Rob Hubbard

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How to Build Agility into your Learning Design

Rob Hubbard

An idea that at first might seem too ‘out there’, can trigger another thought process that leads to some truly transformative functionality being designed into the product. Secondly, use collaborative tools like Google Drive, Basecamp and Mockflow to document, manage and design the product. Encourage collaborative, iterative working.

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Stop Wasting Time: Designing Effective and Efficient Learning Systems

Rob Hubbard

The production of video, graphics and audio? For example; enter data into a system with zero errors, sell a product more effectively or manage a project to completion on time and within budget. What’s the biggest cost in any elearning or training programme? The instructional design time? The subject matter expert’s time?

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6 ways to convince your organisation to embrace digital learning

Rob Hubbard

Despite being consistently able to show that those organisations who embrace learning technologies perform better, be it through increasing revenue, improving productivity or job performance, the overall situation remains relatively static in terms of budget committed to digital learning or the range of technology used.

Digital 40
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The Ingredients of Innovation

Rob Hubbard

Some of these I do nothing with, some I integrate into current projects or products, others hold my interest and I come back and refine them. Build as late as you possibly can and leave plenty of budget for changes. I always have some sort of digital device on me and I note down ideas as they occur to me.

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The Art of Simple Design

Rob Hubbard

The customer wants it – if a customer has a decent budget and you have a reasonable timescale, almost anything is possible. The trouble is that this will lead to a sub-standard, over-complicated product. So firstly, why is there a tendency to over complicate designs? So what can you do to address these three situations?

Design 73
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Time Machine: Tips for Harnessing Time to Ensure Success in your eLearning Projects

Rob Hubbard

I would argue that time is the single most important ingredient in any successful project – more important even than budget. This single action will hugely improve your personal productivity and give you time to focus on the important project tasks. Plan the project tasks well in advance.

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