Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Here’s a template I created for a recent workshop on how to create an exploratory learning interaction. I used a flat UI design for the learning interaction. Since it uses a similar style to this previous template , the two learning interactions can be combined. Example of the Learning Interaction.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 20, 2017

At a recent workshop, we reviewed some of the essentials of interactive e-learning. Basic Course Design. We discussed this in the post on what every new instructional designer should know. This last point is where we consider how the user interacts in the course. Objectives for Interactive E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2023

At the corporate level, many teams possess authoring tools and instructional design expertise. However, they may lack the experience or resources required for media, learning experience, and visual design. Vendors are generally better equipped to support the entire development process from design to implementation.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The alignment ensures that each facet of your instructional design converges toward the overarching goal of fostering comprehensive understanding. Adaptability and Differentiation Flexibility within instructional plans is a cornerstone of effective teaching.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I like this GUI and use it in one of my workshops where we learn to work with variables. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. License: free for commercial use.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A great way to learn to use the elearning software you have is to create small interactions. A recent challenge was to create a note card interaction. I happened to be working on a note card interaction for a workshop and submitted it to the challenge above. Download file for the free flip card interaction.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 20, 2021

We discuss this often in the community and present weekly challenges to instigate thinking about interactive content in different ways. ” Apparently, only highly trained instructional designers can build good e-learning. And they weren’t created by ignorant people; they were created by instructional designers.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

On past projects, many of my customers would ask for interactive elearning courses. When I asked them how they defined interactive elearning courses they’d usually list things like fancy mouseovers, drag-and-drop interactions, and a host of other ways to interact with the screen. Instead, it’s all about pulling them in.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

At a recent workshop I showed the difference between creating interactive elearning in PowerPoint and Storyline. For the workshop I created a few different templates. One of them was a tabs interaction. Free Interactive Tabs Template. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2016

Today I’d like to share a really neat example of an interactive video scenario. View the Interactive Video Example. Click here to view the video interaction. What I Like About This Interactive Video. They did a great job showing how Storyline can be used to create interactive scenarios that use video.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 19, 2016

Creating great interactive learning experiences requires a few core building blocks: relevant content, pull versus push, and real-world decisions. Learning Interactions: What is the Learner’s Real World Like? They need to see how the content fits into their world, the interactions they have, and the decisions they need to make.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 21, 2015

Here’s a free PowerPoint template I built for a recent workshop. I used it to show how to create interactive conversations in PowerPoint using hyperlinks. This free template could be used as a way to share manager/employee information or perhaps as an FAQ interaction. I mocked up a FAQ interaction on copyright laws.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 12, 2016

After last week’s post on the different drag & drop interaction examples , I had quite a few emails asking for tips on how to create drag and drop interactions for elearning. So now’s a good time to review some good general tips for building drag and drop interactions. Drag and Drop Interactions Tips.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 9, 2019

Many of us are challenged to convert our linear content into something more interactive and engaging. I was digging through some old workshop files and stumbled upon one I built a while back but never ended up sharing it outside of the workshop. In the workshop activity, the objective was to not build completely from scratch.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Here’s a free elearning template I created for a recent workshop. The free template includes three interactions: two timelines and one process interaction. Timeline Interaction 1. The first timeline interaction features segments with dots that represent events. Timeline Interaction 2.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2016

Rapid E-Learning Makes Interactive Video Easy. When I looked at what he was doing, I asked why he didn’t just use Engage’s media interaction since it was easy enough to insert the video and required no programming. Click here to see an example of an Engage interaction with video. Interactive Video: Click & Quiz.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 23, 2013

Our belief : At Vignettes Learning we use stories in eLearning; however, we make them interactive. Learning has evolved into elearning and books have been transformed into eBooks. In January 2013, Ann Mangen of the University of Stavanger in Norway conducted a comparative study between readers using eBooks and physical books.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 14, 2014

How do you define interactive elearning? It’s a question I ask clients when they tell me they want an interactive elearning course. Usually they define interactive elearning with what we normally consider the “bells and whistles.” Sometimes we laugh those off as superfluous or unnecessary interactions.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 12, 2019

Between the blog posts, community interactions, workshops, and webinars one of the most frequently asked questions is how to get started with e-learning or become a better e-learning developer. You can find previous posts and a really cool interaction below. You can find previous posts and a really cool interaction below.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Between the workshops I run, blog emails received, and helping in the community, I get to see hundreds of e-learning courses. Many course developers focus on making the content interactive, which is good. But much of the interactivity is novel or exists at a very basic level. Interactive E-Learning 101. “What If?”

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used the free image to create an interactive course prototype for an upcoming workshop activity. How to Create an Interactive Course Using a Single Image. If you had access to a graphics designer you could create anything you want. It’s a simple way to create an exploratory interactive course.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Convert bullet points to interactive content. Instead of showing screen after screen of bullet points, why not convert them to micro interactions? For example, three bullet points could be three interactive tabs. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I’ve been working on interactive scenarios for a few upcoming workshops and created some background images that we’ll use to build interactive branched scenarios. This way you can have one starter file for those interactive scenarios and then dynamically select the layout when creating new slides.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 19, 2019

Building e-learning courses is usually a matter of pulling together the appropriate content, visuals, and some level of interactivity. Most courses I see are linear with some simple interactions like tabs and labeled graphics. Also, be sure to check out our upcoming e-learning workshops below. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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learnWorlds

MARCH 2, 2023

We have gathered 18 use cases from successful professionals using our platform and enriched them with our own instructional design expertise to create templates you can use to set up your course. This way, you’ll at the same time get some beta testers who will interact with the course and give you valuable feedback. ?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

E-Learning Tip: Simulate Right-Click Interactions on Mobile Devices. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. E-Learning Workshop : workshop covers general e-learning topics and not tool-specific. Digital Learning Tour : workshop will be in English.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I was building a demo for a workshop and needed a few safety training images. Here’s the safety training demo I created for the workshop. E-Learning Jobs: Training, elearning, and instructional design jobs. Interactive Sliders in E-Learning (Recap #52). Upcoming Events & Workshops. Sign up here.

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Hurix Digital

MARCH 7, 2023

E-learning platforms are online tools allowing learners to access educational resources and interact with instructors and peers over the internet. These platforms are designed to provide a virtual classroom experience that is similar to the traditional face-to-face classroom setting but with added flexibility and convenience.

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Making Change

JANUARY 8, 2014

I do a lot of online workshops, such as the scenario design course that starts soon. Adding “interactivity” by using polls to vote on non-questions, such as “How many people here have seen a boring PowerPoint presentation?” Get your free 23-page ebook: Training Designer''s Guide to Saving the World.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Here’s one on game show style templates and another on various drag-and-drop interactions. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. My workshop day will be in English. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Building Compelling Interactions: What You Need to Know. Essential Guide to Visual Design. 6 Best Practices for Designing Accessible E-Learning. Free Flip Card Interaction. Free E-Learning Template: Timeline & Process Interaction. If you'd like to see one of our workshops in your area just let me know.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 5, 2016

This week I’d like to feature a number of drag and drop interactions that people in the community have created over the past couple of years. Design a Workspace. Here are two challenges that featured some drag and drop interactions. Challenge #16: Custom Drag and Drop Interactions. Drag and Drop Examples.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 23, 2019

The nice thing about today’s e-learning tools like Storyline and Rise is that you can quickly prototype your courses and build interactive learning experiences. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. I like to use Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I discuss relevant content quite a bit throughout the blog and make it one of the key building blocks for interactive elearning. There’s a visual context that works for your course as well as a way to create novel and engaging interactions. Engage Learners with Interactive Content. Engage Learners with Free Navigation.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

This requires that I have to click through every screen, interaction, and quiz before I can get to specific places for review. Instead of going through an entire interaction (or course) to see if the variables are working properly, create access to a variables dashboard. Create Quick Access to Variables. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I created a couple of simple quiz templates to use in a workshop and thought I’d share them here as well. If you want to edit the interactive part you need to do so at the slide master level. This is a good example of leveraging the slide master to make your interactive slides easier to manage and edit. Want to learn more?

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WhatFix

MAY 11, 2023

2023) How to Build a Corporate Learning & Development (L&D) Strategy Get the eBook now! New eBook 14 Types of Employee Training Programs in 2023 Businesses conduct different types of employee training programs depending on the size, requirements, and activities of an organization. Follow up after training sessions.

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