Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. December 11th, 2007. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

by Jennie Ruby Track Changes in Microsoft Word is an indispensible tool for editing, but it is not the best tool for the job in every editorial situation. Even if a reviewer of the edited document wanted Power Point to be printed with a space, you would not allow it, because PowerPoint is the proper name of the software.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during 2007. Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development ) I found myself no longer recommending the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. If you are a glutton for more of this, take a look at: Does eLearning 2.0

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 15, 2010

When WordPerfect came out with their "redlining" feature, I jumped on it, but stick-in-the-mud reviewers and authors balked, claiming the marked up text was hard to read. Word 2007 and 2010 solve that with an elegant green double-strikethrough and double-underline format with links between the moved from and moved to locations.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 6, 2010

" Editors and publications people take my classes, but then express despair at the thought of getting their colleagues to cooperate in doing their reviews with the software: "I can see a fight coming." I have also had success including a brief how-to about the Comments tool. " "My boss hates tracked changes."

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In Word 2007 or 2010, the Track Changes shortcut appears at first to be absent, but if you right-click the status bar, you get a menu in which you can choose to add the Track Changes shortcut. Once that tool is on your status bar, you can turn Track Changes on and off without a trip to the Review tab. .

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

AUGUST 17, 2012

And in 2006 I was speaking at another eLearning Guild event, between sessions, when I took the call that finalized my leaving Intel. But it wasn't until 2007 that I was brought on the Guild staff to work in the newly formed Research department and shortly there after asked if I would be interested in working with Heidi on programming events.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 18, 2010

Your readers have seen other publications that use capitalization for the names of on-screen tools and buttons, and the tools themselves display names that are usually capitalized. For software training documents, follow the on-screen displayed names of things. But not so fast: style decisions are not made in a vacuum.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 8, 2010

Both Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat have a "Send for Review" tool. Here is an overview of the two programs' tools for reviewing documents. The Microsoft Word Send for Review tool requires Outlook as your email program. The Comments tool allows for more extensive discussion of the document.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 20, 2010

You can restructure or recast a sentence to put information in the order the reader needs it: Original: Click the Chart tool from the Illustrations group on the Insert tab. Your reader cannot see the Chart tool until the Insert tab is selected. Recast: From the Insert tab, Illustrations group, click the Chart tool.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 28, 2007

and eLearning 1.0 eLearning Trend #2 - Virtual Environments - see Second Life and Learning eLearning Trend #3 - Open Source and Free Tools eLearning Trend #4 - Do-It-Yourself Learning - see Disruptive Changes in Learning , Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 and eLearning 1.0

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 31, 2011

  Now type the word Maryland : the software will automatically abbreviate the state name.   Italics can cause kerning (spacing) problems that are visually distracting and that must be corrected manually in your design software. But should I use italic for the period at the end? Which do you do? Please tell us about it. 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Two hyphens in a row are used to represent the em dash in situations (such as typing on a typewriter--and when using the software in which this newsletter is created) where the technology does not allow for the em dash. " Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But these symbols have a huge limitation: Many designers, layout artists, and eLearning producers don't know them. That fact leaves us at square one unless we do learn the marks, educate our colleagues about them, use some online tools, or do all three. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 1, 2010

Luckily there are some great free tools to help you do this.   Say you want to find and follow eLearning developers. Doing a search for eLearning will turn up results for everyone who mentioned eLearning in a tweet. Twitter's basic search feature often won't prove all that helpful.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 7, 2010

I received stories about one trainer who had a roomful of people singing out loud, and another who cracked up a group with a fun "test" question that let learner's admit that the software they were learning could be a pain. Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Rapid elearning design is made up of three core functions: rapid authoring, rapid assets, and rapid instructional design. And this is a big challenge for many elearning developers. Having the authoring tools is one thing. All of the animations should remain intact if you’re using PowerPoint 2007+.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

On May 21, LearnTrends will be hosting an eLearning Tour Event. In 2007, he voted as one of TrainingIndustry.com's 2007 Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals. He is the author of "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" and is working on a book about 3D Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2015

The first edition of the free e-book was released in 2007, and as you can imagine a lot has changed in our industry. In 2007, most of the options for creating interactive elearning required Flash. I imagine that many of you seasoned elearning developers cut your teeth in a PowerPoint-based product.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, September 13, 2007 There is an eLearningPulse! But now its official: there is an eLearning Pulse. eLearningPulse is "Your daily source for all things eLearning ". Thanks to Ben Edwards of Redbird Software and B.J.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 16, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, August 16, 2007 Keeping Your Fingers on the eLearningPulse Thanks to Google Alerts, I stumbled across another everything-eLearning feed aggregator: eLearningPulse. Schone of eLearning Weekly fame. Check it out.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2006

What are the biggest challenges for you/us as head into 2007? What are your predictions for 2007? It is the year that I recognized that there is a revolution going on in eLearning similar to 1996 when I saw that web-delivery of tools, content, etc. If you are a glutton for more of this, take a look at: Does eLearning 2.0

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Today, I’d like to share a little of what I learned from the PowerPoint community and provide some great resources and tools that will help you do a better job building your elearning courses. His session inspired a few ideas that could work well for rapid elearning courses although some of the animations may be a bit too much.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

December 17th, 2007. They’re not really designed for elearning courses. This means that you’ll have to create your own templates that work better with the rapid elearning software. Use graphics tools to help you build your templates. Many of you already use tools like Photoshop to create your graphics.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 The Rise of Rapid e-Learning Mike Alcock, MD of Atlantic Link Ltd has written an article over at Trainingzone.co.uk: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning. Is it really the SMEs using the tools?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 10, 2009

5 Ways to Jump Start Your Next E-learning Project (July 2, 2007). If you’re like me you find that there are some things you seem to do over and over again in your elearning courses. I think a missed opportunity for many rapid elearning developers is not pre-building content. 5 Myths About Rapid E-Learning.

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Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

I see a listing of products and tools. No eLearning development houses. Clearly says something about the state of the fragmented eLearning market -- mostly small shops providing services or companies doing it in-house using all of the aforementioned tools. No service companies. What does this mean? How true Cammy.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

Friday, May 04, 2007 Rapid e-Learning, Templates, & SMEs Theres been a lot of good talk lately about rapid e-learning tools and templates and the roles of SMEs vs. instructional designers. Our tools still require the user to work in the Flash environment, but you really dont need to know Flash. I think about this topic a lot.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. A SME builds a course with the latest rapid eLearning tool. I moved on to eLearning development and can say - I aint no techie.but most techies I know (those designing webpages, using Flash) dont really understand education.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Since "I'm an instructional designer" is almost always met with blank stares, I just fall back on elaborating with "eLearning developer." This post has been removed by the author. Posted by Cammy Bean at 2:13 PM Labels: instructional design , learning desig , learning designers 30comments: ellen said.

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s about having a 360° understanding of the principles, ideas, and practicalities for successful eLearning. Stop by the eLearning Rockstar stage—conveniently located near the eLearning Brothers booth—to learn new techniques, see new tools, and become an eLearning Rockstar. WEDNESDAY SESSIONS.

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IT Training Department Blog

JULY 13, 2023

I found out what it was around 2007 or so when a teacher I had in college mentioned that his degree was in instructional design. Common Tools and Techniques Used in Instructional Design Beyond the strategies, skills, and such there are a lot of actual tools that instructional designers can use to make training better.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

The road ahead : I am presently developing detailed role descriptions, community guidelines, role assessment tools, and the identification of appropriate learning products and offerings. Should they be coupled with your LMS or other learning-specific tools? tools into their practices. Or should they be separated?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 8, 2009

However, when she needs to train her staff of about 200, she has no access to the elearning group’s resources. Without rapid elearning tools, she’d be hard pressed to offer her team the benefits of online learning. However, with rapid elearning tools she’s gone from no elearning to dozens of quick hit elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. They commission the elearning courses, pay the bills, and are the ultimate authority for their elearning projects. On the other hand, a demanding customer can negatively impact the elearning course by making demands that don’t fit sound instructional design. January 22nd, 2008.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010 Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. As authors of Disrupting Class, a useful manifesto on how innovation will change “the way the world learns&#.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

Many instructional designers ( Christy Tucker , Wendy Wickham ) build their own courses using tools like Captivate. My experience is mainly in development of self-paced eLearning for the corporate market.) Do you think instructional designers should be able to use the tools? Whats your view?

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