E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

After attending the recent DevLearn 2012 conference and working with clients on mobile e-learning development, I’ve come to believe that the questions you ask (or don’t ask) can be much more important than the solutions you develop. Here are the questions I find most important to ask when working with a client on a new mobile e-learning course. 1.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

As an e-learning project manager/designer/developer/writer/editor/[insert current hat here], it can be frustrating to stumble onto an error in your course. Whether it is an error on the title slide of the course or one hidden on a screen we hope won’t ever be noticed, it’s an unwelcome event to find a mistake. To help minimize missed errors, I put together this list of the places errors hide.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Rod and I had the chance to go to Las Vegas last week for DevLearn 12. Here are some of my top takeaways. Tin Can API. Tin Can API (now called Experience API) is being called the next generation of SCORM. (And we learned at the conference that it may become the next generation of AICC as well.) I t’s a new way to track learning experiences that extend beyond completing courses.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I’m sitting in my office right now, working on an e-learning course with Election Day coverage on the TV. This got me thinking about how great our country is. We get the option to have our voice heard and our vote counted, which many find inspiring and motivating. What if we did the same thing in our e-learning courses? According to a session I attended at Learning 2012, The Learner’s Evolution , that’s a great way to capture the interest of our audience.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I’ve read some really fantastic books and some not-so-wonderful books. When it comes to e-learning, Dr. Susan Weinschenk has put together a fantastic list of 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People. She’s combined the industry research on how people learn with her personal experiences to create a book that’s easy to follow, and easy to pick up and put down as needed.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiple-choice questions are often maligned by instructional designers. I’ve heard the following at conferences. “Multiple-choice questions don’t measure anything.”. “It’s too easy to guess them.”. “Real life doesn’t have multiple-choice questions, so why should our course?”. So are they truly that evil? No, they aren’t if they are used properly.

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