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Spaced Odyssey: How Spaced-Retrieval Improves Learning

eLearning Alchemy

JANUARY 25, 2017

Length : 848 words. Reading Time : ~4.5 minutes. The term “brain science” gets a lot of play these days. We’ve moved into an age where information is ubiquitous and learning is a survival skill. Understanding how we learn and applying that knowledge has maybe never been more important. Yet, here we are, still trapping adult learners in training rooms and trying to force feed them months of information in day-long training sessions with no follow-up.

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5 TED Talks (and Big Questions) for Adult Learning Professional

eLearning Alchemy

JANUARY 18, 2017

f schools kill creativity, does corporate training kill leadership? Most of these TED Talks aren’t new; however, as an adult learning professional you may have skipped them or not considered them too deeply. The best TED Talks on education focus on reforming education for children. It’s a curious conundrum then that a lot of what we’re finding creates the best learning experiences for children is to treat them like adults.

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Ready Player None: The Pitfalls of Gamification

eLearning Alchemy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Length: 777 words. Reading Time: ~3.5 minutes. It’s hard to have missed the rise of gamification in the learning industry over the past few years. Self-proclaimed gamification “experts” have seemingly dropped from the sky to fill our conferences and social media channels. It’s hard to ignore gamification when the global revenue in the learning games market is expected to reach nearly $9 Billion in 2017.

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Deconstructing Design IV: Learning Escape Room (Part 2 – The Escape)

eLearning Alchemy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Length: 1374 words. Reading Time: ~6.5 minutes. Deconstructing Design (DD) is a blog series dedicated to reviewing an instructional design challenge, output, or experience. Readers are encouraged to confirm, challenge, or improve on the logic presented. Context. After building an escape room with conference participants (described in Part 1 – “The Build” ), it was time to let other conference goers become escapees.

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SKETCHNOTE: Learning Escape Rooms

eLearning Alchemy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Reading is hard. So, here’s a sketchnote about escape rooms for learning.

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Why Won’t “Millennials” Just Die?

eLearning Alchemy

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Length: 881 words. Reading Time: ~4.5 minutes. What’s got me fired up… After attending two conferences recently, I’ve given up all hope: “Millennials” just won’t die. Unmanageable, un-loyal, un-motivated and now un-killable. It’s like they’re some kind of super zombie… or, that’s at least how they’re treated.

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SKETCHNOTE: Gamification

eLearning Alchemy

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Take a break from regular blogs and enjoy this gamification sketchnote. How many stars are in this sketchnote? How many people are in this sketchnote? How many times do the words gamification or game appear?

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You Suck at Instructional Design

eLearning Alchemy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Length: 1329 words. Reading Time: ~6 minutes. Yep, you. You suck at Instructional Design. Okay, maybe that’s not true, I don’t know you and I’ve probably never seen your work. However, given that 80-90% of the learning products being flogged online are absolute garbage, there’s a pretty good chance you suck. It’s worth asking yourself: “ Do I suck at Instructional Design?

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The NEXT Big Thing in eLearning

eLearning Alchemy

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Length: 876 words. Reading Time: ~4 minutes. Over the past decade eLearning has gone through a rapid transformation. Once cumbersome processes requiring specialized skills have been replaced with rapid authoring tools. Expensive digital assets like fonts, images, and graphics have been replaced by free and inexpensive resources. Buzzwords like gamification, micro-learning, mobile-learning, adaptive learning, rapid authoring, branching scenarios and responsive design have come with the promise of

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The ROI Disease is Killing L&D

eLearning Alchemy

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Length: 1032 words. Reading Time: ~ 5 minutes. If you work in L&D, it’s going to happen: You’ll be sitting at your desk basking in the glow of a learning program that was delivered flawlessly. Learner feedback is excellent and anecdotal evidence shows learners are actually applying their learning on-the-job. Then, the VP of HR will walk up to your desk and say: “Can you please tell me what the ROI of this project is?

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Deconstructing Design V: Sliders and Lego

eLearning Alchemy

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Length: 1010 words. Reading Time: ~4.5 minutes. Deconstructing Design (DD) is a blog series dedicated to reviewing an instructional design challenge, output, or experience. Readers are encouraged to confirm, challenge, or improve on the logic presented. Context. What do you do when your 8-year-old nephew says he wants you to teach him to code? Obviously, you figure out how to make Lego a part of the project.

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Change Requires Discipline, Not Willpower

eLearning Alchemy

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Length: 1196 words. Reading Time: ~6 minutes. Over the next few weeks your social media channels will be flooded with advice about how to keep your New Year’s resolution. It’s a hot topic and despite all the articles 90% of people failed to stick with their resolution last year. There’s lots of advice, and very little follow-through. What you already know….

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5 Big Ideas for Learning Professionals in 2017

eLearning Alchemy

JANUARY 4, 2017

Length : 1301 words. Reading Time : ~6.5 minutes. Summary. Wait? What? The summary goes at the end, no? You’re busy. You may not have time to read the whole blog. If not, just read the following short summary and carry on. If you like what you see, read more. In 2017 : Get better. Create better. Decide how you’re going to get better and plan to do it.

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