Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even if you don’t know the business purpose behind the last elearning course you developed, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Whether they are large or small, asking yourself – how will “this” help the business meet its goals? How will knowing this keep you aligned with the “North Star” of business needs?

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Learning Rebels

MAY 18, 2018

In our organization, this simple style of video was used as an introduction to an eLearning course on an important topic with a member of management. Ask managers to video their answers to a “homework” assignment to be reviewed by the instructor or peer-reviewed by the class.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 28, 2015

His company, LearnHaus, specializes in custom elearning and mobile learning, creating solutions that build on the learning strategies of organizations to increase performance. On of the most anticipated events of the conference was of course the networking night at Universal Studios and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Diagon Alley.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The common refrain is a training course hasn’t clearly articulated the “What’s In It For Me” (WIIFM) factor. These three factors will help to build learning motivation in your workshops, courses or classes. Can these same techniques be used in elearning? A small but powerful change in wording. Absolutely.

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 10, 2015

L&D is still looking for bells, whistles, butterflies and unicorns for its elearning courses. To keep it simple, I’ll tell you which definition speaks to me: I also like this short, simple post he wrote for the elearning Industry, giving us all 5 rules of the road for producing micro-videos. Now – of course).

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Learning Rebels

JULY 27, 2016

If you are a writer, either a writer of training materials, elearning courses, guidebooks, regular books, blogs, newsletters…if you write you can feel my pain. Fingers crouched over the keyboard, stuck in a clawed position – if I leave these fingers here, perhaps by some miracle, words will trickle out.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 1, 2016

Yes, of course, you want to hear the wise words from the stars of L&D, but chatting about what you’ve learned with other attendees is inevitably the juiciest and most memorable part. That’s how I finally met Shannon Tipton (one of my eLearning idols) and was invited to write this very post. Then an unexpected opportunity appeared.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Of course not! Your organization does not care about the pain it took you to get that important course online. They care about getting the information when THEY need it without having to sleep through your boring, tedious elearning course (regardless as to how wonderful you think it is). Or the Director of Operations?

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Learning Rebels

DECEMBER 30, 2014

In a decaying (rotting) state, with discolored skin and eyes: The elearning developer stripped of the creative side of their brain staring forlornly at their securely locked computer screen. Tackling specific categories such as: Elearning, Adult Learning, Social Media, Branding/Marketing? What would you like to see more of in 2015?

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Learning Rebels

MAY 26, 2015

She has 15 years of experience designing learning in corporate training, 5 years as a teacher at the primary level, and 5 years writing elearning and teaching in higher education. Jean has been in the learning business since she began conducting school in the cellar with her dolls and stuffed animals. Ok, I admit it. I’m a learning junkie.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 25, 2018

Just as elearning wasn’t the magic bullet for training, neither is microlearning. A microlearning course should be a journey, bringing the user from point to point with a beginning, a middle and an end with the end result being a specific application of knowledge. 5) Microlearning is one-size fits all. .

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