E-learning Uncovered
DECEMBER 6, 2012
When I’m working with a new client and ask for the company’s style guide, I often get a blank look. Until I ask that question, people are often using their own standards, rather than a true “style”–so we create one with them! Here are the things you may want to know if you don’t already have and use a style guide for your e-learning courses. What is a style guide?
E-learning Uncovered
MARCH 27, 2012
I was raised in a household where video games were not allowed. My mother believed they were a waste of time, had no value, and – worse – could have negative effects. While she was right about the idea that video games CAN have negative effects (as researchers have shown that violent videogames can alter brain function), games can have value. We have created games that present value in e-learning courses by using them to teach content and test knowledge.
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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.
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.
E-learning Uncovered
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
As of February, 2012, 19% of American adults own a tablet (with a prediction that this number will increase significantly [some predict it will more than double like it did in 2011] by then end of the year). As the use of tablets increases, chances are good the people taking online courses will want to access them from the comfort of their tablets–whether you designed the courses to be tablet-friendly or not!
E-learning Uncovered
AUGUST 23, 2012
“Can our users take this new course on an Android device? “I love the new course you designed. It will look the same on an iPad, right?”. “We want our employees to access all our existing training on a Windows tablet. Is that a problem?”. Answering these questions requires you to test your training in these mobile environments. What’s the best way to do that?
E-learning Uncovered
JULY 2, 2012
When we talk to clients about audio narration, they all say they want it to sound natural and conversational. While the voice talent plays a big role in that, your writing style plays even a bigger role. For many writers, the most difficult thing about creating storyboards is writing narration that is conversational – or sounds like the average person is speaking when the narrator reads it.
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