Rapid eLearning

APRIL 1, 2012

We’ve seen lots of improvement in our industry with technology like rapid elearning tools. But learning is much more than multimedia technology. 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.

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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. This post on how to build an elearning template offers some good tips on where to look. I noted those areas that I could incorporate into an elearning course template. Copy and paste the sliver onto your course slide.

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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. E-Learning Courses Compared to Websites.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In this post we’ll review seven ways to create characters for your online training courses. A Simple Way to Create Custom Callouts for Your Courses. Create Custom Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios. October 7 & 8 : Dallas (ASTD). Two rapid elearning workshops. E-Learning Heroes Roadshow.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, May 04, 2007 New Rapid e-Learning Tool from Epic Another new rapid e-Learning tool, this from Epic (UK). Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:42 AM Labels: epic , rapid e-learning 4comments: Dan said.

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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. The guiding principle for rapid elearning design is to be intentional. Everything you do while developing your course should be planned and exist for a reason.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 22, 2012

I always joke about how many times I’ve had to take a course on how not to receive bribes, yet I’ve never been in a job where I was important enough to be bribed. The reason I had to take the course was because somewhere in the organization it was determined that everyone had to learn how not to get bribed whether or not it was relevant.

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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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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. I learn a lot about layouts and how the designer is using color. They’ll help you save time the next time you build a rapid elearning course.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

To help you relax and enjoy the last few days of summer, I’ve included a free tab-themed elearning template. 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. September 27: Boston, MA ( ADAPT ).

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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. This can be stifling and in many ways retard your growth as an elearning developer. How to Volunteer.

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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

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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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

In a recent post, I shared my recent webinar with the E-Learning Guild and some of the conversation we had around rapid elearning. Rapid E-Learning Developers Wear Many Hats. When I first started with elearning we’d have a team of people working on projects. That’s usually not the case today.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

The pace of change means that traditional custom e-learning development processes are simply too long and with the economy in the doldrums off-the-shelf content can be too expensive. Rapid E-learning provides an alternative to develop compliance training cost-effectively and quickly. Join Kineo and Mary K.

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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. Here are some things that relate to what we do in the world of elearning. Show them the difference between good and bad elearning. May 22 : London, UK.

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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. Here are some things that relate to what we do in the world of elearning. Show them the difference between good and bad elearning. May 22 : London, UK.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 8, 2007

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 Welcome to Tom Kuhlman Welcome to Tom Kuhlmann from Articulate, who adds The Rapid e-Learning Blog into the mix. Tom is the author of 5 Myths About Rapid e-Learning which made the rounds a while back. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Sounds good enough to eat.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. 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.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

From the perspective of the adult learner, I think its appropriate to think of skill level in these terms: a novice might have a different "learning style" from an expert. Clark & Mayer address this a bit in e-Learning and the Science of Instruction when talking about closed navigation vs. learner control. Take the Survey!

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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. (We

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Learning Visions

JUNE 8, 2007

I dont build courses. If youre an instructional designer within a corporate training group, it seems -- most likely -- that youll be asked to both design and build courses. Rapid e-Learning tools, like Articulate , change the amount of actual technical skill an ID would need within such a group. Easy breezy.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. With the rise of rapid eLearning tools and the ease with which virtually anyone can now create a course, whats changing for the instructional designer? SMEs using rapid eLearning tools)? Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

She raised the question about e-Learning content and how well companies keep track of content updates. Can you prove when and how your e-Learning content has changed? As an e-Learning vendor, I think its our responsibility to make sure that our clients have thought this through. This is a good point.

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Learning Visions

MAY 15, 2007

I think that this hits the point that for many people on the receiving end, elearning is synonymous with asynchronous courses. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! This post has been removed by the author.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Actually, Cammy, youve got part of it, but I believe that its not lots of examples, but instead multiple different representations of the concept (which of course then get exemplified). Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

They want to take the course and thats it." Rapid e-Learning tools are being adopted by companies, but they still want someone else to produce content for them. Custom Courses. Games/Immersive Learning Simulations. Rapid e-Learning. Slow cooked e-Learning. Slick graphics.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

The focus here the last few months has been less on creating custom courses for clients and more on building Templates and Learning Portals (think LMS-lite). Havent written a course script in a long time here. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Say, if youre purchasing a course library from SkillSoft or some other vendor: If a client has their own LMS, do they purchase the courses outright and host them on their own servers? Or do clients purchase courses that can be launched through their LMS, but that are hosted by the off-the-shelf vendor? Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Provide support for SME online, resources, rapid e-learning chunks. Podcasting, rapid e-learning, short videos, mobile delivery Content Maturity Model Started with Traditional Content -- modeled after instructor led. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! 72% of training content is used informally.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Self-direct learning experience == a standard course prepared and available on a web site. Fast Food Food prepared in small components -- small chunks cooked and rapid delivery. Learning objects: standard small chunks put together and done in a rapid e-learning experience. Person in next cubical?)

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 18, 2007

His concern, of course, is that now that the information is not stored centrally its harder to manage. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 21, 2012

When building rapid elearning with PowerPoint it can be a challenge to get away from linear courses. So building linear, info-centric courses tends to be an easier way to get the projects out the door. Tutorial: learn to build the overhead office interaction. Rapid E-Learning Interactions.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. A SME builds a course with the latest rapid eLearning tool. Is it the number of courses you have created? The quality of those courses? Yet here we are, designing eLearning. What are the criteria?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

And how many e-Learning courses have you created with on-screen text bullets timed to narrative audio? You know -- appeal to multiple learning styles; address the needs of both auditory and visual learners. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 25, 2007

Carolyn commented in my interview post, I try to do an informal survey of students when I go to campuses to deliver orientations to our online courses. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Take the Survey!

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