The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In this episode, you'll find out how to improve the quality of your eLearning. It's no fun when a client finds an error in your eLearning. Hadiya has two decades of experience in learning strategy, instructional design, elearning development, facilitation, storytelling and quality control and assurance.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 6, 2010

A reader named Michaela recently emailed to ask what an instructional designer does. There are lots of debates online regarding the value of instructional designers. Sure, instructional designers need to get unstuck, grow and shift things around. What is instructional design? Here’s mine.

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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. If you determine the purpose of the content, how it will be used, and the nature of the content itself, you can choose the most effective strategy to meet the needs of the audience.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In this episode, you'll find out how to improve the quality of your eLearning. It's no fun when a client finds an error in your eLearning. Hadiya has two decades of experience in learning strategy, instructional design, elearning development, facilitation, storytelling and quality control and assurance.

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The eLearning Coach

MAY 6, 2010

Instructional designers might be interfering with the learning process. Post from: The eLearning Coach Novice Versus Expert Design Strategies. Tags: DESIGN INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN expert learners expertise reversal effect novice learners novice to expert. Here's how.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Daw Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs. They offer insightful strategies and techniques for successfully managing issues with SMEs. WE DISCUSS: * Role of the SME in instructional design.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Whether you fell into instructional design by accident or purposefully sought out a career designing learning experiences, you’ll enjoy this conversation with Cammy Bean. Cammy is the author of The Accidental Instructional Designer and Vice President of Learning Design at Kineo.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

If you are intrigued by the future of learning design, you won’t want to miss the second half of this interview with Karl Kapp. Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? In case you missed the first half, see Games and Simulations.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s quite clear from research on the effects of emotion and learning, that an emotional connection can be generated through instructional strategies and creative treatments. Now let’s jump into some practical approaches to designing for the emotions. Design for social interaction. Acknowledge emotions.

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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. In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations. Here are some strategies for doing so.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

If we ran a contest for the favorite esoteric word of Instructional Designers, the term “chunking&# might win. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces (Oh, that’s the visual!) That’s a big challenge for a course designer. Chunking for eLearning.

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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. In the previous article, Reality eLearning , you can find some ways to get a sense of your audience’s workplace reality through interviews and observations. Here are some strategies for doing so.

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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? The most important thing is to make sure you’re using an instructional strategy that will lead to mastery of the instructional goal.

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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? The most important thing is to make sure you’re using an instructional strategy that will lead to mastery of the instructional goal.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

If you are familiar with principles of graphic design you know that white space, also known as negative space, is an important part of layout. In his book Design Elements , Timothy Samara states, “Space calls attention to content, separates it from unrelated content around it, and gives the eyes a resting place.&#.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

If you are familiar with principles of graphic design you know that white space, also known as negative space, is an important part of layout. In his book Design Elements , Timothy Samara states, “Space calls attention to content, separates it from unrelated content around it, and gives the eyes a resting place.&#.

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The eLearning Coach

JUNE 26, 2009

One type of learning objective is for internal use—the design team, client and subject matter expert. If designers would write different learning objectives for each category, the world would be a better place. This is because internal learning objectives tend to be too technical and non-motivating for your eLearning audience.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 21, 2011

In an ongoing exploration of how to design and develop for mobile learning, I plan to examine many of the products and design paradigms in the mLearning space. COACH: What are some common mistakes instructional designers make when creating their first mobile learning/performance support applications?

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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 Best Features. The instructors are knowledgeable.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 6, 2009

In case you were asleep, the previous two articles in this series discussed how to write learning objectives for your internal eLearning team. Now let’s see how to write learning objectives for your eLearning audience that are so much fun the learners will react as in the photo shown here. Post from: The eLearning Coach. ©

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 28, 2010

Perhaps it hits you when you’re writing a storyboard to teach a poorly designed and uninspiring software program. But what about motivating instructional designers? When I was studying Instructional Design, a college professor once told the class that we were the learner’s advocates.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

That puts designers and developers of learning products in a tough position. Here are some strategies you can use to motivate adult learners, based on their characteristics. Related to the strategy above, try to concentrate on workplace (or real life) performance, rather than on extraneous facts and theories. Provide options.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

That puts designers and developers of learning products in a tough position. Here are some strategies you can use to motivate adult learners, based on their characteristics. Related to the strategy above, try to concentrate on workplace (or real life) performance, rather than on extraneous facts and theories. Provide options.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The challenge for designers is to create learning experiences that are sufficiently meaningful and engaging that they elicit positive reactions from learners. The final article in this series will present practical ways to design for the emotions. Have you had success with emotional design? Share your stories. Tweet This!

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 8, 2010

But like any devout eLearning practitioner, I just pretended I knew what I was doing and got on with things. If you are a designer and writer, this is a great opportunity to learn the craft of script writing. Instructional Crew. If the director and instructional designer are the same person, you’ve got it covered.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

As designers and developers, one of our purposes in life is to help novices in a particular skill or content area gain new levels of competency. Because the mental structures of a novice differ from those of the expert, instructional strategies should be quite different for the novice than for the expert. Designing For Experts.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

People who create eLearning get involved in many types of content development tasks. Assuming that you’ve sufficiently wrapped your mind around the content, use the list below to find the most effective strategy for organizing it. Post from: The eLearning Coach Content Organization Cheat Sheet. Simple to Complex.

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