The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Online image editors and other multimedia production tools provide access to a host of new and often less expensive applications. While online applications for webinars, presentations and mind maps provide new ways to learn and collaborate online. Related Articles: 10 Social Media Tools For Learning. Open Source Software.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

Provide options. Even if you provide a suggested order, allow learners to take lessons in a sequence that works for them. Provide resources, references, videos and podcasts to create an ideal environment for personal exploration. Provide opportunities for group discussion, collaboration and group problem solving.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 6, 2010

Provide for the effective implementation of instructional products and programs. Related Articles: 35 More Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer. Tags: DESIGN ISD RECENT ARTICLES instructional design. Apply business skills to managing instructional design. Design instructional management systems. Essential).

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

And how Universal Design is the path that provides the best access to digital products for the widest audience. Ideas-articles-freebies-resources. In this conversation with accessibility experts Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery, they explain how all users win when we design for accessibility first.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Then the announcer, as if reading my mind, provided the answer. Games provide immediate feedback unlike a test or a quiz which requires time for an instructor to grade and return. They provide a context for the learning that can be highly realistic for knowledge transfer. Know someone who’d like this article?

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They serve to energize people, providing intensity and direction. The final article in this series will present practical ways to design for the emotions. Related Article: Emotions and Learning: Part I. Share this article with a friend! Motivation. A moderate challenge is optimally motivating. Share your stories.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They use authentic sounds to put the listener in the location of the interview, stories to provide the context of the segment and then insightful questions. Related Article: Games and Simulations. Tags: DESIGN ISD RECENT ARTICLES. All great techniques to use for educational podcasts. It does not mean “shrunken slides.”

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2009

This book is an excellent introduction to online user interface design, providing the background, thought processes and uses for just about every type of user interface element you can imagine. Apply this knowledge to your eLearning courses to provide a richer user experience. Tags: BOOK REVIEWS RECENT ARTICLES. Sound familiar?

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 3, 2011

SMEs will often provide content resources and review design documents, scripts and media assets for accuracy. And at the end of this article is a SME Content Collection Form you can download. See the download link at the end of this article. Below are guidelines for each phase. Phase 1: The Prep Work.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 1, 2010

This is the third article in the series on emotions and learning. Ensure feedback provides solid information and is phrased in an encouraging way. Using collaborative tools and social media can help learners build relationships, cooperate on tasks, and provide support and feedback to each other. Make it easy to use.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Also, as a Regular member, you are not provided with exercise files that go along with each course. Although the exercise files are not required for using the tutorials, they do provide a way to continue learning and exploring after completing the course. Tags: RECENT ARTICLES REVIEWS SOFTWARE REVIEWS. Share this on Linkedin.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 11, 2011

One thing to remember when you’re designing a mobile app is that you can provide updates in the future, allowing for a phased approach. I learned a lot about mobile design while working on my first app and I plan to share more of this with you in future articles. My family convinced me that I could add more terms in an update.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 23, 2010

For example, text to speech software is certainly a viable approach for providing accessibility to visually impaired persons. Loquendo is a multilingual text to speech engine with high-quality voices that even provide emotional emphasis. Other Audio Articles: Bouncy, bubbly or British? TTS is a way to overcome these obstacles.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2009

In addition to providing instructions and wayfinding, microcopy can assure users that things are safe and secure. Tags: DESIGN RECENT ARTICLES USER INTERFACE. I thought I was supposed to click on the words, “click to expand.&# Actually, I was supposed to click on some links on the other side of the screen. Was I frustrated?

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The pre-built templates provide a way to quickly assemble an interaction or presentation segment and publish it to a Flash (.swf) The full Raptivity library of around a dozen products provides over 225 presentation and interactive templates for various audience groups. If you liked this article, please share it with the tools below.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2009

For this particular course, we’ll remove content that can’t be remembered and provide it as reference material. It opens new worlds, provides new skills, changes attitudes and helps people advance in their careers. Related Articles: 10 Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The topic is somewhat complex and the author doesn’t skimp on providing depth. Tags: BOOK REVIEWS RECENT ARTICLES. One thing about the book’s approach—if you’re looking for a quick and easy 1-2-3 experience, then this isn’t for you. That’s how I like it. Email this to a friend? Stumble upon something good?

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Thinking through what a particular audience group needs and how they will react as they proceed through a course provides a tangible focus for the design. In the end, you should have several personas that provide a tangible sense of your audience members. Articles related to connecting with an audience: Reality eLearning.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Then continue to provide success stories to the next group on the continuum, moving along until you reach the Late Adopters. Tags: RECENT ARTICLES eLEARNING 2.0 Thus, individuals differ greatly in their readiness to adopt new technologies. Ensure It Solves A Business Need. Share this on Linkedin Tweet This! Email this to a friend?

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. See Less is More for a related article.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. See Less is More for a related article.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Other people are providing the context and the need, even if they’re not in the room. Related Articles: Social Media And Learning. Coach: Are there advantages to informal collaborative learning as compared to informal individualized learning? Jay: Learning is social. Most learning is collaborative. 10 Ways To Learn In 2010.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 14, 2009

In a previous article , I noted that experts have different internal knowledge structures than novices. You can help this along by providing supplemental information in the form of a glossary, hypertext explanations, links to authority websites and downloads of background resources, such as research studies. Avoid Condescension.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 17, 2009

In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations. Provide a scenario that is modified to fulfill a particular objective and give learners two choices. These are often part of the analysis phase, prior to design.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you need for multiple voices for scenarios and other treatments, finding one person to cover several characters provides a huge time and cost savings. Related Articles: Audio Recording: Preparing Your Script. Look for character voices. Some narrators can portray several distinct voices. Check previous experience. Comment below.

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The eLearning Coach

JUNE 30, 2009

Measurable learning objectives are very specific and provide a way for designers to determine if audience members can demonstrate what they have learned. In that case, please forward this article to a friend. Part 2 focuses on making your learning objectives measurable. Thus, the clever tape measure graphic to your left.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 17, 2009

In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations. Provide a scenario that is modified to fulfill a particular objective and give learners two choices. These are often part of the analysis phase, prior to design.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning. This software provides a way to centralize and manage blogs within an institution by hosting them all on one domain. Edublogs Campus. MindMeister.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This strategy provides a slow initiation into a subject, building the learner’s confidence and knowledge base. The structure of sequential content provides hooks for learners to remember the steps of the procedure. Providing the big picture helps adult learners make sense of information. Simple to Complex. Sequential.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Enclosure is a compelling way to provide meaning. Tags: GRAPHICS MEDIA RECENT ARTICLES. You might draw a line around a set of buttons in the user interface or place a filled area of color in the background of a map or diagram. Here, we perceive the houses on the colored background as grouped and set apart. Grouping by Proximity.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

You can help this situation by providing a visual of a simple framework showing how the course’s information fits together. Most important, provide novice learners with content that’s logically organized for how they will use the information. Related Articles: The Novice Brain. Relate Content to Something Known.

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