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eLearning Book Review: The Accidental Instructional Designer

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Instructional designers and eLearning managers can learn something from Cammy Bean’s book. Here’s a question for the eLearning managers out there: How many members of your instructional design team got involved in the field by accident?

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5 Ways Managers Can Encourage Staff To Do Professional Development Online

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Of course, if the impetus for this eLearning trend is based on employer demand for cutting-edge skills, managers in content development and instructional design departments must play a role in facilitating the pursuit of good online learning by staff members. Make professional development a priority.

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Explore eLearning at the Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning

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If you’ve been looking for a better way to unify your staff and articulate organizational goals in a memorable form, stop by to see our presentation and take a crack at developing a quality manifesto of your own. The post Explore eLearning at the Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning appeared first on Web Courseworks.

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5 keys for Section 508 Compliance and Web Accessibility

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For some instructional designers the accessibility standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act can become a source of confusion, frustration, and anxiety during eLearning course design. For complex interactivities the instructional designers drafted longer descriptions that captured the meaning of the graphics.

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Web-Based Authoring Tools for Scalable eLearning Development: The Time Has Come

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It is no small task to unite a diverse group of instructional designers, subject matter experts (SMEs), graphic artists, reviewers, project managers, legal staff, and other key stakeholders in an intuitive and streamlined online environment. Colin Skinner, Instructional Designer. Dawn Ramin, Instructional Designer.

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4 Phrases to Describe DevLearn 2016

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Although Adobe and Articulate’s desktop products have the largest market share among desktop authoring systems for creating on demand SCORM training courses, the web based authoring systems (companies like GOMO and DominKnow) are gaining traction. Many of these exhibitors traveled from locations outside the USA.

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Proactive, Not Reactive: Strategic with Technology

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Over 63 percent of organizations with a strategy use professional instructional designers, compared to 33.3 It shows the most popular LMS for many countries around the world: Moodle, Blackboard, Articulate, and others. In comparison, only 45 percent of associations without a strategy reported increased revenues.