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 16, 2014

On past projects, many of my customers would ask for interactive elearning courses. When I asked them how they defined interactive elearning courses they’d usually list things like fancy mouseovers, drag-and-drop interactions, and a host of other ways to interact with the screen. However, it’s a key part of interactive elearning.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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 post has a couple of simple examples and quick tutorial to show it’s done. This year we went to Toronto, Denver, Minneapolis, and Boston.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Sketching doesn’t need to be perfect and the organic nature of it provides a novel contrast to what we usually see in our elearning courses. Challenge Activity: Using Interactive Sliders in E-Learning (Challenge #52). E-Learning Jobs: Training, elearning, and instructional design jobs. Weekly Updates.

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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. Free tutorials.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2016

Rapid E-Learning Makes Interactive Video Easy. Here’s one of my favorite examples of how things changed with the advent of rapid elearning. Interactive Video Quiz : includes a how-to tutorial and free download to create your own. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Learn more & register.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2016

So in today’s post we’ll look at what they did and learn to apply it to your own templates. I created a PowerPoint tutorial that goes through both tips in more detail. Again, here’s a PowerPoint tutorial that walks through the steps in more detail. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 6, 2017

A few ideas: how-to tutorials are popular, thoughts on what others have written, or summaries of industry books, articles, and news. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. FocusOn Learning conference.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 29, 2016

And now for naming variables for e-learning… How to Name Variables for E-Learning. I’ve been working on a series that covers the basics of using variables in elearning. And be sure to check out these examples and tutorials. How do you name variables for elearning? April 26 (Houston, TX).

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2016

It seems like it was on every tutorial video and YouTube video a few years back. Great for quick tutorials. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Learn more & register. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2016

Having free clip art is a big deal for those of us on fixed budgets and with limited access to stock images and clip art to use in our elearning courses, presentations, and training programs. Based on their tutorial video , Pickit is supposed to add an icon to your toolbar. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2017

Here are a few: drag and drop interactions, decision-making scenarios, software tutorials, and custom navigation. Ultimately, e-learning is a solution. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2017

Share the source file, a how-to tutorial, or maybe a free template. Find sources of inspiration and then apply what you learn to your own projects. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Share what you build.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 26, 2016

In fact, I ran into this issue in a previous post on getting an elearning job. Finding the Right Illustrations in PowerPoint & E-Learning. For example, in the images above, the backgrounds would be perfect for elearning scenarios. Click here to view the video tutorial. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Trivantis

MAY 2, 2012

e-Learning Authoring Software Made Easy. Web-based Collaborative e-Learning Authoring. Affordable Rapid e-Learning. Learning & Talent Management Systems. Fast, Flexible & Powerful Learning Management. Enterprise Learning Management System. Mobile Learning. Lectora Online.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2016

This is especially important for those of us in the elearning industry. Often that’s not true for elearning. I think one of the best ways to learn to build better courses is by reviewing and deconstructing what others do. What I like about the modules is that I often learn something new.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 21, 2016

I get a lot of questions about buying elearning software. Essentially you use your PowerPoint skills to build your content and whatever you create in PowerPoint is converted to an elearning course. The videos can be simple lectures, but often are software tutorials or those new “explainer” style videos. Video-based authoring.

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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. The good thing is that PowerPoint isn’t limited to linear elearning. Building interactive elearning is just a matter of learning a few techniques. Tutorial: learn to build the overhead office interaction.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In a recent post we looked at ways to build interactive elearning even if using PowerPoint to build the courses. This lets us look at some essential production tips when using PowerPoint to build interactive elearning. PowerPoint Tutorials. Click here to view the tutorials. Click here to view the tutorials.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 19, 2012

And they work well for elearning courses. It’s that type of contrast that can hook your learners who might be bored with the standard-looking corporate elearning. A while back I shared how to be inspired by others and included links to two comic-style elearning courses. Tutorial : How to work with comic-panel#.ppt

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 24, 2012

I’ve been on the road a lot lately doing elearning workshops and Articulate jam sessions. Today, we’ll look at how to manage the images used in elearning courses. To help alleviate that, I start each elearning course with a generic folder. You can get more detail in this blog post on organizing your elearning project files.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Start by thinking through the various screens common to elearning courses and then build the core structure. Build an elearning starter course template. Here’s a post where I detailed the elearning starter kit. E-Learning Jobs: Training, elearning, and instructional design jobs. E-Learning Heroes Roadshow.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 10, 2012

I get a lot of requests for software demos and quick tutorials. Another challenge is that most screencasts are recorded at a higher resolution than used in the elearning courses. Here’s an example of what I do: Let’s suppose I am recording some PowerPoint tutorials. Here’s a tutorial that explains how to add the logo.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 31, 2012

Screenshots and elearning go hand-in-hand. I also use screenshots when I run across a template or idea that I may want to use in a future elearning course. Below is a quick description and then I added a tutorial that shows how they work. You can learn more about PowerPoint’s screenshot feature here. Honolulu, HI.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 5, 2016

That’s what I ran into with this recent demo I built for the blog post on simplifying variables for elearning. E-Learning Tutorial Step-By-Step. Learn more by following the steps of the elearning tutorial below and then watch the video for more detail. E-Learning Tutorial Video.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 5, 2017

Here’s a PowerPoint tutorial with more detail. The tutorial below reviews what I’m sharing with more detail so that you can see how to choose and manipulate stock images for your courses and presentations. Click here to view the tutorial video. To learn more, watch the tutorial video. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 16, 2017

I created a few different examples so you can hear the quality of the voices and how they sound in the context of an e-learning demo. Balabolka Text-to-Speech Tutorials. Here’s a quick video tutorial where I walk through the basics of text-to-speech conversion: Insert text and output audio. Boston: July 18 & 19.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 1, 2012

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to building interactive elearning. The worst thing is having to take an elearning course that is completely meaningless. And many of us experience this type of irrelevant elearning. A large part of learning is about forming a hypothesis and then testing it out. What a waste of time!

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2012

If you’re building elearning courses, then you should expect to have a graphics editing program as part of your tool chest. There’s even a good discussion about graphics applications in the elearning community. Click here to view a tutorial. Learn to create shapes and then embellish them with colors, shadows, and dimension.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 17, 2016

The other day someone asked what I thought the three top pain points were for online training or elearning. Here are some of the issues I find most challenging with elearning. E-Learning Pain Point #1: Courses are Boring. Many of the people I meet are the only elearning person on staff. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 3, 2012

I was helping someone the other day clean up a PowerPoint-based elearning course. However you design your elearning courses, it’s important that your intentional about what goes on the screen and how those objects are used. Here’s a tutorial that walks through the process of creating a design slide. This is a simple technique.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 11, 2017

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Join us for one or two days of e-learning goodness. They're great activities to help you learn more about the tools. Boston: July 18 & 19.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. I see this as the democratization of elearning. Tutorial : How to build drag & drop interactions.

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