Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

I often see community members asking how to lock down a course. The reason for this is that people want to make sure learners see everything in the course. This is especially important in compliance training, where the goal is to ensure that everyone takes the course and is exposed to all the material. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Quick Microlearning Course for Creating AI Illustrated Characters I used Rise 360 to put together a simple course that shows the process I go through to create the free illustrated characters I’ve been sharing. Click here to view the course. Free E-Learning Resources Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is important to manage the customer relationship while building courses, as customers may not always know what they want. Customers often default to building more training as a solution to issues, but course designers need to step in and provide the best solution. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here are four examples from the weekly challenge that demonstrate this: 360° Image Example: Once in a Lifetime. This is a bit playful and outside the realm of e-learning, but what I like is that it’s a clever way to navigate through content. View 360° image example via Jonathan Hill. This is just a sampling.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

You built an e-learning course and the client is happy. There’s a lot that happens between getting the course uploaded and then delivered to those who need to consume it. Once a course is built, it needs to be rolled out to its intended audience. Where is the course housed? Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ever wonder how to present e-learning course ideas to your customers? I had a conversation the other day with someone who was presented with a somewhat boring course project. This is a common challenge because the easiest course to build is the linear, explainer type course with information and next buttons.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2023

We’ve all been there, building courses where we don’t have much say in the content. You know the ones I’m talking about – those compliance courses or those annual refreshers that are driven by content more so than performance. Not everyone needs to go through the entire course. Context is king.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

If you’re not using Rise.com or a learning management system to manage your e-learning courses, then you’ll need another way to upload courses to a web server to share. In an earlier post we looked at using Amazon S3 to share courses and today we’ll look at using Google Cloud.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2022

From an ideal perspective, when we build courses, we’re trying to change performance and not just share a bunch of information. That means we need a course design model that goes beyond content-sharing. One common approach for online course design is the Tell, Show, and Do model. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

Visually branding your e-learning courses is a common requirement. A great way to figure out how to brand the course is by mimicking what’s available publicly from the organization’s website (and intranet). Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 31, 2023

.” Take that same emotion and apply it to typical e-learning courses, especially annual compliance and certification training. Most of those courses have what appears to be valuable content, but for the learner, the course is a lot of “need to know” but very little “need to do.”

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 28, 2023

This is a common problem in our industry and the reason a lot of e-learning courses (and training programs for that matter) are ineffective. You’ve built enough courses to anticipate some of the issues that arise or common obstacles. Be confident in explaining your ideas and why they are suitable for the course.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2022

The objective of an e-learning program is to be effective by creating the best courses possible with the resources at hand. From what I see, most e-learning courses are simple, explainer-type content. However, many of those courses tend to be overbuilt with superfluous interactivity.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

We all like to see good e-learning examples. That’s one reason I really enjoy the e-learning challenges. They’re usually not full-fledged courses, but they often have some interesting elements. ski , shared a really nice example. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” I say this all the time when building courses. The course we’re building exists to help meet the performance objective; but the course itself is not the objective. This takes us back to what we discussed earlier: the problem of locking the course navigation. Or how do we know they are learning?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2022

For a recent conference, we created a QR code to access the handouts and examples. They’re worth considering as one more way to share resources in your e-learning courses. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

I haven’t taken a survey, but my guess is that most people will tell you they can’t stand when an e-learning course’s navigation is locked. And to compound the frustration, many of those courses are narrated by the world’s slowest talkers. If a locked course is a frustrating experience, why do so many exist?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When someone first starts to build an e-learning course, one of the first things I recommend is determining the colors they’ll use. This way, every time you build a course the theme colors are set up the same and you can easily swap them out when needed. Courses usually have a main color and an accent color.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. This e-learning 101 series and the free e-books will help.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

One of my favorite sites for free stock images is Unsplash.com. They provide hundreds of free stock images with a Creative Commons Zero license. Unfortunately, while it’s great to get a boatload of free stock images, many of them are mostly decorative and hard to use for elearning courses. Thank you, Unsplash!

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But what do you do if you want some graphics or illustrations to go with your Rise 360 courses? Use the same accent colors for the Rise 360 course and the unDraw illustrations and they look like they belong together. Here’s an example where I matched the accent color in Rise 360 with the free illustrations from unDraw.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In a recent post we looked at boring course content. Today we’ll look at how to deal with the bored people when building e-learning courses. E-Learning Courses Should Be Relevant and Meaningful. There’s a lot to learn about instructional design with all the theories and models.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Many e-learning designers are challenged because they don’t often build accessible e-learning courses. So, they’re not sure what accessibility means and how it impacts course design. An attendee asked, “What’s wrong with retrofitting a course?”. Understanding Accessible E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 13, 2018

I came into rapid e-learning from the world of Authorware and Flash where building courses took a lot of time and cost a lot more money. Initially, I only used it to storyboard my course content and interactions in PowerPoint. Myth 1: Rapid E-Learning Is Crapid E-Learning!

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As a steward of an organization’s e-learning resources, it’s essential to make decisions that improve the bottom line. Aligning e-learning courses to the organization’s performance goals is key to ensuring positive results. Want to learn more? Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Lots of really good sessions to improve your course design skills and learn some cool tips using Articulate 360. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

For example, when I work with a.story file that’s on Dropbox, I’ll sometimes get some sort of syncing error or a series of duplicated or conflicted files. Of course, that requires you remembering to do so, but that’s where the next step comes in. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2023

Copying text from images comes in handy especially when updating old e-learning courses. In those cases, do a screen grab of the course and then extract the text from the image. Then copy and paste the text into the application you use to build your e-learning courses. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not surprised that there are problems with many training courses. People complain about the courses they’re taking, the quality of the courses, and the fact that they’re often forced to take courses they don’t want to take. Learners need a reason to take the course.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

In an ideal world, you create an e-learning course, publish it, and put it online. The reality is that there are many variables between the technology and the individual users and how they access the courses. So if you need to troubleshoot why a course isn’t working, send them the link above. See you in 2023.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 5, 2023

There are three primary forms of onscreen interaction used in e-learning courses : clicking, mouseovering and dragging. Recently, I was experimenting with a mouseover interaction concept which was mainly a gimmick, and wouldn’t be feasible as a real e-learning course. Mobile Devices. Accessibility.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

Free Coronavirus Stock Photos. These stock photos are provided courtesy of Icons8. Coronavirus stock photos. Free Coronavirus Course. Cut through the confusion surrounding the new coronavirus with this free course that aims to dispel misinformation about COVID-19 (courtesy of Articulate). They’re free to use.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 20, 2021

And when I heard we had a 3-hour harassment course coming, my first emotional response wasn’t positive. Why do I shudder thinking of taking a 3-hour e-learning course? I hear all the time that e-learning courses are boring. We have conferences that teach us how to build better courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m in the e-learning community every day helping people troubleshoot their e-learning courses. Often, it’s a matter of troubleshooting how the course is constructed. Like the Xfinity technician, people take courses on a variety of devices and in various environments. Well, I was mistaken.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 6, 2021

“Where do I put my e-learning courses?” ” The answer to this seems obvious to someone who’re been building courses for a while. Today, we’ll do a quick survey of some common considerations when it comes to getting a course to your learners. ” Then you should learn a bit more.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One challenge I see for those who are just getting started with e-learning is that while they have the authoring tools to build the courses, they tend to lack the other connections and resources to pull the courses together. Someone is commissioning the course. Who will review the course? And at what point.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2020

One of the top questions about e-learning is how to make boring course content more engaging and interactive. Considering the state of many e-learning courses, it’s a good question. Is Course Content Boring? What is Boring Course? There are boring courses. But that’s OK.

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