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eLearning for Culture Change

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'By Shelley A. Gable. I’m currently working on an eLearning module intended to support an organizational culture change initiative. To be clear, the eLearning module isn’t viewed as the primary catalyst for the change; rather, it is one of many components supporting the larger initiative. The goal of the cultural shift is for employees to respond to certain types of situations in a particular way.

Culture 100
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This Is How I Draft an eLearning Lesson

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'By Shelley A. Gable. You’ve completed your analysis. And, you’ve designed a course, which consists of several lessons. So, you’re at the point where you’re about to start drafting lesson materials. How do you approach an individual lesson? For instance, do you start writing the lesson introduction and work your way through to the end? Do you start with certain types of content?

Lesson 143
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4 Ways to Jump Start an eLearning Lesson

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'By Shelley A. Gable. I’ve heard learners criticize eLearning lessons that have too much “extra” stuff at the beginning. Think about all the material that some lessons place before the actual content: title slide, copyright and/or confidentiality statements, navigation instructions, learning objectives, etc. It can potentially add up to a lot of extra clicks (that learners may or may not actually pay attention to), which gets the activity off to a somewhat sluggish start.

Lesson 152
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Making a Game Out of Software Simulations

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'By Shelley A. Gable. I recently worked on a lengthy course that included a lot of software training. The intent of the training was not only to introduce learners to the software, but also to build fluency with several key tasks. Of course, building fluency requires practice. So, one of the challenges with designing the training was figuring out how to provide the repetition needed to build fluency, without it feeling repeatedly boring for the learners.

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Remember Recency?

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'By Shelley A. Gable. If you haven’t encountered it lately, it’s possible you’ve forgotten about the recency theory of learning. Recency is the tendency to be more likely to remember information from the end of a sequence. Cognitive theorists believe that as new information enters the working memory, earlier information is pushed out. Since the information entering at the end doesn''t get pushed out as quickly, the brain has more time to process and remember the later stuff.

Cognitive 123
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Focus Time and Effort with the 80/20 Rule

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'By Jonathan Shoaf. The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, roughly states that 80% of the results are caused by 20% of the effort. This rule is applied commonly in business situations where for example, 80% of your income comes from 20% of your clients. This principle is meant to be a rule of thumb to guide decision making. As a software developer, I use this principle.

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Two Simple Rules for Evaluating E-Learning Project Changes

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'By Jonathan Shoaf. Let''s face it, most requests for e-learning are vague at best. The client wants an e-learning about a particular topic, they put some PowerPoint slides together with lots of words and bullets (and no graphics!) and say "turn this into e-learning." Although the client will not admit it, they are thinking they''ll figure out as the project goes along.

Project 138