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8 Steps To Shorten Training Time By Up To 60%

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Keep your employees' attention during training? Shorten training time? Lower training costs? Improve performance outcomes? SAM, an iterative instructional design model, starts with performance so your organization can end with performance. Article originally published on eLearning Industry.

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Instructional Design 3.0: Designing the Learner’s Journey - Part 5 - The Post Instruction Phase

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We do it for a variety of reasons, including very pragmatic ones such as the fact that developing good training requires professional attention to the myriad components of a training program. In this series of blogs, I’m emphasizing factors that can have a profound effect on learning but yet are often left unattended. We all do this.

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508(c) Compliance Guide for Instructional Designers: Part 1

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In recent years, we’ve given more attention to the topic of accessibility, and perhaps more importantly, how to adhere to and maintain compliance with Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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The Foundation of the Metaverse: Centralization Versus Decentralization

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When you ask a regular person who pays attention to the news, “What is the metaverse?”, you can expect to hear something like, “It’s the project Facebook… I mean… Meta is now working on.”.

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Three Solid Instructional Design Principles in The Big Short

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It’s nominated for several awards in the upcoming Oscars, and has garnered significant attention for its success in communicating tricky financial concepts to a general audience. The Big Short is a recently released dark comedy that explores the 2008 financial crisis. Steve Carell, who co-starred in the film, offered this assessment :

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Pokémon Go: 3 Lessons for Instructional Designers

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A Florida news anchor walked right into the live weather forecast, too busy catching imaginary animals to pay attention. Yes, he confessed this to the police, alleviating my friend from any responsibility.