LearnDash

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Trying to grow the audience for your course the natural way? Many course creators start their programs on a shoestring budget , and when they think about marketing, their first impulse is to turn toward paid media. Paid advertising on platforms like Google, Facebook, or Instagram can, of course, achieve excellent results.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Blogging, presenting, and other forms of sharing expertise I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about scenario-based learning, instructional design, and other topics. Last year, I spent about 10 hours each month on my blog. 75% of those found me via my blog; the rest found me on LinkedIn.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction Who deserves access to your eLearning courses? I’ll share a few techniques I use for creating Storyline courses so they’re more accessible to users with disabilities. If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In our recent post on building SEO strength , we talked about the basic best practices you can follow to help grow organic traffic to your course website. If I had to guess, I would bet that most educators are better and writing good SEO content than otherwise. But to gain followers and readers, your blog needs to have value.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 5, 2021

Ready to take your course to the next level in 2021? While New Year’s Resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep, when it comes to your online course, setting just one or two major goals for the year on top of what you’re already accomplishing can get you a long way. Here are some ideas for how to improve.

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LearnDash

JUNE 29, 2022

Organizing and selling your online course with email marketing is easier than you think. Do you want to learn how to build and promote your new online course? To master your email marketing strategy, you must know how to write high-performing emails. 3 tips for organizing your online course with email marketing.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

Questions about writing branching scenarios? Do you have questions about writing branching scenarios, including writing questions and options like these? Many of my blog posts are based on questions I get from readers. I may answer it in a future blog post. Enroll by 1/24 to be sure you have a spot in the course.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Top 5 new blog posts of 2022. I wrote about 30 new blog posts this year and updated about 20 older posts. These are the top five new blog posts for 2022. How Research Informs My Work : How research informs my work as an instructional designer, in writing, designing, and justifying my decisions.

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Paradiso Solutions

JUNE 8, 2021

Let’s dive deep into this topic and discuss more on instructional design essentials in this blog. Learning products such as eLearning courses, simulation training, instructional manuals, video tutorials, and more. Design eLearning courses and innovate curriculum with Paradiso’s subject matter and experienced instructional designer.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The fastest way online courses run into trouble is when they’re launched with insufficient planning. Without planning your course, you can easily create a series of lessons that miss their target audience, fail to meet learner needs, or don’t establish a strong course objective. Research your audience.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Coming Soon: Build Your Branching Scenario online course. I’m currently building an 8-week online course to teach my entire process for building branching scenarios from start to finish. I’ll post more about this on my blog soon, but if you want to be sure to get an email when enrollment opens, sign up for the waitlist.

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LearnDash

APRIL 13, 2021

When considering ways to address the problem of trust in marketing, your first instinct might be to start talking about how trustworthy you are and what a great course you have to offer. When someone completes your course, prompt them to leave a review at the end. Be prepared to write it quickly and send it to them for approval.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A lot, obviously (7 books, numerous articles, this blog, white papers, …). As another colleague who just published posted some thoughts on what they learned, I realize it may be appropriate to toss out some thoughts on writing books. I know some of the barriers to writing a book, for sure. Same with writing.

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learnWorlds

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Are you on the lookout for some great online course ideas? We’ve done the research to find the most profitable and on high demand online courses. Whether you’re looking for a side hustle or want to create a successful online course business for a specific target audience , you’ll find what you need right here.

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LearnDash

JULY 11, 2019

You’ve spent hours building an online course which you hope will instruct learners and help them take the next step forward in their career, learn a new hobby, or expand their horizons. All that’s left is the course description: your first (and maybe last) opportunity to inspire learners to sign up. Not a problem, right?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on instructional writing, identifying strengths, project management tools, design principles, and more. Instructional writing. The before and after writing example shows what a significant difference it can make. Writing robotic speech.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Most ID and elearning work is work-for-hire, but sometimes you create something you should license so you can also reuse it (like non-confidential portions of a course for your portfolio). As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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LearnDash

APRIL 13, 2023

YouTube is one of the best places on the internet to promote and sell your online course. As a course creator, more subscribers means more leads and a boost in the passive income generated through your elearning platform. With that in mind, here are the seven steps to start a YouTube channel to complement your online courses.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Blogging is one of the oldest marketing tools on the Internet—and still one of the best. If you’re like many of our users, you may have put hours into developing your course, and are now faced with a common conundrum: how do you attract learners to sign up? Yes, I am talking about blogging. Blog about it.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. I used it to create the presentations for my Build Your Branching Scenario course. WordPress has been my tool of choice for blogging for over 15 years. Work and self-development.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on writing branching scenarios, free tools, content curation, xAPI, and getting started in Storyline. Writing branching scenarios. Does writing style change how learners perceive choices in a branched scenario? Learningworld Design.

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LifterLMS

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In this LMScast episode, Nick Usborne delves into the deep effects of emotional intelligence and AI on successful communication, with a focus on course building and copywriting. Here’s Where To Go Next… Get the Course Creator Starter Kit to help you (or your client) create, launch, and scale a high-value online learning website.

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Skillquore

APRIL 23, 2022

There are some interesting online courses in languages and culture. This write-up deals with the Top 7 languages and culture courses available online. This short course in Italian language and culture is self-paced. The course is free although you will need to buy a verified certificate.

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LearnDash

MAY 5, 2020

Here’s how you can teach them in your course. These are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It’s also the case that two are passive skills (listening and reading), while two are active skills (speaking and writing). Writing: mastering formal communication. Writing: mastering formal communication.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 22, 2020

I of course offered some suggestions, and he opined that I could (and should) be helping others too. Which, of course, I agree with, because that’s what I do. So, here, is a brief summary of my experience taking courses online. For the latter, I led the learning design effort to get an innovative course online.

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LearnDash

APRIL 18, 2018

How to build a market for your online course from an audience of 0. The biggest challenge in launching your first online course lies in finding your audience. You probably have a group of personal contacts who might be willing to share a post or two about your course on social media, but that will only get you so far.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Listen to unique ideas (sometimes) or interesting approaches, write it all down, get enthralled about the idea, say to yourself, I am going to implement this, and then return back and do nothing. There are pre-assumptions in play if you attend a workshop or seminar on instructional design or course building. What to Ignore ADDIE.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Your first course is a learning experience for you, too, so know what you want to learn from it. For many of those starting off in online education, the biggest challenge is creating their first course. Otherwise, these tips are here to help you gain traction with launching your first online course. Start small. Start small.

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Skillquore

APRIL 8, 2022

If you are an aspiring writer and one day want to be a successful author, we have picked eight of the best online courses for you. That is why this course is essential for anyone who wants to hone his storytelling techniques. 2- Online refresher course in arts (literature and culture): Now, this is an exciting course.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 1, 2019

Without a positive feedback loop from the course design, the instructor, and even the fellow students, learners have a hard time assessing their progress. Here are a few ways to grow a culture of positive, constructive feedback in your online course. Feedback is an essential part of the learning experience.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Micro learning is a broad concept, but one of the most popular forms of micro learning involves the idea of micro content —mini courses that learners can take independently from a larger course. However you choose to use micro content in your course, exploring it as a teaching tool comes with several benefits.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 12, 2017

You spent a lot of time creating your blog posts, why not leverage that hard work to create your course? One of the best ways to determine if your course idea is worthwhile is to start a blog around that particular subject first. LearnDash started as a simple two-page blog.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2021

The big challenge with large-scale online courses (100+ participants) is to keep people engaged. Offering the course for free does not help either: the threshold for participants to register is very low, but equally low to give up. In this blog I motivate my experiences with the food system e-course. Not 100% but 54%!

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LearnDash

APRIL 14, 2020

Is your online course adaptable to learner needs? Flexible learning is naturally suited to e-learning and online courses. The point of an online course is to allow learners to go at their own pace and ensure they thoroughly understand the material in one module before moving on to the next. What is Flexible Learning?

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LearnDash

AUGUST 29, 2019

Interviewing experts in your online course subject is a great way to gain a following, and sell more products. Are you looking for a way to market your online course business but don’t want to write article after article? If possible, secure these resources, who may even inspire material for a follow-up course.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Once you’ve mastered the basics of content marketing, what more can you do to sell your course? When it comes to advice for selling online courses, content marketing is one of the first things you’re likely to hear about—and for good reason! For some educators, doing so may mean rethinking their course itself.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

I have a number of blogs I’m subscribed to. It may lead me to diagramming , or writing up something, frequently both (as here ). Writing is about creating a narrative around it. This can be in a design, or in writing something up. This is different than just writing, for me. It’s evolving, of course.

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