cost-effective, world-class learning. The consulting and course development services provided by ROI Learning
enable businesses in all industries to achieve world-class learning results while maximize the return on their
learning investments.
How to Save Money on Training
Significant cost savings can be achieved by using technology to deliver training outside the traditional
classroom. This article illustrates the component costs of a hypothetical two-day classroom course delivered
to 20 students ten times a year and explains the significant reduction in training costs that can be achieved
by using a "blended" delivery approach.
How to Use Training to Improve Your Business Results
Training your employees is an investment in your business and like any smart investment it should have a
good rate of return. Although training is not the solution to every problem, where it fits it can improve
your sales and sales productivity; it can lower your costs and improve your gross margin; and it can bring
expenses into line and increase your profitability. This article explains that by investing in the right
programs managers will clearly see the business results and will, at the same time, be creating a highly
competitive, continuous learning organization.
List of Services
ROI Learning is a full-service consulting and development firm for technology-enhanced training. We have
the experience to help you accomplish all of your training objectives. We can help you: analyze your
training needs, start a training program, reduce your training costs, increase your training effectiveness,
reach new audiences cost-effectively, develop and deliver online training programs, and measure the impact
of training on your business. We can also take a more holistic approach and help you with your education
strategy, tactics, programs, and success measures.
visiting your site map and clickingon the link to go directly to the page they want to visit. 2) Often technologies employed to assist in reading webpagessuch as web page readers and screen readers can only followtext links. For practical reasons it may not always be possible to show a text link to every other page within your site onyour main page and other pages within your website and souse a site map. 3) Search engine spiders like text and text links. If they cannot follow a text link to a page of your site it may notget indexed. Make it easy for the spider to index all yourpages through a site map. A site map consists of the two things search engines love - text and keywords. To build a good site map combine relevantkeywords with a hyper text links. For example on your site mapyou may have a link to your webpage about website promotion soyour hyperlink should contains the words 'website promotion'and link directly to that page within your site. A site map does not need and indeed should not be fancy, but should be clear and easy to navigate. Here are some tips for a good site map: 1. Place a prominent link to your site map on every page andlable it SITE MAP. 2. It should show all your webpages through different levelsas basic text links. 3. Use standard colours for links and visited links. 4. It should show a quick, easy to follow over view of the sitewithout the need to scroll around in the web browser. Google started allowing people to submit site maps to theiraccount as a way of letting google know about all your webpagesand updates to your site. It does not increase your page rankingat all but is worth taking the time to set up properly. You can find free software for creating site maps at: http://www.likno.com/sitemap.html http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/ http://www.sitemapspal.com/ And when you are done, don't forget to tell Google about yoursite map so they can trawl and hopefully index all the pages of your site. http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login A well planned site map can ensure your Web site is fully indexed by search engines. (c) Rachel Gawith Rachel runs her own homebased business website at ComputerIncome.netwhich recommends a couple of excellent online businesses and promotional tools.Subscribe to Rachel's free weekly newsletter FreeDailyCashfor more tips and information on working from home and get FREE advertising. | Sign In |
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