#DevLearn Email courses
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 26, 2018
This session was about a simple but rather cool idea sending out a spaced course via email. I think it is a cool idea if you do not have an LMS or do not want to use it.
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Sell your eLearning course? Here are three options
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Create your eLearning courses and sell them. Some of the services offer an authoring facility, for other you need to create your course in eLearning software like Easygenerator. Notice that some of them will require you to upload your courses in a specific format (Scorm or AICC). Upload your course and share or sell it.
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e-Learning course review: This will save you so much time
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 2, 2016
We added a really cool feature to our eLearning software Easygenerator this week, the “Review option” You can now invite anyone (they do not need a subscription) to your course by sharing a link and they can view the course in any browser. It is all built into our platform and it is very simple and effective.
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3 practical tips that will make your eLearning course more effective
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 3, 2015
I found that there are three simple things that will make the eLearning courses more effective: Have a clear goal. The wrong way to start creating an eLearning course. An eLearning course is very different from a (PowerPoint) presentation. An eLearning course is very different from a (PowerPoint) presentation.
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Smarter ways to improve the quality of Employee-generated Learning
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Many thousands of subject matter experts (SMEs) capture and share their knowledge in the form of a course or assessment using Easygenerator. Instead, SMEs have to send their courses to someone (or some controlling committee) for control. Make sure the name of the author is clearly visible in the course. Show the authors name.
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How subject matter experts can create more effective learning
Challenge to Learn
MAY 27, 2019
As a result, subject matter experts often create very content heavy courses that are not effective learning materials. They will create content heavy courses that are not engaging or effective. We found that with this simple approach courses will be between 40% and 60% smaller.
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Employee Generated Learning, a transcending role for Instructional Designers
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Any employee within an organization can create an e-Learning course about the topic that he or she is knowledgeable on. It is a shame if the course creation expertise of instructional designers is not utilized. Addressing these elements can be done by setting up learning goals and the course structure. The Co-creating role.
Moving learning back to the business
Challenge to Learn
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Companies hire learning specialists and instructional designers to create the training courses. All the content has to be checked and doublechecked before a course is ready to go live. As a result, courses often remain outdated. We're moving from courses to resources. What does this really mean?
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Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective
Challenge to Learn
MAY 3, 2016
They will make your lessons and courses more effective and more fun, and any teacher, trainer or coach can do it. The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course (or a combination. But do you also know that creating a course or a quiz is as simple as creating a video? Flip your classroom.
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181 The e-learning revolution is finally there
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 29, 2017
There is a switch from centrally created courses and assessments to decentralized creation; from instructional designers to Subject Matter Experts. Content creation by the learning department (or by third parties) is limited to high-risk compliance and security courses. The world of e-Learning is changing rapidly and fundamentally.
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When Technology is your Friend: Regaining Control of your Content
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 5, 2018
Of course, both you and your university worry about quality. You are nervous about the amount of time it takes to design an online course and may feel that you lack the necessary technology skills. Sorry, but you won't be able to change your course until three years from now! The latest research is ignored. They get to choose.
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Return on Investment or “ROI”: pie chart in the sky
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
In those days, a lot of businesses had a physical academy or a training centre, and they would fly people in to take courses in your standard classroom setting. The decentralized, agile employee generated e-Learning courses can help them do just that. Rewind to the 1990s, when e-Learning was starting to make a splash.
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Returning to the didactical roots: innovation in eLearning?
Challenge to Learn
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
By the way thanks to our new emerging standard (‘ Tincan API ’ aka ‘the experience API’) we will be able to measure this in real live and use the outcome in an eLearning course). You can’t create a course without a learning objective (if there no goal there is no point in creating a course after all) in easygenerator.
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Why Easygenerator will launch a free edition of her authoring software
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
It allows authors to develop complex adaptive eLearning courses in a very simple way. Easygenerator’s approach places learning objectives in the heart of every eLearning course. All of these are important things in improving the quality of eLearning courses. Changing the business model. This is the next step.
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Starting with e-Learning? Start with Easygenerator
Challenge to Learn
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Host the course. Share the course with learners. • Easygenerator has a built in didactical approach that will help you to create a better and more effective course based on learning objectives. Host the course. When you have created the course you must find a place on the web to place. Buy authoring software.
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Seven musts for creating effective elearning
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
But creating a course is very different from creating a presentation. You need to set a goal for your course or assessment! What will your learners be able to do (or know) after they have taken your course. Based on your course goal, you can create one or more (learning) objectives. A 15 to 30 minute course is best.If
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Learning objectives and how to create them
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 28, 2014
Dump a body of information in a course as if it was a PowerPoint. The idea is that we help people in this way to create better courses. However there is a catch: If you create bad learning objectives, you will get equally bad courses. First step is of course Learning objectives and Blooms taxonomy.
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Free eLearning software (Easygenerator) for teachers as of today!
Challenge to Learn
JULY 24, 2015
A lot of teachers and professors are using easygenerator to create courses and quizzes. It is cloud based, so you don’t have to install anything and you can create courses, quizzes and exams with it. On top of that we offer course hosting and result tracking as well. But most of them are on the limited Free Plan.
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What are the 5 most powerful didactical principles?
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 5, 2016
We know that our tool must be so intuitive that anyone can login and without any training can start creating courses, assessments, e-books and curated documents. They will go in with a Powerpoint mindset and create very content heavy courses without a proper didactical framework. But that is not sufficient.
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#Mlearncon keynote: Tamar Elkeles: a culture clash!
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 18, 2013
No courses but just apps. And at the same time very disruptive for an audience of instructional designers that create courses and for me as someone who’s company creates a course authoring tool. Basically it is very simple, they are creating an ecosystem of apps, all kinds of them. e-Learning Mlearncon mobile learning'
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How to support authors that have no experience?
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
By giving simple tools (like Easygenerator) to their Subject Matter Experts, they can have them create courses, quizzes and knowledge documents. They will create very content heavy courses that are not the most effective ones. We have defined a didactical process that will help authors to create a better (and smaller) course.
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100 How to select an e-Learning authoring tool
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 8, 2016
Like you use Word to create a document, PowerPoint to create a presentation, you can use an e-Learning authoring tool to create online courses and quizzes (e-Learning). You can’t create a whole course or a complete assessment. Just a onetime course, a series of courses, a whole Academy or maybe just a few assessments?
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120 The LMS is from the Past – The web is the future
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 14, 2014
to create courses and learning content. Let’s start with authoring courses. It allows you to create instructionally sound eLearning courses based on learning objectives. The courses are responsive (they will run one very device) and can be published to the web or an LMS. How does it work?
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A How to Guide on the Principles of the #elearningmanifesto: # 2 Do Not Assume that eLearning is the Answer
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 7, 2014
Is e-Learning a formal course or is everything you learn digitally eLearning? This is much more than a course. In this post I want to provide some rules of when to apply a formal course, when to apply a different form of eLearning or even when to apply something other than elearning. General indications.
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User Interface lessons applied to eLearning
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 28, 2016
As a result we now have the requirement that someone with no eLearning background should be able to use our tool and create a course or a quiz without any training. It also generated ideas that we will implement in Easygenerator and I found that a lot of the findings will apply to the development of eLearning courses as well.
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A new methaphor for e-Learning
Challenge to Learn
JANUARY 22, 2012
The old book-metaphor with chapters and pages is well suited for linear courses, but it doesn’t work for more flexible individual approaches of e-Learning. Looking at e-Learning courses I found a lot of metaphors. It’s a medical course where nurses have to learn how to solve certain cases. E-learning metaphors.
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252 Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective
Challenge to Learn
MAY 3, 2016
They will make your lessons and courses more effective and more fun, and any teacher, trainer or coach can do it. The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course (or a combination. But do you also know that creating a course or a quiz is as simple as creating a video? Flip your classroom.
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The how to guide on the principles of the #elearningmanifesto: 1 Do Not Assume that Learning is the Solution
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 30, 2014
Of course I do not have the knowledge nor the experience to cover this completely by myself. In fact before starting developing a course or a training you should always ask your yourself if you are fixing something that is wrong. You will find that you might end up making fewer courses for them, but you can gain a role as a consultant.
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198 Agile tips that will improve your eLearning development
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
If you create a course for an external customer that is easy. A user story describes a part of your course from the perspective of a learner. It will describe what the learner is able to do in your course. Maybe you can invite a couple of people to take your course and provide you feedback. The rule is less is better.
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100 Track and trace Learners results. What do SCORM compliance, AICC, XAPI and CMI5 mean?
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 21, 2015
A course is SCORM compliant when it meets the requirements of the standard set by the ADL. It makes it possible to create an e-Learning course in any authoring environment and run it in any SCORM compliant LMS and report your learners results to that LMS. You upload the SCORM compliant course in your LMS and invite your learners.
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A How to Guide on the Principles of the #elearningmanifesto: # 5 Provide realistic practice
Challenge to Learn
JULY 1, 2014
.” My response to this is, of course we do this. This leads to other learning experiences than only courses. This leads to other learning experiences than only courses. The goal is to support the learner (employee) during his moment of learning need on-the-job which lessens the focus on courses than previously.
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Sharing your knowledge: What’s in it for you?
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Companies are using our authoring tool Easygenerator to create user-generated learning (courses, quizzes and curated documents, created by experts in the company). Creating a course or a curated document takes time, but it is effective in the long run. Of course, a big part of this is about you wanting to help out your co-workers.
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Book review: Blackboard essentials for teachers
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 23, 2012
It is an instructional book on how to build courses in Blackboard. It has tips and warnings and could actually guide a teacher through the complex system Blackboard is and let him create, publish and use an eLearning course. If I was a teacher and had to create a course within Blackboard I would be very happy with this book.
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70:20:10 and user generated learning: no way!
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
In my definition user generated learning are learning nuggets, courses, quizzes or curated content that is created by the subject matter experts of your organization and shared with the other members of your organization. On top of that, authors can work together within Easygenerator to create a course. And there is a second point.
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100 Learning path in easygenerator: beta testers wanted!
Challenge to Learn
JULY 10, 2015
That is the reason we have implemented Learning objectives as part of the flow of the course creation, it is also the reason we have our learning objective maker by easygenerator , based on Blooms taxonomy. A Learning Path is a list of courses that you can publish as one learning experience. Day 2: small intro course.
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#Mlearncon Sarah K. Arkins: Mobile development: Elements and principles
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 26, 2014
Another crash course for me, she covered all key elements and principles. A session on (mobile) interface design. Good session. Key messages: only use what is really necessary and it is al about the tiny choices! Instructional design mlearncon mobile design mobile instructional design'
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168 Make e-Learning work: Outcome learning (6): the vendors perspective
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 16, 2011
We have defined three goals we wanted to achieve: Support the course design based on learning objectives. Make it possible to create courses that really adapt to the learner and put the learner in control of his individual learning. The goal was after all to create adaptive courses with true individual learning paths.
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12 e-Learning trends that you need to know about
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 26, 2016
Of course is mobile learning a trend, people are using their phones and tablets all the time and for learning purposes as well. The trick is to add value, there is no added value in running a default course on a smart phone. The result is a huge database with results of many learners.
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#mlearncon Tim Wright. using empirical research to get MLearning right
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 25, 2014
This session turned out to be a crash course on instructional design, based on what has proven to be working. Eight great guidelines. More details on his website: [link]. Instructional design instructional design tips'
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DevLearn evaluation: The gap is widening: We are in a crisis!
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 31, 2014
The majority of the presenters is telling the audience that we need to integrate learning into the business, that we need to move from courses to performance support and knowledge management, that we need to go from designed content to user generated courses. I learned a lot and got some new insights. So there still is hope.
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My E-learning predictions and plans for 2011 #LCBQ
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
I believe that in the long-term we will move from formal e-learning (courses in a LMS or classroom) more and more towards just-in-time workplace learning that supports the informal learning processes. Form courses to nuggets and collaboration. The courses that remain will (should) become more and more adaptive.
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211 Book review: Leaving ADDIE for SAM: will agile eLearning development become mainstream?
Challenge to Learn
MAY 3, 2013
I believe if you translate this to e-Learning development, it will change not only the way we create e-Learning courses, but also the courses itself. It lists the short comings of a lot of e-Learning courses in a clear way. Michael and Richard present us an agile alternative for ADDIE: SAM (Successive Approximation Model).
Six trends that impact L&D in 2018 and beyond
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 11, 2018
Any employee within an organization creates e-learning courses on topics in which he or she is an expert. Growing awareness of the pitfalls of massive open online course (MOOCs). Mobile learning has become indispensable. A shift away from traditional learning management systems.
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97 Context, Context, Context will make e-Learning work! #LCBQ May
Challenge to Learn
MAY 9, 2011
was about creating courses (now wrapped in Scorm), 2.0 still a course. It’s not that courses have completely lost their value, but they can only have value as a part of an effective e-Learning solution. solutions where a course might play a role instead of creating just courses. Internet 1.0 E-Learning 1.0
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