Rapid eLearning

JUNE 12, 2012

Typically elearning courses start from existing content. And often that content dictates how the course is structured and how it looks. Everything you do while developing your course should be planned and exist for a reason. You don’t want existing content to dictate the design of your course. Here’s a typical scenario.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 10, 2012

A common frustration for many rapid elearning developers is wanting to build elearning courses that look good but not having the graphic design expertise or resources to make it happen. In a previous post we reviewed how to design an elearning course on a budget. In that post, we explored: Where to locate existing course assets.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 5, 2012

One of the most common complaints I hear from elearning developers is that they have to build the same types of courses over and over again. And often they’re given little latitude in how the courses are designed. A great way to grow your skills and add to your portfolio is by volunteering to build courses. How to Volunteer.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2012

I get a lot of questions about how to move past the PowerPoint look when building rapid elearning courses. Start with a blank screen and then based on the context of the course, build the look and feel that’s appropriate for the content. August 15 & 16: Houston, TX ( ASTD Houston ). August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ).

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2012

When building courses, many of you are in the role of instructional designer AND graphic designer. I noted those areas that I could incorporate into an elearning course template. In the following image, you can see my mocked up screen and one way I could use it for an elearning course. August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ).

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 1, 2012

We hypothesized that most people wear clothes when participating in an elearning course. Based on our findings, 87% of elearners wear clothes while taking their courses. An E-Learning Heroes Roadshow workshop where we’ll look at ways to build elearning courses and learn some great PowerPoint tips. Rapid elearning workshop.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It’s a good one for business policy and compliance courses. That means you can easily change the template to match the colors required for your course and organization’s branding. If you’re interested in having a workshop in your area, have your local ISPI or ASTD chapter contact me. September 27: Boston, MA ( ADAPT ).

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I also presented at a wide variety of events, from regular venues like ASTD ‘s TechKnowledge and ICE, and the eLearning Guild ‘s Learning Solutions, mLearnCon, Performance Support Symposium, and DevLearn. If you’re reading this, you’re more likely part of the solution than the problem, of course ;).

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I don’t have a large budget or a lot of time, but I’d like to use more video in my courses. Once you have a video, it’s easy enough to add the video to your elearning courses and include interactive elements to create engaging and interactive video courses. This year we went to Toronto, Denver, Minneapolis, and Boston.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 29, 2012

Often this forces us to use templates that don’t fit the context of the course content. And then many organizations force draconian template rules on all elearning courses, regardless of their purpose. Of course this was disastrous when it came to some of our elearning courses. Each one is a bit different.

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Association eLearning

JULY 1, 2013

If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. Often, we will be approached by organizations whose learners are falling asleep during their courses, or they are not registering for the course at all. Diet-breaker: Boston Kreme donuts. Why content is king.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 17, 2012

One of the topics we cover in the elearning workshops is how to quickly create templates to help move the elearning courses out of that PowerPoint look. They’ll help you save time the next time you build a rapid elearning course. There are a lot more PowerPoint tips and tricks that will help you build better elearning courses.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

I want to be able to ask people a series of questions and correlate their answers with topic areas to indicate what courses they should take. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Our company specializes in Custom Courses, Flash Templates, and Learning Portals. If you, or someone you know, is an experienced instructional designer looking for work in the greater Boston area, please let me know! ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Your future colleague is going to be lucky.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It would be cool if every course we build was highly interactive with decision-making branches. But the reality is that not all elearning courses need to be that way. Despite the complaints we hear about linear, click-and-read courses, there are plenty of times when linear is the best solution.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

When we talk about the “industry”, we (and by “we”, I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. Is it the associations? -- the eLearning Guild and ASTD. Since I had the opportunity for a nice schmooze fest after the eLearning Guild ID Symposium in Boston.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 20, 2009

e-Learning Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and When So youve heard about PowerPoint, Articulate, Captivate and Flash. In this crash course, well introduce you to a wide catalog of e-learning tools. In this crash course, well introduce you to a wide catalog of e-learning tools. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:32 AM Labels: e-learning , kineo 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

former EVP Human Resources of First Group America on August 27 th for a case study on the development of a 15-minute course on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. All who attend will receive a FREE copy of the course. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Schottmiller J.D, Take the Survey!

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 13, 2012

It reminded me a lot of what we have to do when building elearning courses and it’s in line with many questions I get about elearning design during my workshops. They’ve taken enough bad courses to recognize the difference. April 10 : Jacksonville, FL ( NEFL ASTD ). April 17 : Virginia ( SEVA ASTD ). May 22 : London, UK.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Our company specializes in Custom Courses, Flash Templates, and Learning Portals. If you, or someone you know, is a.NET developer looking for work in the greater Boston area, please let me know! ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Youd get to work with me -- how exciting is that?) Take the Survey!

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

Someone did the instructional design, someone else worked on graphics, and then we had a programmer who built the courses in Authorware or some other application. While today’s software has made the job easier, but it’s also made it more challenging for the person who has to develop and deliver elearning courses. Visual design.

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Learning Visions

JULY 7, 2009

Although I’ve been r eading Tom Kuhlman’s Rapid E-Learning Blog now for a couple of years, I’ve never actually designed (or for that matter, built) an Articulate course. That is, if a client uses Articulate in-house, they may ask us to build a few courses for them in Articulate. I’m such a n00b.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2009

A nice follow-on to the webinar, we talked a bit more about learning campaigns, emerging technologies and, of course, the upcoming DevLearn 09. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

When we talk about the “industry&# , we (and by “we&# , I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. Is it the associations? -- the eLearning Guild and ASTD. Of course it's not the perfect analogy. The Industry. Rangimarie!

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 13, 2012

It reminded me a lot of what we have to do when building elearning courses and it’s in line with many questions I get about elearning design during my workshops. They’ve taken enough bad courses to recognize the difference. April 10 : Jacksonville, FL ( NEFL ASTD ). April 17 : Virginia ( SEVA ASTD ). May 22 : London, UK.

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Association eLearning

MAY 26, 2011

Feature-sets unique to the platform include: • An integrated course catalog with built-in marketing components. • A robust recommendation engine which automatically recommends courses of interest to learners based on their current course assignments. AAMSE Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, July 20-22, 2011.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Of course good is very subjective. Not usually, of course, but I tried. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Getting to Good Enough "Dont let good enough get in the way of perfect."

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Learning Visions

APRIL 11, 2008

I put myself as academic, since the courses I develop are graduate courses. I figured youre really more interested in what type of courses I design rather than where the money comes from. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. 1:21 PM Dave Ferguson said. 1:21 PM Dave Ferguson said. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

And schmoozing, of course!) 8:58 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

So then its really easy to think that the best way to make a course more engaging is to make it fun. Of course, sometimes they coincide.) (Now Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

Well, first of all I apologize for being self-serving, but I cant not promote my own company, Phasient Learning Technologies, which does provide custom course development and eLearning consulting services as well as tools. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Free Articulate & Moodle Seminars in Boston and Ch.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In my early days, I wrote a lot of software training courses. 8:34 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? Something like that.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I had planned to write on topics like how not to turn a course into a content dump, about rapid authoring tools, and how performance outcome is related to course design, and other such matters of import to an instructional designer. I would want to visit them someday with people I love.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Beginning Instructional Designers Toolkit I want to incorporate a reading list for the next level of the 30-minute masters (taking a crash course in Instructional Design). Blooms Taxonmy, of course. And of course a nice link to that: [link] 7:32 AM Chris @ eQuixotic said. 10:49 AM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! I know I do.

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