Integrated Learnings

MARCH 11, 2012

Storyboarding for an eLearning course can be a very effective way to lay out the overall look and feel of your course, as evidenced by this post by Donna Bryant. However, if you want to build your storyboard or your course directly in Lectora, you can use the Notes function to place notes on each page. By Dean Hawkinson.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 25, 2012

An important step in eLearning course development is getting feedback and approval from key stakeholders such as subject matter experts and other team members. Sometimes however, just getting a copy of a course to those stakeholders can be a challenge. Lost a USB drive distributing courses by hand. 6 built course to ReviewLink.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

In this book, Shepherd makes the point that we, as instructional designers, need to shift our focus from simple course creation to that of an architect who designs an entire learning environment, similar to the way an architect designs environments for living and working.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

PowerPoint-based rapid eLearning tools, such as Articulate Presenter and Snap by Lectora, allow branched navigation, meaning you can create a non-linear navigation path still controlled through the course player’s next and back buttons. Here is the full list of all available actions (some may not apply to course development): Normal.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 16, 2011

I recently completed an eLearning course (as a learner, not as an instructional designer) on project management. The entire course was narrated. The concepts taught in the course were relatively simple. Eventually, I got further sucked into the multitasking and found myself half-listening to the course (at best).

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2010

Regardless of the extent of your background in instructional design, I think just about everyone can agree that capturing learners’ attention at the start of an eLearning course (and engaging interest throughout) is critical. Of course, this element should be a part of every course. --7-- We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 15, 2012

In the process, though, they learned new things from each other, which was the point of the course – interaction and collaboration. The training consisted of four one-week courses, with several weeks on the sales floor between each one to implement learnings. These are just a few suggestions.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 17, 2012

Many eLearning courses walk learners through a detailed process flow within the course, and then the eLearning courses tell learners that a job aid with the same information is also available for reference later. As a result, you may be able to reduce the number of job tasks you need to include in an eLearning course.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Using audio narration in eLearning courses has been debated from both sides – some people feel that it is an enhancement that assists the learner in completing the course, while others argue that it can be distracting. One challenge is that the narrator must narrate the entire course at once, allowing little room for mistakes.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 25, 2010

A good developer is always looking to improve a course offering. Before the course goes out, we may run a pilot or find some testers to give us feedback and look for errors. However, there is no better feedback you can get than from the learners who take the course themselves. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Three more articles focus on specific components of those models: 6 Techniques that Stimulate Recall in eLearning 7 Techniques to Capture Attention in eLearning Start and End eLearning Courses with Methods That Facilitate Learning. A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning Rapid Development the Agile Way. Happy new year!

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I recently had the chance to attend a two-day course on using Lectora. So, attending this course was a good “back to basics” for me, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn a few tips and tricks that I did not know about Lectora. Let’s assume you edit a lot of images for your course. By Dean Hawkinson. It is that simple.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2012

Best of all, when a Text Style is updated, any affected text in a course is also updated. For example, if you are asked to change the page titles of an entire course from blue to green, you could do so with one quick change rather than manually fix every page. Styles you create and change are not tied to a specific course.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 6, 2011

You should, of course, follow all instructional design and adult learning principles, and be careful not to make your PowerPoint too wordy and un-interesting to your learners. Your course should be engaging and keep the interest of your learners. To publish your course, click the Publish button. Select SCORM 1.2

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 27, 2011

Let’s say you are creating a course that teaches managers how to have a successful performance management coaching discussion with employees. Let’s take the same scenario and think about how an eLearning course could teach the same thing. The course would then provide feedback based on the learner’s response.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 9, 2010

After weeks – perhaps months – of analysis, design, and development, you finally have a completed and fully functional eLearning course. Before rolling it out to the masses (assuming that’s your eventual intent), you should probably pilot the course with a small group of learners from your target audience. And a relief. So now what?

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 13, 2011

Yet, in the tradition of building bulleted lists in PowerPoint, text dominates many eLearning courses. If I've written out a step-by-step process in an eLearning course, I try to replace it with a diagram. We know that meaningful images provide a memorable and efficient way to learn information. a flowchart, labeled image, etc.).

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

That’s because it’s just some useful code capable of extending the functionality of your Lectora-built eLearning course. This means anytime you need to pull content from an external source into your Lectora course, an iFrame is a simple and safe solution. An iFrame is an HTML element that allows you to place a page within a page.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 17, 2011

Lectora’s progress bars are like a “You are here” marker for eLearning courses, providing visual feedback to users about their progress. When you want to visually indicate to users how far they have progressed in a course, a Table of Contents type progress bar is ideal. Don’t you love when a map tells you that? Table of Contents.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 25, 2010

If your organization regularly deploys eLearning, templates that offer a consistent look and feel across courses can also make eLearning easier to use. In the design phase of a training project, we should consider what types of flexibility might be designed into the course. What do you think?

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Sometimes an eLearning course needs to be enhanced with an image , but finding the right one can be a chore in itself. Of course, high end graphic editing requires a high end program, but PowerPoint is certainly capable of commonly made basic edits such as: Crop. By Joseph Suarez. Basic effects (such as drop shadow and soft edges).

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Lectora University : Trivantis’s own collection of helpful resources including recordings of all past “Inspiration Wednesdays” webinars and downloadable course examples. Yes, your Captivate Sim can drive your Lectora Course. Incorporating the Learner’s Name into your Lectora Course. Official Resources from Trivantis.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 18, 2014

And, you’ve designed a course, which consists of several lessons. Of course, the aim is for the objectives, activities, and on-the-job behaviors to align as closely as possible. By Shelley A. You’ve completed your analysis. So, you’re at the point where you’re about to start drafting lesson materials.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I was part of a team last year that worked on a large eLearning course, which consisted of several hours of eLearning lessons that learners completed over a four-week period. Even if all information in a course is critical, designers still need to find ways to highlight what learners may or may not need to note. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 9, 2013

Let's look at a few of the more common temptations lurking out there to torment those who partake in e-learning courses. Take a moment to empathize with these folks by asking the same question for an e-learning course. They can set the mood for the course. Resist these and your learners will thank you.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 24, 2013

By Dean Hawkinson Recently, I had the opportunity to design my first paperless classroom course , which used iPads to support its delivery. Of course, if you are doing a lot of training, this cost will be offset by the savings in print material costs. Cost – A budget needs to be allocated to purchase the iPads for the classroom.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 23, 2011

Understand what “fits” to the technology – A 30-minute web-based course might work well on a PC over the web, but will it work on a smartphone? However, it would probably not work for a group of call center representatives who do not have any mobile devices on which to receive the mLearning and tend to stay at one PC.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

For anyone who’s in the midst of designing an eLearning course, have you figured out how you’re going to evaluate its success? Consider questions like: - How easy was the eLearning course and its activities to use? Ratings on even a few items should give you a sense of how favorably learners tended to view the course.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Ideally, this is where you will spend all of your time developing the course. The run-time code is used to send messages to the LMS like "the course was started", "the learner scored 80% on the quiz", and "the learner has mastered this material". Many times the learning content contains a quiz as well. SCORM Run-Time.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Historically, eLearning consisted of a course that a user would view on the computer, complete independently, and have the completion show in a company’s Learning Management System (LMS). Why not develop the course, and include these social tools for interactivity among participants that are all completing the same course?

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 25, 2013

eLearning – In a web-based course, QR codes can be presented on your pages for easy scanning to access websites via a smartphone or tablet, or to obtain documents stored on a server. However, you would be able to use a QR code on the computer or printed material for that mobile device to scan and access the mLearning course itself.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 2, 2012

For example, you may want to pull in one or two informative graphics from the face-to-face version of the course. Another example, you may have asked a subject matter expert to put together a graphic or animation to use in the course. As is quite common, they may be familiar with PowerPoint but not have Captivate installed.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In an earlier post on the Integrated Learnings: eLearning blog , Jonathan mentioned embedding a YouTube video in a Lectora course title. Within your Lectora course, go to the page where you want the video and click the Add External HTML icon. Now go to the YouTube video that you want to run in your course.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 30, 2011

--4-- Consider a collaboration site for anyone going through an eLearning course to discuss the learning.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 25, 2009

I can remember a project a few years ago where the subject matter expert (SME) fought and fought to include his 20-step process (complete with details and charts) in the course we were developing. He eventually persuaded his boss and won out, so we built the process into the course. There are two purposes to this story.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 17, 2011

Video can be an engaging enhancement to an eLearning course built with Lectora. These controls can also visually clash with an eLearning course’s template or theme. For example, a red and white course template will create a distracting visual contrast to Windows Media Player’s black and blue controls.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 26, 2011

For eLearning, it shifts our paradigm from a course being a learning “event” to creating an entire learning environment in which the eLearning course is only a piece of the learning. Meier challenged us to always focus our material on how the learner can build his or her own learning. Geodesic Thinking.

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