Have a look at this article by Clark Quinn.
Too much of e-learning is inadvertently designed to minimize effectiveness. Online courses often fail to engage the learner's interest and what we know about how people learn isn't applied, among other problems. Remember that the desired outcome of a learning intervention is a change in behavior; it's all about doing, not learning. Our goals for any such learning initiative, then, should be to sustain that change over time.
What follows is a distillation of cognitive research on learning intended to make your e-learning more effective, and to create a better experience for the learner. These seven principles integrate cognitive and emotional components of learning, and the more that happens, the greater the outcomes.
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Clark Quinn's blog Learnlets
Source: eLearn Magazine