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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part II)

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We forget that unless we instruct our learners to do something (Bill likes web quests where students find meaningful examples to share with other students) they do not make the connection to what is important to themselves. Winfield calls this a "repeatable learning cycle."

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2017: The Year of User Interface Design

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For example, teachers may decide to have their students move their desks into a full circle in order to promote a full class discussion, or teachers may opt to have tables instead of individual desks in order to promote small group discussions. How intuitively can the learners navigate the course content?

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5 keys for Section 508 Compliance and Web Accessibility

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For example, military members are screened for a wide range of abilities. The Word, PDF, PowerPoint,mp3,wmv., For example, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has created specific accessibility checklists for PDF files , Word documents , Excel documents , PowerPoint documents , HTML files , and multimedia files.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. We think it’s likely that we’ll see a successful pilot integration of EHR data with an external LMS in the next three years. IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology.

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eLearning Predictions 2015

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For example, FedEx uses our CourseStage LMS to sell training to external sub-contractors through a specialized eCommerce-driven portal. That’s how we wind up with people conflating eLearning with the PowerPoint-style presentations instructional designers loathe.

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“The Medium is the Message”: An Instructional Design Perspective

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People want to take the PowerPoint presentations that their trainers use, dump them into a SCORM, and call it an online class. For example, PowerPoints do not leverage the advantages of using a cell phone or a tablet to access a mobile learning course because they were not intended to be used in that way.

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A showdown between quality eLearning and rapid development? #ASTD2014

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A few examples: Michael Allen, Julie Dirksen, and Clark Quinn presented their Serious eLearning Manifesto. In some circles, eLearning has become synonymous with the PowerPoint-style experience. It is the tendency to apply rapid development tools to every project that is a problem.