Experiencing eLearning

MAY 30, 2023

As examples of the free resources available, I have published two free checklist ebooks through the Learning Guild. ATD is more focused more broadly on training and development, but they have plenty of valuable information for instructional designers. For example, I live blogged one of Ray Jimenez’s webinars back in 2010.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Specifically, you can identify the focus for your branching scenario and start gathering information. Plan to spend 2-5 hours each week completing activities and reviewing resources, plus 1 hour for the live session. If you have other questions, please contact me for more information. What is the time commitment? More questions?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

Examples of bad, okay, and good alt text. 360 images can be accessible in Articulate Storyline, according to the documentation (but I’d want to test this with a screen reader to make sure everything was clear in the flow of the activity). Need to securely send a password or other sensitive information? GuidedTrack – Home.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 21, 2020

Instead of being so boring that employees just want to click through as quickly as possible, this strategy gives learners a reason to actively seek out and understand policies. The trick is that you have to give them a reason to need the information. In the example below, Simon asks his manager, Cindy, for time off after a surgery.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If you’re not active in L&D Twitter, you might have missed the big debate recently about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals. These are my reflections on some of the ways research informs my work on a nearly daily basis. Organizing content.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

People naturally pay more attention to information they can use right away than information they “might need someday.” For example, the reward for exercising is generally long term. If a 20 minute walk drops your blood sugar from 150 to 120, it’s easy to see the value in that activity.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2020

So how often should information be boostered? An integrative booster again prompts the learner to retrieve the information, but this question specifically asks them to provide concrete examples of how they have made use of this information in their job. We recommend that you send boosters out in three phases.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I’m active in the instructional design subreddit (/r/instructionaldesign). Note that my limited understanding of the tasks means my examples may not be 100% accurate.) Practice Activities: How can you have people practice those tasks, maybe in multiple ways? sosaudio at [link]. Backwards Design. The Design Process.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2016

Instead of being so boring that employees just want to click through a course as quickly as possible, this strategy gives learners a reason to actively seek out policy information and better understand it. The trick is that you have to give them a reason to need the information.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

People naturally pay more attention to information they can use right away than information they “might need someday.” For example, the reward for exercising is generally long term. If a 20 minute walk drops your blood sugar from 150 to 120, it’s easy to see the value in that activity.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Let’s take the example of employee onboarding training. You could set up a story about an adventure on a remote island, where you explore different areas of the island to find information about your company. If you can create a story that provides parallels in practice activities, it’s still cognitively relevant.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Our brains are active for language processing but nothing else. Ask SMEs for real examples. Example classic story: are you laying bricks or building a cathedral? Give sensory information. Activate prior knowledge. We need to make the material come alive by adding context through teachable stories. Stay positive.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 15, 2018

For example, Bruce Graham started a lively conversation in the Articulate Heroes community by describing someone he met at a conference. A doctor can’t ask a patient to wait while she pulls up the example audio of what a heart murmur sounds like for comparison. ” Finding Information Isn’t Learning. Knowledge !=

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts. You’ll learn what questions to ask SMEs and other sources to get stories and examples to incorporate in your branching scenario. How Freelance Clients Find Me.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 15, 2018

For example, Bruce Graham started a lively conversation in the Articulate Heroes community by describing someone he met at a conference. A doctor can’t ask a patient to wait while she pulls up the example audio of what a heart murmur sounds like for comparison. ” Finding Information Isn’t Learning. Knowledge !=

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Example of a branching scenario activity with a coach and a meter showing progress on every screen, built in ZebraZapps. Whereas correcting errors is a feature of some types of FI messages, most types of FI messages do not contain such information and therefore should not improve learning—a claim consistent with CAI research.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2011

One technique I experimented with during this training was a scavenger hunt, which worked really well for getting everyone actively learning. I logged in as each of the demo students and took the quiz to create sample report data. This technique worked effectively because I was teaching a skill focused on finding information.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

I don’t find developing software simulations to be particularly rewarding, for example, because there often isn’t a ton of creativity. For example, one course I wrote last year includes branching video scenarios, where learners watch a video and then make decisions as a “choose your own adventure.” Learning Technology.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 1, 2015

I will politely, but actively, provide feedback to those who transmit misinformation. However, the information above, though it may appear to have scientific support, has been exhaustively researched and found to have no basis in science. The misleading information was first reported in 1914, with no research backing.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 1, 2010

Examples of adaptations from F2F classroom: Show of hands if you’ve ever = status/emoticons. Share example = Microphone. Placeholder slides for polls, activities, etc. Balance Online Activities. Use information to connect learner & content. Brainstorm = chat pod. Demonstrate = Application share/web tour.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2020

Example stories. Rance follows his own advice by starting every chapter with an example story. You learn alongside Dayna through her conversations with her mentor and her examples at each step along the way. The examples show that process. Check out the website for the book for additional information. Buy the book.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2009

Library Science course on Retrieving Information. Students were very active–they are all on the wiki just about every day. Another example: Introduction to Information Science. Presenters: Barbara Frey, University of Pittsburgh. Lorna Kearns, University of Pittsburgh. Carol Johnston, University of Pittsburgh.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While I’m going to share some of those actual numbers as examples, I suspect that my times may not be accurate for people with less experience. Example 1: Last year, I built a branching project that was quick, at least for the learners. Example 2: On the other hand, branching scenarios can sometimes be very small.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 23, 2023

Anuradha Gopu gave a good example in chat: in call centers, it matters how long customers are put on hold. One great example is the Lifesaver training on what to do if someone has a sudden cardiac arrest. Interleaving , spaced repetition , and retrieval practice are all evidence-informed techniques for improving practice activities.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

Social media is actually a really poo r method for talking about things I shouldn’t be discussing because through search and the very nature of social networks, it makes it extremely unlikely that I can keep this activity a secret for very long. Registration required.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 10, 2008

Best practices for working with online learning communities, including how to work with lurkers who may still be learning even if they aren’t actively participating. lead by example. route information in all directions. Working with online learning communities. online learning communities are grown, not built.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

But where it differs is, crucially: the transfer of information does not reduce to this physical substrate. For example (and there are many we could choose from), consider Randall O’Reilly on how the brain represents conceptual structures, as described in Modeling Integration and Dissociation in Brain and Cognitive Development. .

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, Tracy Parish did a great job talking about how elearning isn’t supposed to be fun, it’s supposed to be torture. For example, NASA’s training reinforces the culture of people helping each other. The images are deliberately disjointed and unusual, with no obvious connection to the topic or each other.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The conversion process is more about transforming the content and activities to provide a better experience and improve skills. Gather information. Example 1: If the classroom version was 2 hours, assume the online version will be about 1 hour. The Performance Analysis Quadrant is one way to determine what kind of problem it is.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, I’ve created and seen several good examples of storytelling and scenario-based learning in higher ed. Authentic assessment example. For example, in this social psychology course, students were placed in the role of Director of Operations. The example above was from a course on how to teach online.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I took over 20 pages of notes in the first week, so I have a lot of information to process still. The example she used was an employee directory for onboarding, but I could see this as useful for looking up safety procedures, product features, or checklists of processes. However, there’s no pricing information available.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 19, 2021

Just like a good teacher or trainer, the mentor character can ask questions of the learning character to draw out information. Add dialogue with back and forth to show your learner is actively listening to the mentor. Here’s an example from a conversation between two doctors discussing the treatment of addiction.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 15, 2022

Additional information. I created this page to support my presentation for TLDC on writing voice over scripts , so this page also includes a handout with practice activities from my session. et cetera” or “and so on”) Bullet point lists Serial comma used for all lists Formatting Readable spacing, font, and font size File names.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Lauren needed to do an informational interview for her masters program, and I needed some new profile pictures. From Tom’s summary: The researchers were interested in which of some of Gagné’s nine events of instruction were most powerful in promoting learning: objectives, information, examples, practice with feedback, or review.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 18, 2021

Avoid teaching in alt text; include the information in the main text, then refer back to it in the alt text. See examples of the difference between OK and good alt text in Mozilla’s alt text explanation. We also brainstormed together some possible activities for a new game to get a taste of the game design process.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is a worked example of a single branching scenario where I show my actual prompts and results, with notes about what worked and what didn’t work. ” This prompt didn’t quite work the way I wanted because I didn’t give it enough information.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I’ve seen a number of good examples of storytelling and scenarios in university courses. For example, in this social psychology course, students were placed in the role of Director of Operations. One example was a course on how to teach online where students practiced handling student objections. Group Activities.

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