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Teach Learners to Use Job Aids

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Many eLearning courses walk learners through a detailed process flow within the course, and then the eLearning courses tell learners that a job aid with the same information is also available for reference later. The January/February issue of Scientific American Mind described the Google effect of how people learn. By Shelley A.

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Is your head in "the cloud"?

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My news and information aggregator is in the cloud. Reading the news at CNN.com is not reading news in the cloud but using the Google Reader RSS aggregator to read your blogs is in the cloud. The reason, Google Reader is storing information about your favorite blogs and performing a software service that was previously desktop-based.

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Make Learning Supportive and Available Everywhere

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There are a few things driving this, but primarily it's the speed at which we need (and are accustomed to receiving) information and also that smartphones and tablets, high bandwidth, and an explosion of blogs and other knowledge bases are putting that information right in our hands. approach, we're switching to 'hey, Google.'.

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Why Instructional Designers Should Be Familiar with Flash

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If you Google "Flash Tutorials" you'll find even more. You can also Google specific topics like "Create Buttons in Flash" and view how to create certain pieces. This type of information can be handy if you are considering how to approach something specific you are working with. You Google "Text Effects in Flash".

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Understanding Web 2.0

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Hint: it was not to exchange music and books for credit card information) It was created to help people share information. Actually it was created for physicists across the world to share information in an easy to read format. They shared this information through documents connected together through hyperlinks.

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Project Management for eLearning Professionals

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There are several other benefits to using Microsoft Project, including the ability to list out your project milestones in tasks and sub-tasks while easily assigning resources, due dates and other relevant information. You can use colored text and other formatting and formula tools to draw out certain milestones or information.

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Do Your eLearning Lessons Appeal to a Variety of Learning Styles?

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Learning styles have to do with how people perceive and process new information. While writing this post, I opted to google "learning styles," and the first result on the list took me to a page that describes sensory modalities (i.e., learning by observation and seeing information. Text, informative images, video demonstrations.