Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

What are the prominent professional organizations for instructional designers? Professional Organizations. A number of job seekers have asked about professional organizations to help people gain skills and network. A number of job seekers have asked about professional organizations to help people gain skills and network.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Live blogged notes from Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations with Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern. Official description: Thomson Reuters meets the challenge of supporting the learning and development of its employees across the world through the innovative use of technology and a strategy based on the 70:20:10 model.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Specifically, she wanted to know how I get from content like a SME “brain dump” to a finalized storyboard that’s ready for elearning development. She wanted to know, if you get something from a SME that is good content, but not organized, how do you figure out what goes where? I’m more focused on the activities.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2024

A high quality product with a large scope will cost more and take more time to develop. Some organizations tend to prioritize one factor over the others, but it’s always a balance. Part of the TLDC Women in Learning & Development online conference, March 25-29. Morning Buzz: Designing and Developing Scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

.” A good fit means doing work you find satisfying, in an organization or with clients that value your contributions. This is pretty common in instructional design and elearning roles, especially in smaller organizations. Elearning development specialists seem to have an easier time finding work, especially as freelancers.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This post includes links on AI image and video tools and tips, pricing elearning and ILT development, and how to grab the attention of learners. For example, include in the prompt “a sign that says “Elearning Development,” and that exact text will appear in your image. I share these links periodically here on my blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This post includes links on scenario-based learning (SBL) research, working with Twine, learning experience design (LXD), 360 images, VR resources, and elearning development time calculators. Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer – Apple Support. eLearning development calculators. Feedback and reflection in SBL.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 5, 2022

Catherine Lombardozzi’s curated resources on a number of topics: blended learning, learning environments, creativity, scaffolding, instructional design skill development, design thinking, and more. Most for-profit organizations cannot accept volunteer, unpaid labor without running afoul of the FLSA. Scenarios and games.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 9, 2009

These are my notes from the webinar on the Sakai 3 development process by Michael Korcuska about Sakai 3 Participation. This is about the changes coming for Sakai and what needs to be done in the community right now to move development forward. Simpler development environment. Can be tagged by the system, organization, or user.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

He then sets out ways in which these principles can be systematically used to inform the design and development of learning activities, (both online and in a face-to-face context). This isn’t tagging per se, but a way to connect ideas and keep a large amount of notes organized over time. Instructional design job listings.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2019

” They want a long explanation of the history of changes to a regulation, or the biography of the person who developed the theory, or descriptions of a bunch of rare situations that are outside of the scope of the current project. Develop ways to practice skills that require training. Seductive Details.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

These are organizations who are used to having instructors work virtually, so they have the infrastructure in place already. On the corporate side, companies that specialize in creating elearning for other organizations frequently hire remote instructional designers and elearning developers. Higher education.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 11, 2021

While Nick’s team does a lot of custom HTML5 development, I wonder if that would be possible with some of the authoring tools by editing the js file. The What, Why and How of Adaptive Learning in Workforce Development. It’s important to prioritize your ends and what makes sense in your organization.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

eLearning Magic Toolkit – The Must-Have WordPress Plugin For Storyline Developers! I’ve used this basic process (especially the “discount usability testing version”), or some adapted version of it, in several organizations. This is more like an AI chatbot rather than a programmatic chatbot.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In this session, I reviewed data from multiple sources on pay in the learning and development field, for employees and freelancers. While organizations also bear responsibility for closing the gender pay gap, we as individuals can make a difference by knowing what we’re worth.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

AI Writing and content generation Writer : Built for marketing and content development, but they’re working on tools for L&D. Apps require permissions though, so they may not work in every organization. All (or nearly all) of these tools have a free trial so you can test them out before paying. A few tools are fully free.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2014

Categories are foundations, teaching online, course development, and the future (including references to the Serious e-Learning Manifesto). Overview of what roles need to be filled to develop e-learning. Extensive list of sources for free images, many of which are Creative Commons or public domain. tags: images free creativecommons.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But in scenario-based e-learning a series of simulated work challenges can be organized from simple to complex, thus assuring a smoother learning curve. Technology can facilitate scenario-based elearning development (authoring tools can make it easier than in the past). Ruth Clark in Scenario-Based e-Learning , pp.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 4, 2014

Every organization also has its own lingo. ” Like any big organization, Cisco uses hundreds of acronyms, and the same acronym in one group can have a different meaning in another team. .” I’ve seen people argue that IDs should have content expertise in the fields where they develop courses.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 6, 2023

Even if the tool is great, I think that’s would be a hard sell for most organizations. The pricing is $4/user/month–which seems really high to me, considering that’s more than some full-blown LMSs that can host hundreds of courses. They have a minimum of 50 users, which means the minimum cost is $200/month.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Over the years as technology has developed, especially in the production realm, it’s become more and more difficult to adequately bring volunteers up to speed. TL;DR Volunteers need to be trained and I’m the technical guy so they’re all looking to me to organize the process. sosaudio at [link]. Backwards Design.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

While that’s related to the development side of elearning, it doesn’t give you enough of a background in the instructional design side without getting some formal training. The exception would be if you’re not doing any writing or planning yourself, and you are only teaching things other people have developed.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Being able to drag and drop the passages to organize particular parts of the branching makes it much easier to see what’s happening. If the branching is significant, or the scenario is long, I can build the initial prototype in maybe half the time it would take in Storyline.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 23, 2019

Knowing how to work with content experts and guide them through the course development process is crucial. Every organization has different expectations for how IDs and SMEs work together, but this is often a close collaborative relationship. If you hate having someone else act as the expert, you probably won’t enjoy being an ID.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

So though I know it’s impossible to generalize, are you able to speak to what kind of value there is placed on creativity as a designer, both in higher education, and in working with companies or organizations? I’ve found companies and organizations that are really interested in doing innovative things with training. New Trends.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 27, 2015

Because I have done so much live blogging, I was able to provide proof of my ongoing professional development efforts. Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations. Sakai 3 Development Process. These posts go back to 2007, so some of the content and references are dated. Generally newer posts are at the top of each category.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2019

For example, the Instructional Designer or eLearning Developer demo in my portfolio is based on an activity I originally created for a health care client. They’re OK if you’re exclusively a developer and don’t want to do any instructional design work. To me, those feel too fake. Other Sources of Ideas. More Resources.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Organizing content. In addition to the writing tone, how we organize content can be informed by research. In her book Write and Organize for Deeper Learning , Patti Shank lists several tactics that help us organize training content. Development. There’s research to support that idea. Visual design.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 14, 2016

For example, the Instructional Designer or eLearning Developer demo in my portfolio is based on an activity I originally created for a health care client. Create folders to organize Outlook. Any cool trick you know in Captivate, Storyline, or the eLearning development tool of your choice (this also shows your expertise with the tool).

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I’d rather show an aspiration of diversity, even if organizations haven’t reached that goal of diverse representation in real life yet. An informal poll in a LinkedIn group showed that most IDs and eLearning developers are already trying to represent diversity in race in the images in their courses. Names have power.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book is organized to clearly follow the process of creating a training program from start to finish: Basics of Design (including ADDIE and adult learning principles). Organizing Content. Developing Materials. .” I know some more experienced instructional designers who might do well to follow that last bit of advice.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 7, 2019

You also spend a lot of time that isn’t billable (proposals, marketing, professional development, etc.). Design tasks are $50-100 on his chart; development tasks are $30-60 (I would update this to at least $40-65). I help organizations who need online learning that gets results and changes behavior. Want more info?

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Some organizations will get seduced by that. It’s just like how some organizations have opted to offshore work and then been disappointed in the results. Robyn Defelice is working on updating the ATD research on how long it takes to develop training. Most organizations are just dipping their toes into AI.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Changing contexts mean organizations need to be more able to change. Right now we’re just getting a basic picture of how people interact in an organization. System can be changing faster than training can be developed. Dag: Which movie to see -> your network; When does the movie start -> google. honest signals.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2009

I’m also organizing my list into tools for personal learning and for developing courses. Developing Courses. It’s definitely a primary tool for developing learning in our process. Wikispaces is where we house all of our documentation of course development processes. Personal Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 4, 2011

Realistically, most of us don’t have the kind of resources to do full game development. Example: Stock room organizing training for a shoe store. Q: Where the games developed in Flash? There’s no real way to get better at Jeopardy other than studying; studying isn’t a game activity. Task-oriented.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These alternatives use some elements of branching scenarios but are simpler to design and develop. Instructional design needs to evolve as s new technologies and approaches emerge, organizations’ goals for success shift, and views on what role L&D should have in supporting learning and performance support fluctuate.

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