Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The worst presentations you can attend are those where the presenter reads out his PowerPoint to you without adding anything to it. The root of the problem is of course the lack of presenting skills from the presenter, but PowerPoint doesn’t really help. If you are not familiar with Prezi you should take a look at some examples.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 27, 2019

Subject matter experts often start with what we call a “PowerPoint mindset”; they are focussed on transferring the information as if they are creating a PowerPoint presentation. Moving away from a PowerPoint mindset. The main problem with the “PowerPoint mindset” is the focus on content.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many new eLearning authors create eLearning with a presentation (PowerPoint) mindset. The problem is that you will get content heavy “PowerPoint like” courses that are not engaging or effective. Start your course with the story and come back to it later as an example. This is the wrong way. A problem or conflict.

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Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 17, 2014

You will find that creating an effective course is very different from creating for example a PowerPoint presentation, but it is not that difficult. It offers support in the form of free webinars en Q&A meetings and it has an e-Learning course on how to create effective e-Learning. Host the course.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Experience learns that most subject matter experts start with a Powerpoint mindset. I will give some examples. For example: When an author does not define a learning objective; we can alert him to that and explain why it is important and help him in making one. Instructional design and quality? Didactical structure.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2015

An eLearning course is very different from a (PowerPoint) presentation. Here is an example of the result of the tool: 3. Many people who start creating eLearning for the first time start with a presentation in mind, and that is the wrong way to start. Here is how you should do it. Have a clear goal. Do things in the right order.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Another example is the Elearninglearning the site of Tony Karrer. In stead you end up with a powerpoint like course that reports based on page progress. Instead of looking things up with google you plugin to the knowledge of somebody who is an acknowledged specialist in his field. Jay does this on workingsmarterdaily.com.

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