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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In preparation for my session, I asked Good To Great readers, the Twitter community and eLN event attendees to sum up their last compliance e-learning experience in three words. I then asked people to describe the compliance e-learning they want to see more of.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

If they’re not taking notice, they’re not really learning. If they’re not learning, they won’t action it back in the workplace. If people don’t take the learning on board and apply it, they’ll continue to make the same mistakes or miss the same opportunities. It needs to be engaging, relevant and effective.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me What characterises good e-learning? Unlike when I wrote for the Spicy Learning Blog , which was a team effort, this time it’s all down to me. What characterises good e-learning?

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MARCH 16, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← Have you done your good deed for the day? Click on the image above to link to the Breathing Earth website I love the idea of having a similar counter in an e-learning course to really make an impact.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

If you were following last week’s series of blog posts about refreshing and improving an old e-learning course in five days , there was a lot to take in. If you missed any posts last week, here’s where you need to go: Day 1: Learning outcomes and structure. So here is a quick recap of the key things we focused on.

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MARCH 3, 2011

But last night’s episode brilliantly illustrated three important lessons for workplace learning as well as education. They’ll remember the customer service course more favourably if they can learn by doing through simulations and feedback. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Thanks for visiting!

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MARCH 14, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← A panel podcast on compliance training Two great ideas for your next sustainability course → Have you done your good deed for the day?

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Today we’re going to make sure that your e-learning course will have a positive impact on the business. We’re going to do this by looking at the learning outcomes and making sure that the course content aligns with those learning outcomes and flows well. Review and improve the learning outcomes.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

← Good e-learning: engaging, relevant and effective Learning about learning → Like Be the first to like this post. I will also be beavering away on my dissertation as the deadline is looming. See you in a week! Share this: This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged dissertation. Bookmark the permalink.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

← 15 tips for energising your e-learning The bad reputation and rehabilitation of compliance training → Like Be the first to like this post. Saffron will not be the same without Hanif, but everything he did to create the Saffron family means that the things he worked so hard for will continue to grow and make him proud.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← How to write an award-winning submission Have you done your good deed for the day? Image: ?????Salvatore Bookmark the permalink.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

All this explains why one of the things most of us want our e-learning to be is ‘interactive’ In e-learning, as in life, interactions are more engaging and memorable than lectures. They help to break up content into learner-friendly chunks and they start to turn a passive learning experience into something more active.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This time a year ago I was named Instructional Designer of the Year 2010, and based on my experience I’d encourage everyone to put their best work forward for an award. This Thursday is the IT Training Awards evening, always a glamorous and enjoyable affair organised by the IITT. Improved confidence.

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MARCH 7, 2011

With the January launch of the E-Learning Awards , the IT Training Awards at the start of February, and the eLearning Network showcasing recent winners, award-winning e-learning is the order of the day. If you’ve not yet decided whether or not to enter this year, there are at least three good reasons why you should. Image: ?????

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APRIL 11, 2011

One of these is the enduring question of how to use text and audio within e-learning, which prompted some debate and some interesting experiment results. We also had to identify the other element that it is most compatible with (simultaneously, as opposed to sequentially throughout an e-learning course).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

James illustrated 10 examples of incremental innovation (or ‘butterfly moments’) in e-learning, which I think are well worth sharing. There’s no shame in emulating success and learning from the masters – if someone has a idea which has worked well, use that as a starting point. Re-invent the e-learning screen.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Last week I attended an LSG webinar given by James Cory-Wright from Brightwave on the topic of continuous design innovation. For some people it’s about technology, for others it’s about design, for others it’s a combination of both and for yet others it’s about something different altogether.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

Having QA-ed more e-learning courses than I care to remember, there are two key lessons that I’ve learnt. All of those text changes might well have had an impact on the layout and design, so you need to do a visual review to make sure text isn’t truncated, formatting is as it should be, headings are all in place and so on.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Aside from that, though, this letter stood out to me because of a particular piece of advice shared in it, which I think all e-learning designers (indeed, all writers!) Isn’t it lovely and quite remarkable that he replied to his fan mail in such a thoughtful and personal way? should be mindful of: In writing.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Aside from that, though, this letter stood out to me because of a particular piece of advice shared in it, which I think all e-learning designers (indeed, all writers!) Isn’t it lovely and quite remarkable that he replied to his fan mail in such a thoughtful and personal way? should be mindful of: In writing.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I’m horrendously behind with E-learning and Digital Cultures – I’ve not yet looked at the fourth week’s material, but I’m still hoping to get my ‘digital artifact’ in by tonight’s submission deadline. His suggestion is that it’s the lack of the ‘human’ in distance learning.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

There’s no shortage of information and advice out there about designing fantastic e-learning – and lots of it is very good advice. In preparation for the webinar, I asked my Twitter network to tell me what they’d change if they were in this situation of having to improve or refresh an e-learning course with limited resources.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Today we’re going to take a look at the interactions in your e-learning course. Map interactions against the key learning points. For me, it’s about making sure that your interactions are mapped against your key learning points. I’m not sure this is a good question for this learning point. Take a big picture view.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

But while I’m all for e-learning scripting to be approached more like a creative writing exercise (within reason), I tend to think that in many – if not most – cases, those plain and simple words we were trained out of as children are just right for the job. Image: sheelamohan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So, it’s over to you: What are the most common challenges or obstacles you encounter when storyboarding for e-learning? But, in the interest of delivering something relevant and useful, I want to find out what the people who’ll be attending would like to hear about.

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APRIL 26, 2011

What if we applied this to e-learning? And this in turn often depends on being able to alter somebody’s perspective; on being able to persuade them to look at something in a different way, from someone else’s point of view.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Yesterday we worked on where we could include some interactions in your e-learning course for maximum learning impact. If so, think about how you can expand on it to provide some additional learning and explain why something is the right answer. Take a close look at the feedback in your course.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Of course, like any patchwork, there’s no perfect design. If I can see there are far more telling interactions than testing ones, for example, I’ll make sure that the key learning point screens use testing interactions (I explained why this is preferable in my last post). Bookmark the permalink.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

I recently mentioned the importance of consistency , and then rediscovered this article about common consistency mistakes. As the article says, ‘the first line of defence against consistency errors is simply being aware of them’ So, be sure to check these 10 things before submitting your next document: Phrases in capitals.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

I recently mentioned the importance of consistency , and then rediscovered this article about common consistency mistakes.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Today we’re going to look at how we can bring your e-learning course to life and inject some personality into it. As always, rather than simply tell you what I think, first of all I’m going to share what my webinar participants said when I asked them: what small changes can you make to your existing e-learning course to bring it to life?

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