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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

B Online Learning

This blog post covers a recent online conversation I had with an attendee at one of our eLearning Design Essentials workshops. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information. One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’.

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Professional Organizations for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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What is Learning Experience Design?

eLearningMind

UX designers are the rock stars of the design world: they’re the folks who worry about user experience on everything from phone apps to toasters to your car’s coffee cup holders. In the corporate world, LxDs, or Learning Experience Designers, are the rock stars in the eLearning space. What is Learning Experience Design (LxD)?

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Informal Learning For Beginners: Are You Ready To Engage Your Telecommuting Teams?

eLearning Industry

What is informal learning and how can it benefit your geographically dispersed staffers? This article covers the basics, benefits, and key characteristics. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why Most eLearning Fails: How to Create eLearning that Gets Results

Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, and Creator of The eLearning Designer's Academy

The sad reality is that most eLearning courses require learners to sit through a disappointing experience, where information is poorly organized, the content isn’t relevant, and the interactions seem contrived and without purpose. we will also explore how bad eLearning design can negatively affect the learning experience.

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MANAGING INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Learnnovators

The common wisdom amongst instructional designers is to avoid creating an information overload. It’s far worse when we turn that folksy wisdom on ourselves and cap our professional development by avoiding information overloads ourselves! If there’s a ton of information, which details are significant and how are they significant?

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7 Ways To Integrate Social Polls In Your eLearning Course Design

eLearning Industry

Social polls inform learners and designers alike. Are you helping your learners compare and collaborate with their peers? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Best Ways to Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

Claris Connect automates the import of student information system (SIS) data and creates Managed Apple IDs at scale, giving students and teachers access to necessary technology and tools. Educator-designed Jamf technology solutions. Jamf provides device setup, low touch/no-touch deployments, and helps manage workflows.

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Blended Learning: Deliver Employee Trainings That Pack a Punch

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at LearningToGo | Hartmut Hahn, CEO & Co-Founder at Userlane

While there are many options for training your employees, people learn and retain information differently, so what works well for one group may be ineffective for another. Most importantly, organizations can design hyper-personalized training types that are engaging, useful, and informative.

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The Recruiting Crossword Puzzle

On top of ever-increasing advancements on the technology front (hello, artificial intelligence), try adding record-low unemployment and candidates’ virtual omnipresence and you’ve got yourself a pretty passive, well-informed, and crowded recruiting landscape. The good news?

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.

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Digital Learning Tips and Tricks from Neuroscience

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo

Does digital media work differently in the brain than information coming in from "the real world?" What does neuroscience tell us about digital learning - and what does that mean for the way you design and deliver learning experiences? How the regular use of social media as an information source impacts the brain.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones? Keeps the consumer of information at the forefront of the UX. The good news is that technology has come a long way since Y2K, and there is much we've learned about UX/UI and how adults like to learn.

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Mission Critical: Leveraging Learning Engineering to Drive Digital Transformation

Speaker: Trish Uhl, Founder of Owl's Ledge LLC and the Talent & Learning Analytics Leadership Forum

She'll show you how to start leveraging Learning Engineering, a multidisciplinary approach that combines modern technology, data analytics, decision science, learning sciences and change management with human-centered engineering design methodologies to ultimately deliver targeted learning outcomes and business results that keep pace with the business (..)

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.