The eLearning Coach

MAY 8, 2012

Have you ever conducted a messy photo shoot for an eLearning course? Post from: The eLearning Coach Planning A Photo Shoot For eLearning? Post from: The eLearning Coach Planning A Photo Shoot For eLearning? One where you ran from location to location and everyone was confused and exhausted?

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 29, 2023

RESOURCES: * Think-Aloud Observations to Improve Online Course Design: A Case Example and “How-to” Guide (Research discussed in this podcast) * Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug * Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug * Learner and User Experience Research by Dr. Check back please.

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 6, 2023

WE DISCUSS: * Defining usability * Usability issues in learning products * Why there is more emphasis on usability for website design than learning design * How a poor user experience affects learning * How the think-aloud method works * Benefits of using think-aloud to watch learners use the products you design * Downside of the think-aloud method (..)

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The most efficient way to achieve consistency in visual design for an eLearning course or presentation is to write a visual style guide. In either situation, here are some benefits of writing an eLearning visual style guide. Provides one visual standard for an entire course, curriculum or company.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Have you ever had difficulty persuading a client to accept your course design? Here are ten strategies that may help you be more convincing.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 18, 2011

Although there are many education-related podcasts, there are surprisingly few devoted to eLearning in the workplace. eLearning Stuff is produced by James Clay, a learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College. Topics have included: beers, Zebra Zap, Captivate, Articulate and the eLearning Guild’s Authoring Tools Report.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 10, 2009

We have reality tv and virtual reality, so why not reality eLearning? How can we add a dose of reality to our courses and why would we want to anyway? Do you ever lie awake at night and ponder how well the skills, knowledge and attitudes explored in your courses transfer to the reality in which your learners exist?

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One thing we can learn from the field of User Experience design is how to create user personas , better known as learner personas in the world of eLearning. Personas are well-developed profiles of audience member groups for whom we are designing a course. Every course has at least one audience group and most courses have several.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 7, 2016

He has spent years exploring the best ways to conduct course evaluations and has compiled his findings in an excellent book, Performance-focused Smile Sheets: A Radical Rethinking of a Dangerous Art Form. Will Thalheimer, PhD, cares about improving the products that learning professionals create.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 25, 2009

As designers and developers, we can make sure our audiences have smooth interactions with our courses. After all, good user interface design is an essential part of eLearning. In eLearning, we can get quite creative with these models. Post from: The eLearning Coach User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated.

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The eLearning Coach

JUNE 4, 2015

Post from: The eLearning Coach 8 Tips For Preparing Audio Scripts For Recording. If you've been wondering what it takes to work with a professional narrator and studio or if you'd just like to shorten recording time, preparing your script can smooth out the session kinks.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Similar to the curator of a gallery who selects relevant artwork for visitors to see, a content curator selects meaningful resources to engage and educate a specific audience.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 20, 2021

Too many bullet lists in an eLearning course or slide presentation can be mind-numbing. Here are six visual alternatives to bullet points.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Today I attended a kickoff meeting to design and build a course that teaches medical personnel about venous access devices (VADs) and how to prevent infections from their use. This typical day reminded me of the hazards, joys and oddities of being an eLearning designer and developer, a few of which I’ll summarize here.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 17, 2009

Adding realism to eLearning should improve learning transfer, which will prepare learners for situations they might really encounter. Realism also adds credibility to a training course, which is quite important to the busy, cynical, or tired employee. How do you add realism to your courses? Post from: The eLearning Coach.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 17, 2009

Adding realism to eLearning should improve learning transfer, which will prepare learners for situations they might really encounter. Realism also adds credibility to a training course, which is quite important to the busy, cynical, or tired employee. How do you add realism to your courses? Post from: The eLearning Coach.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 6, 2022

RESOURCES: * Breaking into Instructional Design: Free 12-lesson email course about getting started in the career. . * Future career paths. * TIME: 16 minutes. TRANSCRIPT: . ELC 075: Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design. Mastering Instructional Design : A learning community for building ID skills.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2023

RESOURCES: * Talk to the Elephant by Julie Dirksen * Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen * Usable Learning: Julie's website * Sticky Learning : Julie's online course * Are you getting any better? Previous podcast with Julie about improving the feedback loop for learning design

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Having taught many workshops, Cammy is in tune with the needs and questions that […] Post from: The eLearning Coach ELC 020: How To Avoid Clicky-Clicky-Bling-Bling. She writes and speaks about ways to avoid the dreaded type of eLearning that puts audiences to sleep. Podcasts'

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Think of a course as laying the foundation for continuous learning rather than an end in itself. Base your designs on the advantages of using smaller courses, spaced learning, human interaction and user-generated materials.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Some things to consider when deciding what fonts to use in an eLearning course. Post from: The eLearning Coach What font should I use?

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 7, 2011

Find out 5 ways to increase learning transfer in your courses. Post from: The eLearning Coach Don’t you hope your surgeon had real-world training?

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 19, 2015

After you’ve designed and developed 60 million eLearning courses, you’re bound to start looking around for something new. Here, I’m going to take you on a tour of GoAnimate, where I think you can have a creative and fun experience. […] Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Create An Animated Video.

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The eLearning Coach

MAY 19, 2010

Post from: The eLearning Coach Instructional Designers Are Content Neutral. Tags: DESIGN INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN content organization course design instructional designers. It's difficult for some people to understand that instructional designers can work with any type of content. Here are some ways we do it.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

When designing or developing an online course or app, how much effort do you put into the small interactive details? Dan is Creative Director of new products at Jawbone, where he designs next generation products and services for wearables […] Post from: The eLearning Coach Microinteractions: Designing The Small Details.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 13, 2011

Yet too many bullet lists in an eLearning course or slide presentation can be repetitious and mind-numbing. Below, what could have been a bullet list of eLearning design skills is placed in horizontally arranged text boxes with a 1 pixel border. These cutout people are from the eLearning Brothers. Comment below.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Need more interactive options in your courses? Check out these Flash Interaction Templates from the eLearning Brothers. Post from: The eLearning Coach Flash Interactions The Easy Way.

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The eLearning Coach

JUNE 8, 2011

It's easy to change the look and feel of Articulate courses using player skins. Post from: The eLearning Coach Articulate Presenter Skins: A Review. See my results.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 3, 2010

For answers to eLearning related questions, try one of the LinkedIn eLearning Groups with a high membership, like The eLearning Guild or Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals’ Group. We now have lots of options for taking free online college courses. elearning 2.0 Hang Out with Professors.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

That’s a big challenge for a course designer. Chunking for eLearning. Without an instructor to answer questions and to guide the learning process, eLearning content has to be organized in a logical and progressive way through chunking. Use a chunking strategy while determining the content hierarchy of a course.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Learning experience designers handle all types of content for a wide variety of uses, from formal courses to performance support aids. Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond by Rosenfeld, Morville & Arango Get smart about online learning with The eLearning Coach Newsletter delivered to your Inbox every month.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2009

For a reasonable monthly fee and no long-term commitment required, lynda.com gives you access to a long list of well-designed courses that teach how to use both leading and somewhat obscure software products as well as web development topics, like HTML, Javascript and usability testing. The courses are instructionally sound.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 30, 2010

If more of us thought in terms of product design, our courses would be more engaging, more exciting and more to the point. Post from: The eLearning Coach Think Like A Product Designer.

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The eLearning Coach

JUNE 23, 2010

Tired of the same boring slide-based courses? Post from: The eLearning Coach 10 Best Articulate Presenter Tricks and Tips. Liven things up with this little bit of magic.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 19, 2009

Recently, an astute eLearning Coach reader emailed this question, “How do you visualize the narration so that the graphic or animation is emphasizing the narration and vice versa? Unnamed Reader, particularly because eLearning is such a visual medium that the graphics are a large part of how people respond to a course.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

The eLearning White Space. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. We don’t typically think of eLearning as a place to linger. It’s not often that you hear someone say, “I think I’ll light some candles, make a cup of chamomile tea, and chill with an eLearning course.&#.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

The eLearning White Space. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. We don’t typically think of eLearning as a place to linger. It’s not often that you hear someone say, “I think I’ll light some candles, make a cup of chamomile tea, and chill with an eLearning course.&#.

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