Integrated Learnings

JUNE 27, 2012

I recently started teaching myself how to play harmonica with the help of a book from the For Dummies series. As I started to sputter out a few tunes on my new harmonica, I made it a point to notice the instructional tactics that were most helpful for me. I found the "tip" and "warning" icons most helpful. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 2, 2013

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. Perhaps the posts below can help you get started. Help ensure that your eLearning doesn’t distract from learning with the help of the posts below. Personify eLearning.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It helps me make sure that learners spend a larger proportion of the lesson time doing rather than being told. It helps me better differentiate critical versus nice to know information. And, it helps ensure alignment. We hope you found this post helpful. Granted, this sequence might not work well for everyone.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 20, 2011

Discovery learning can help too. This helps shift the focus from reading to doing. We know that reviewing content and repeating important points helps solidify information in memory. Telling stories can help. We hope you found this post helpful. Think visual design. which requires much less text.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 29, 2015

Consider including images , audio , and/or video , to help convey emotions within the stories. These illustrative approaches can help convey the goals and benefits of the culture shift and inspire learners to work toward it. We hope you found this post helpful. Create a unique and inspiring experience.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 17, 2012

Teach them how to use it, prompt them to refer to it to help them solve a scenario , and provide any supporting clarification and tips as needed within the scenario's context. Using these same job aids to help introduce new knowledge helps reinforce the availability of job aids and how to use them. It mirrors the job.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 30, 2012

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 20, 2014

For instance, you might have a “Navigation Help” button that’s always available at the top or bottom of the screen. For example, an informal pre-quiz can be an effective way to acknowledge what learners already know about a topic, while also making them aware of what they don’t know, to help prime them for upcoming content.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Designing eLearning around problems that learners encounter on the job can help avoid this pitfall. Scenario-based training prompts learners to solve problems they will encounter on the job, helping to ensure we prepare them to perform their jobs successfully. This helps keep the scenarios realistic.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 4, 2011

Social interactions can also help. Scenarios with consequences can help learners practice and test their tacit understanding of concepts and decision making. Observing outcomes on the job and debriefing decision making can help cement their practical use of tacit knowledge, and may even help make some of it more explicit.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 30, 2012

Have you ever been invited to attend a workshop that promises to help you improve your memory? Perhaps it promised to help you remember people’s names, among other day-to-day things? The key is to help learners conjure up an existing mental model, so that it’s easily accessible for integrating the new knowledge they’re about to learn.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 31, 2013

The Pareto Principle can be used to help focus time and effort to get the outcomes most desired. The functional specifications are turned into help and documentation. We hope you found this post helpful. I''ve always believed the development process for software applications and e-learning have a lot in common.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 25, 2012

Researchers believe that REM sleep helps facilitate this process. The November/December issue of Scientific American Mind has a special report that cites several studies about how sleep can help us remember and solve problems. It even suggests that we can train our dreams to help us creatively solve problems! And there’s more!

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 17, 2013

As with any tool, it’s always helpful to see tips and tricks from others that you can add to your own projects. If you're working with Lectora and need some assistance, here’s a list of helpful resources available online. We hope you found this post helpful. We use Lectora a good bit for eLearning development.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 13, 2011

It also makes sense to assess learners’ knowledge and performance during training (level 2), for the sake of corrective coaching, encouragement, and potentially offering additional support to help learners prepare for on-the-job application. Even if we need other information sources to help us with the rest. I agree that’s a mistake.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 14, 2013

can help emotionally engage learners with the content, creating a motivational and memorable learning experience. for incorrect choices illustrated how the suboptimal action helped the thief by making the potential victims vulnerable. We hope you found this post helpful. production. Rather, a simple yet compelling story.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 3, 2011

We should provide hints that help the learner figure out the correct answer and/or understand why the selected answer is incorrect. We hope you found this post helpful. In many eLearning lessons, a box appears that says something like, “Incorrect. Please try again.”. That’s a missed opportunity. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2011

We know that Robert Gagne’s nine events of instruction is a helpful guide for designing engaging eLearning. You might also ask them what resources they already know are available to help them (e.g., When learners answer incorrectly, use the feedback to offer hints to help them figure out the correct response. (5) By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In this context, rules aren’t intended to inhibit.instead, they help ensure that ideas flow freely. To help ensure variety, encourage ideas from everyone involved. Have you found brainstorming helpful? We hope you found this post helpful. Whatever the case, provide your team with a focus.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The storytelling quality of scenarios helps make the lessons learned in training memorable. You probably know enough to build a basic structure, but you need the help of a SME to fill in blanks with realistic details. What I needed help with was writing realistic dialog. We hope you found this post helpful. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

It helps learners retain newly learned information by building on existing knowledge. Then, elaborate on the scenario in a way that the learner can fully resolve with the help of the newly presented content. --5-- A solid change management strategy can help with this. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

We can use this knowledge to help improve recall. For example, the coach might be a manager who needs the learner to help accomplish a challenge. The main character was a manager who needed someone to help her answer customers’ questions about insurance. We hope you found this post helpful. As technology. The research….

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 18, 2011

Here are some reasons to consider: Helps you to gauge time to create interactions so that you can provide better overall time estimates for a given project. Helps you to decide whether to include an interaction--just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Apparently, the lessons did not provide the cues necessary to help learners distinguish what they ought to jot down versus content they could easily look up later when needed. Naturally, this prompted us to rethink how to help learners take notes productively. We hope you found this post helpful. Scenario-Focus.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 22, 2012

After using Lectora for almost five years, I’ve learned so much both from the helpful community of Lectora users and on my own. Finally, there is the helpful ability to “Snap to” guides and gridlines. Learning and using Lectora hotkeys (keyboard combination shortcuts) can help to reduce development time. By Joseph Suarez.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For starters, asking learners to explain the logic they applied during an activity can help validate that they “got it” (as opposed to making a few lucky guesses). Revisiting that logic also helps reinforce it, increasing the likelihood that learners will recall and replicate the logic or procedure later. How does a debrief add value?

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 14, 2012

You can also change font colors to help you keep track of how tasks are organized. The conditional formatting feature can be especially helpful for highlighting tasks according to their status or drawing attention to one that becomes past due. We hope you found this post helpful. What tools do you use for project management?

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 25, 2012

And it will help avoid gotchas that can happen when copy/pasting existing Actions or inserting them as Library Objects. We hope you found this post helpful. The new Lectora will give us a visual cue when conditions exist for an Action. Currently, you have to open the Conditions tab to see if anything is there.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2011

The answers to these questions will help you to determine visual cues to use to guide learners to scan for information, such as: o Meaningful link labeling. Also, knowing how learners access information will help you to determine search tags for the document, so learners can find it quickly when searching the Internet or Intranet.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 16, 2011

One caveat -- since today's workforce is more empowered and helping themselves, this means that the information they are finding had better be accurate. If your learners are seeking help at the Moment of Need, then they need the information. What it does have to be, though, is helpful and easily viewable.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 23, 2011

Describing consequences helps learners understand the bigger picture and can help their decisions in training feel more real (and perhaps more memorable). Hopefully subject matter experts (SMEs) can help. We hope you found this post helpful. Or attempt to sell a product the customer doesn’t qualify for? Provide images.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The idea is that knowing what you want in life allows you to act in ways that help you realize your goals. Our objectives, and all development work that follows, should directly help to close that gap. After you understand someone, you can better relate to that person and help that individual understand you. Habit 6: Synergize.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Audio narration can help to describe charts and graphs that would otherwise require a lot of reading. It can add an element of having a “trainer” to help expand on the points that are being presented on the slides – it adds a human touch to the course. We hope you found this post helpful. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Besides, presenting data-based evaluation results to stakeholders helps build our credibility. Next, determine who can help you answer the questions and how you can get that data. Or simply categorize the comments you received to help you identify trends. We hope you found this post helpful. Back to brainstorming.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 15, 2013

If a learner doesn’t self-correct before reaching the end of what you opt to allow, you might display feedback that helps learners recognize what they’ve done incorrectly and/or identify the misunderstanding that may have led them astray. We hope you found this post helpful. To control the cost and time required to create a branching.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 29, 2011

An editor with color coding and automatic formatting will help a lot. Being familiar with the XML will help you next time batch changes need to be made to your project. We hope you found this post helpful. I suggest opening up the Lectora.awt project file in your favorite text or XML editor and exploring what’s in there.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 11, 2010

It can help you confirm that the organization is ready for eLearning from a technology and infrastructure perspective. It can help you gauge the success of your change management efforts. This certainly isn’t an exhaustive checklist for transitioning to eLearning, but it should help guide some of your first steps.

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