Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

I use it regularly for screen sharing to help with reviews and to guide calls. Zoom is also one of the main tools that helps me learn from colleagues. We spend an hour asking questions and helping each other out. Writing helps me connect ideas and clarifies my understanding. This is my primary personal learning network.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Proofing formats in Twine Proofing formats in Twine are designed to provide functionality to help with reviews. Several people who helped me test this were initially confused by this. However, it might be helpful to have a passage name visible on screen during reviews so the screenshots have a clear label.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In fact, I don’t even find it particularly helpful to try to write branching scenarios collaboratively. They usually have full-time jobs or responsibilities, and they’re helping you as a side project. Record the interview Rather than taking notes during the interview, you may find it helpful to record the interview.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sharing my expertise helps prospective clients find me, plus it means they already trust me before we even meet. Partly, that’s because I enjoy helping other people, as I think many of us in the Learning and Development field do. Image generated with Playground.ai. Overall, I spend a lot of unbillable time sharing with others.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 19, 2024

Note that Hadiya isn’t talking about the “hero’s journey” or some other overarching classic structure here (which I often find more problematic than helpful for scenario-based learning, especially branching scenarios). Help me test & refine my Chat-GPT ‘Branching Scenario Builder’ prompt!

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

That information can help users connect what they learned with the choices they made. This can be helpful, especially if the branching scenario is part of a larger training program that teaches an overall process or general principles. Questions about writing branching scenarios? I may answer it in a future blog post.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SMEs who are accustomed to working on traditional elearning may be uncomfortable or unsure how to help you write scenarios. Mistakes help you identify the decision points in your scenario and the consequences following those choices. An early prototype helps catch major problems before you build the entire scenario. Your Tricks?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 2, 2024

Scenario-based learning is one way to provide that practice with feedback to help learners improve their performance. While no solution is right for every training situation, we know that providing opportunities for practice with feedback is critical for developing skills.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 14, 2023

Growth mindset Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Developing a Growth Mindset Help Students Learn? Daniel Willingham Willingham also suggests that growth mindset research can help educators talk to students about challenges and setbacks. I created some training on growth mindset for one of my clients several years ago.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Besides talking to the SMEs, it’s also helpful if you can talk to actual users (or people who have learned this skill recently). Another good question: “What are the most common issues reported to the help desk?” I do find it helpful to keep a list of questions handy, but the actual process is more fluid.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It also helped me identify the weaknesses in this approach. Instead of using ChatGPT to write an entire branching scenario, I will likely use it in the future to help with writing scenarios. Using generative AI tools for brainstorming story ideas is genuinely helpful.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2021

That has been especially helpful as a mom. Clients mostly aren’t interested in paying me to review metrics and adjust after training launches, so I frequently don’t see the impact of what I help create. Helping and coaching others is rewarding. Flexibility. What I Have Learned. I love working for myself.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

But, I want to try something new and see if it’s helpful for people to shadow my work. My session is part of the new Instructional Design Summit , a curated set of 25 sessions to help people level up their instructional design skills. You can ask me questions, and I’ll answer as many as I can during the hour call. Interested?

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using AI tools can help generate ideas and alternative choices for branching scenarios, but human oversight and editing are necessary. When designing branching scenarios, it’s important to focus on specific behaviors and provide realistic feedback. Watch the MAGICademy podcast interview You can listen to the podcast here.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2022

Val’s background and career journey is quite different from mine, so I think it was helpful to have our different perspectives. Are there any skills gained during your time as a teacher that helped you venture into LD? The UC-Irvine Division of Continuing Education hosted the webinar.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 11, 2022

This course includes opportunities to learn by doing, plus presentations, resources, and feedback to help you create a branching scenario from start to finish. This course will be helpful since most of the focus is on those parts of the process. That will help me judge the interest for a future offering.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2021

These links were all helpful (including the Javascript links below). Javascript Date Variable Help. This might be helpful to students or others looking for a way to create a quick sample for their portfolio without spending money. Certificates in Storyline. for an expiration date on a training certificate).

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Betty and I also talked about the process for creating branching scenarios, working with SMEs, and other helpful resources. We discussed the pros and cons and when each tool would make sense. If the podcast isn’t embedded above, you can listen to it directly on Anchor.fm , Spotify , or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 24, 2021

This presentation introduces the why and how of scenario-based learning to help you get started. Accelerate expertise: Research has shown that using scenarios helps people become experts faster. Have you ever thought that adding scenarios might improve your courses, but you weren’t sure where to start?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 16, 2020

I’d like your help answering a 2-question survey about what you’d like to learn about scenarios for learning. If you’re potentially interested in taking a course with me, let me know what would be most valuable or helpful to you. Many of my most popular blog posts have been prompted by questions from readers.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2023

I’ve found it helpful to approach networking with a focus on how I can give to other people, rather than what I can get. Being helpful to others shows people that you’re good to work with, and it demonstrates your expertise. Because I was helpful to someone else, he saw that I knew what I was talking about, and he hired me.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 16, 2021

Using a coach can help alleviate that problem, as can having learners ask for advice from people inside a scenario (a manager, an HR rep, another worker, etc.). Using a conversational tone for the instructional feedback also helps keep it within the scenario. More on scenario feedback.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 19, 2020

These resources provide an overview of the LMS selection process and help identify what questions you should be asking. The problem is that these features are nearly ubiquitous, so it doesn’t help you narrow your choices. Their reviews from users may also be helpful as you narrow down your list. LMS Options.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If your goal is to create 5 minute tutorials to help people solve a problem at the apply or solve moment of need , they’re already motivated and engaged. How helpful was it? Did you wonder WHY you might use certain features or why a software update would help you? Just get in, show the features, and be done.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Especially when I’m swamped with work, I use daily goals to help me stay on top of all of my projects. I find it helpful to build some slack into the timeline. Using daily goals and tracking daily progress helps you realize quickly when you have a problem. My daily goals spreadsheet. I have 8 working days to finish.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 15, 2023

I have found them very helpful in getting started as a beginner. I referenced the work of Karl Kapp and Clark Quinn. In ‘What I Learned This Week’, I discussed amigurumi , or crocheting 3D animals and objects. The crochet kits I mentioned are from the Woobles.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ideogram: Helping people become more creative. This would be a very helpful way to create a project plan, even if you’ve never created an ILT or elearning course before. Tools like Midjourney just aren’t ready to do that kind of consistency across a series of images yet. AI Image generation tool.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 11, 2021

I find it’s helpful for my own learning if I pull one or two key points out of those notes to help me remember the sessions. A short answer question can be graded manually by an instructor, shared with peers, or self-graded with a “guided evaluation”: a checklist to help learners assess their own work.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

… We must be able to see the gaps in our instructional design, which learning science helps to support. I wrote a free checklist to help guide elearning testing and reviews, published by the Learning Guild. Does learning science play a role in our work, and, just how much of an impact does it have on our profession?

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Making the divisions between screens clear and noting the screen name or number helps them keep everything straight. While a table format isn’t necessary, it can be helpful. This format uses one column for file names, one for voice over copy, and one for pronunciation help. Table Format. Revia: reh-VEE-uh. Listen here.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 28, 2020

It might help to think of the conclusion of your story in relation to your learning objectives. Their big goal is to help their team be productive and successful. However, if that training on assistive technology will help the employee perform better, it would actually help the team. How will your scenario end?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

7 Articles To Help You Improve Your eLearning Designs. Rounded corners on cards and buttons can be helpful to users for differentiating between items and recognizing what is clickable. This post includes links on UX, accessibility, branching scenarios, Twine, instructional design blogs, free/freemium tools, and systems thinking.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 30, 2021

I need some help finishing up an elearning course. If we can help with that, I might be able to find some more budget. I explained, “Instructional design is more about being a partner to help you solve problems than just making slides pretty. “Hi, Christy, it’s Lynn. Lynn paused to consider. Updated 3/30/2021.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That tells us that we both need to provide relevant content, and we need to help set expectations before people even start the video. I have heard parts of this presentation in a different format previously, but the overview of self-determination theory (SDT) by Deci and Ryan was helpful. Motivation and Learning by Julie Dirksen.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If you don’t have a transcript for your video, this tool can help speed up the process of adding captions. This article also includes ideas on how to make better requests, and that’s what’s probably most helpful here. Video Caption Generator – Automatic Captions – VEED.IO. requests – Ness Labs.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 30, 2023

A number of job seekers and transitioning teachers have asked about professional organizations to help people gain skills and network. LDA is aimed more at improving the skills of people already in the field of learning and development, rather than helping those new to the field.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 12, 2020

Now that nearly everyone is a remote worker, these tips can help train remote employees. Scenarios can be especially helpful in improving cognitive and emotional engagement. TalentLMS asked 11 folks in the learning and development world for tips for improving workplace training.

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