Who doesn't want to create engaging elearning? Sometimes, the mix of these factors means that you end up having to design simple and quick, linear courses - where every learner moves along only one predictable path in the course. So if you have an engaging story, a comic approach automatically draws your learners to click the Next button. But when managing projects, you're often balancing time, cost, money, scope and team. That said, I'm a big believer in doing more with less and today I want to share with you three ways to make the most of when you have to create courses

As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. Indeed, Cheskin’s Davis Masten and Tim Plowman characterized digital ethnography as the next wave in understanding the consumer experience in a Design Management Journal article as early as 2003. The following video by YouTube user mokmcdaniel shows what an online student’s experience would look like if his instructor’s lack of instruction Best of eLearning Learning I

I’d say that every l&d professional should have at least a basic level of competence in the design and development of digital learning content, at least those forms of content most relevant to the learning domain for which they are responsible. It is much, much harder to create a set of fully self-contained instructional materials than it is to develop the components – the explanations, the examples, the demonstrations, the practice exercises, the assessments. I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety.