Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 29, 2015

I’m currently working on an eLearning module intended to support an organizational culture change initiative. To be clear, the eLearning module isn’t viewed as the primary catalyst for the change; rather, it is one of many components supporting the larger initiative. Have you created eLearning to support a culture change initiative?

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 20, 2014

I’ve heard learners criticize eLearning lessons that have too much “extra” stuff at the beginning. Next time you create an eLearning lesson, consider placing meaningful content immediately after (or maybe even before) the title slide. ARCS Attention Best Practices eLearning eLearning Blog Instructional Design'

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 15, 2012

Unfortunately, many eLearning development tools don’t have strong spacing options, and it’s usually up to the developer to work within the confines of the tool to ensure a reasonable amount of space is used. All the more reason to keep eLearning readable. Line & paragraph length. Line height (distance between lines of text).

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 18, 2014

This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company. Best Practices Brainstorming eLearning eLearning Blog Instructional Design Scenario-Based Learning Storyboarding Workplace Learning' How does it compare to your approach? ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2011

In other words, when taking an eLearning course, learners are most likely to remember how the course ended, although the stuff in the middle might blur together. How can we apply this principle to improve eLearning effectiveness? Ensure that the last moments of an eLearning course reinforce key content. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 27, 2012

Am I doing those things right when I design an eLearning lesson? This flexibility can work well with scenario-based eLearning. Why not make eLearning read more conversationally? Of course, eLearning can take advantage of icons in the same way. But that's the point of a lot of books, and not all of them do it well.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 4, 2011

So how can we convey tacit knowledge in eLearning? So, back to our original question: How can we convey tacit knowledge in eLearning? You can include stories in eLearning via text, audio , and/or video. And do you have certain methods you use to convey these implicit concepts, especially in an eLearning environment?

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 15, 2013

So how can we leverage this natural way of learning in eLearning lessons? I recently saw this in an eLearning lesson a colleague created. Suppose an eLearning lesson teaches sales skills, and a scenario-based question challenges learners to present a product’s benefits to a customer. Nudge learners to assess their responses.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 3, 2011

He told me about some of the advice he found on the web about coaching, and I realized that much of what he learned can be applied to coaching in eLearning as well. In many eLearning lessons, a box appears that says something like, “Incorrect. Below are a few of the coaching nuggets he shared with me and how I apply them to eLearning.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Several posts on this blog offer advice for engaging learners through compelling eLearning design (e.g., So let’s flex these muscles in ways that go beyond eLearning. Several instructional design theorists remind us of the importance of supporting learners after they complete an eLearning course (e.g.,

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 16, 2011

I recently completed an eLearning course (as a learner, not as an instructional designer) on project management. Although I had never designed an eLearning course to include full audio narration, the experience reinforced that I probably shouldn’t go down that path in the future. When do you use audio in eLearning? By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 2, 2013

The posts from this blog in 2012 offered advice for trying out new eLearning authoring tools and other technologies as well as advice for trying out various instructional approaches. If you're interested in trying something new with your eLearning projects this year, take a look at how the past year of posts from this blog might help.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Based on the number of hits the various posts on our eLearning blog received, there were three particularly hot topics for the year. How do these compare with your own eLearning hot topics from 2011? --1-- It also suggests some additional uses and benefits of creating a storyboard prior to eLearning development.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 31, 2010

In listing the benefits of eLearning, training folks often cite its flexibility – it’s available on-demand, allows learners to progress at their own pace, is easily deployed to a geographically dispersed audience, etc. eLearning’s flexibility can be especially handy when it’s included as part of a blended learning approach.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I was part of a team last year that worked on a large eLearning course, which consisted of several hours of eLearning lessons that learners completed over a four-week period. Below are some ideas for providing this type of support in eLearning. By Shelley A. Expectations. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

For anyone who’s in the midst of designing an eLearning course, have you figured out how you’re going to evaluate its success? Consider questions like: - How easy was the eLearning course and its activities to use? Did your eLearning course include quizzes or knowledge checks that you can pull results for? By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

If it were easy, we wouldn’t have so much eLearning with the page-turner design. This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , specializing in rapid eLearning design and development projects. Easier said than done, right? So how do we do better? Additional brainstorming tips are welcome too.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 30, 2012

Has schema theory helped inform the way you design eLearning? This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company. If so, please share your two cents. If you’d like to learn a little more about it, check out the resources below. Emmott, C., & & Alexander, M.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Why stimulate prior knowledge toward the beginning of an eLearning lesson? So what can we do to stimulate recall of prior knowledge in an eLearning lesson? --1-- Admittedly, this technique may be challenging within an eLearning lesson, but it could be facilitated in the instructor-led portion of a blended training approach.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 23, 2011

When writing feedback for eLearning activities, we can do more than tell learners whether their response was correct or incorrect. eLearning lessons teaching computer systems often include knowledge check questions that ask learners to identify which button they must click to start a particular workflow. Can you refund that to my card?”

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

And there are many ways to incorporate stories and scenarios into eLearning. Before meeting with the client, I created a storyboard of the eLearning lesson to lay out the intended structure of the scenario. This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Should debriefing occur in eLearning? Many eLearning lessons follow an activity with a few knowledge check questions that quiz learners on content; however, they lack questions that debrief an experience by prompting reflection. How can we include debriefing experiences in eLearning? How do you design debriefs in eLearning?

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 25, 2010

So what does this mean for eLearning? In both instances, my colleagues found literature that described what eLearning should look like for older learners. In both instances, my colleagues found literature that described what eLearning should look like for older learners. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 26, 2011

For eLearning, it shifts our paradigm from a course being a learning “event” to creating an entire learning environment in which the eLearning course is only a piece of the learning. Traditional classroom and eLearning environments come from this thinking. Traditional classroom and eLearning environments come from this thinking.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Because of that, several posts on this blog explore how storytelling benefits learning and how to design stories into eLearning. And since it seems that many of you share that interest, I wanted to let you know that I was recently invited to write an article on the topic for eLearn Magazine. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 6, 2010

How can we use stories in eLearning? The Integrated Learnings: eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services. Tags: Instructional Design Discovery Learning Moments of Learning Need Storytelling eLearning. present content in context, and increase learning retention. Here are a few ideas that come to my mind.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 11, 2010

Though eLearning isn’t new to the training field anymore, it’s still relatively new to many organizations. And once those organizations buy into the benefits of eLearning, many are tempted to run and dive into the deep end of the pool as quickly as possible. Requests to convert existing instructor-led training (ILT) to eLearning.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 11, 2012

I recently joined a project that involves designing a series of eLearning games to teach sales skills. But if you’ve dabbled in learning games in eLearning, please share your experience! This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 1, 2011

But for eLearning situations that are truly self-paced, that may be difficult to achieve. Complex (and relevant) scenarios in a problem-based eLearning lesson may accomplish this. This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2010

Regardless of the extent of your background in instructional design, I think just about everyone can agree that capturing learners’ attention at the start of an eLearning course (and engaging interest throughout) is critical. The Integrated Learnings: eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 27, 2011

But what about eLearning? Can we use eLearning to teach some of these soft skills that are required by leadership in a corporate environment? I would argue that we can, provided the eLearning has some elements to make it a successful interaction. They should have “real world” application, rather than just remembering facts.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 12, 2011

Think about the elements you included in your last eLearning project. If you had to offer business justification for each slide and activity in your eLearning lesson to your client, could you consistently make a compelling case? Word searches, crossword puzzles, hang man – I see these games in eLearning from time to time.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 9, 2010

After weeks – perhaps months – of analysis, design, and development, you finally have a completed and fully functional eLearning course. What questions should your pilot evaluation effort answer about your eLearning course? Examples of questions might include: Was the eLearning course and its activities easy to use?

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Considering a quick example, suppose that a sales team is scheduled to complete an eLearning course on sales skills in June. This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company. Your initial performance trend line predicted that sales in July would be $20M.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 15, 2010

Both models provide sound structure for developing effective eLearning. This post mimics the earlier one about Gagne’s nine events of instruction by first defining the parts of Merrill’s model, and then applying it to a short eLearning lesson. Which model do you think about when designing an eLearning lesson? Another one?

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2011

Audience questions are basic for the eLearning designer, but also consider additional usability-focused questions such as: What constraints will users have when using the document? This eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services , an eLearning design & development company. Why do they use certain documents?

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 11, 2011

If the purpose of an eLearning course was to meet a specific business need – something that would increase revenue, save money, or protect the organization from risk – it makes sense that a learner’s manager would be accountable for goal-setting and coaching for new skills after training is complete. Why doesn’t it happen?

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