eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

When creating eLearning, we must grab learners’ attention. Engaging learners needs to be at the forefront of every design plan. loud enough for learners to hear. Keep it real, and your learners will reap the rewards. Learners want to have fun. Make sure your content shouts “HEY YOU!”

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The power of story helps us engage learners with the eLearning content we deliver. Your eLearning content may not provide such dramatic issues, but your first step is to find a problem—one to which learners will relate—that needs solving and also relates to your content. He offers to help her learn how to use the system.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As an eLearning developer, I use instructional design principles and a few of my own techniques to create an online experience that learners will never forget. After reviewing your course content and objectives, decide the best way to deliver the materials to your learners. Technology makes it so easy to develop eLearning programs.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 20, 2016

First and foremost, you should be using an LMS to see how many learners are enrolled in and completing your eLearning courses. The purpose of training materials is to help educate learners and improving their skills. User completion tracked in an LMS might help identify what is and isn’t working regarding your design.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 30, 2016

We’ve already seen how today’s devices—laptops, smartphones, and tablets—make eLearning available to more learners, regardless of where they’re located. Thanks to mobile , learning is now available whenever and wherever learners are able to access content. We know learners benefit from experiential learning.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 26, 2023

They can help you assess learner performance or guide learners through a specific narrative or branching path. Questions in CenarioVR® can serve many different purposes. Creating questions in CenarioVR is relatively simple and can be done in just a few clicks.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 30, 2015

If you’re responsible for providing training experiences for today’s corporate learners, you must include games as part of your learning content. But if you ask your adult learners whether they want to read a manual, sit through a 3-hour PowerPoint presentation or play a game, their response ( games !) Using games is a no-brainer.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 5, 2016

However, if you exclude all the aforementioned buttons, your learners will get stuck as they look back at the first question. I racked my brain about what to do here, as I had a colleague frustrated with this very situation for a module he was building, and I wanted to help solve the problem. Practice File Scenario. on the timeline).

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 19, 2022

The tactic involves breaking down concepts into smaller, bite-sized chunks in order to help learners retain more information. The reason being learners only have to remember and digest smaller pieces of information which increases overall comprehension. In our previous post, we discussed a new learning approach—microlearning.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 21, 2014

Most learners attend an eLearning software training course and feel overwhelmed when they return to the office,” said Josh Cavalier, CEO of Lodestone. The mission of eLearning Brothers is to “Help You Create Awesome eLearning”. Developers have access to over 20,000 files during and after training. eLearning Template Library.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 19, 2022

The tactic involves breaking down concepts into smaller, bite-sized chunks in order to help learners retain more information. The reason being learners only have to remember and digest smaller pieces of information which increases overall comprehension. In our previous post, we discussed a new learning approach—microlearning.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 14, 2021

eLearning scenarios give us a unique opportunity to connect with our learners on a human level. Showcasing different situations a learner may find themselves in helps them connect with and apply what they learn.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I used a People Cutout series to give the course a friendly presenter that walks the learner through the training. Inserting some Flash interactions and a game helped make the course more engaging. I started off with a PowerPoint Course style template that I then customized to match my branding.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Do you have learners or employees that need to touch objects to do their job? If your learners need to sort objects, move things around, put things away, or get a better look at them to perform on-the-job tasks, CenarioVR’s latest features will help your workforce master these skills.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 27, 2018

When I think about the training that has been the most effective, it involved helping the client to “remember their CBAs.”. First, helping clients see beyond the “ Cognitive-only course.” Second, creating courses that influence or change learners’ “ Behaviors.” or “What behaviors do we want to instill in the learners?”

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

I like to use click alerts through out the course to help the user know when I expect them to interact with content. How do they know when they are supposed to interact with your course content? Here are some examples of what I call “click alerts&#. The click alerts below are made in flash and usually have a slight pulse or strobe.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 11, 2016

It stands to reason that the learner has turned on the CC feature for a reason, and we wouldn’t want him or her to have to keep toggling the feature on for every slide. We’ve yet to create an actual toggle for the learner to access the CC layer. Why you may ask? While on the base layer, create something to your liking.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 20, 2014

The Experiential Course Flow is a simple way to think about structuring course flow to capitalize on the adult learner’s natural tendencies, strengths, and preferences. Here are a few: 1) Adult Learners enjoy connecting to and sharing their experience. 3) Most people learn by doing.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 8, 2018

A learner’s first response to proposed training is the need to understand, “what is this all about?” Learners don’t necessarily accept change at first; they want to understand what the training is all about. The learners need to know what the training is all about. Learners completing training are no different.

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As we focus on reaching learners where and how they desire, industry leaders are seeing measurable results in improved retention of information vital to company productivity.”. eLearning Brothers helps everyone create and deliver eLearning that rocks!

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Unfortunately, some scenarios are not designed to allow learners to correct their choices—or, they’re ONLY designed to let the learner try over and over again without the benefit of learning from impact ( see Part 2, Consequences ) and reflection ( see Part 3, Connections ). And hopefully, they’ll be right!

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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As more companies expand their eLearning programs on a multinational scale, instructional designers are more frequently finding themselves in positions of having to design for learners with backgrounds and cultures very different from their own. Give the learners control.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 13, 2018

There’s a commonly cited statistic floating around the training world that says learners forget anywhere from 30-70% of what they learned within four days of attending a training session. Training teaches you new skills, but performance support helps you apply those new skills later on down the line in real-life situations.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 9, 2018

Some people argue that delivering multiple choice quizzes in eLearning makes adult learners feel like schoolchildren. When learners are tested, they are required to retrieve knowledge from memory. Studies have shown that using quizzes results in improved learner retention. But why must we use any kind of quiz?

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 10, 2018

Issues such as a lack of consistency in the design or navigation, a lack of accessibility, a lack of clarity in the content, poor structure, and even typos within the onscreen text are known to easily lead learners down a path of frustration, boredom, and complete disengagement, and ultimately be fatal to successful knowledge transfer.

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In moments like those, it’s easy to feel defeated, knowing that your learners are going to be miserable and that there isn’t a thing you can do about it… or, is there? Often in eLearning we want to provide our learners with a tour of our “important key points.” Remember Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ?

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 29, 2017

As an opening exercise, learners are walked through conflict scenario involving two coworkers, Adrian and Susan. A dragger interaction allows learners to sort out positive methods of responding to conflict from the negative ones. Click here to view a live demo of this course. Need more soft skills training?

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eLearning Brothers

AUGUST 2, 2018

In last week’s webinar Josh Bleggi, our Learning Designer, borrowed three tools from the world of Human Centered Design (HCD) to help you get to know your learners better, so you can serve them up some awesome mind-blowing, life-changing learning experiences. Would that help to accomplish the same thing using less time?

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 2, 2014

My job was to help people become successful—not to see them let go. Most of your learners who are failing are probably those with little background in computers, am I right?”. My learners didn’t have existing schemas. Analogies Speed Up Comprehension & Reduce Learner Frustration. He was right—it was simple.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 27, 2017

At its core, a common scenario isn’t that difficult to craft: tell a story, ask the learner what they want to do about it, and let them know how they did. Choices refer to the options a learner must select from as they respond to a decision point in a scenario. Consequences. Connections. Corrections. Are you maximizing all of them?

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 26, 2016

We could list hundreds of ways that it benefits learners and the larger institution. During a workshop, an instructor engages participants in conversation about the topic which extend the learning and help illustrate how the content applies to everyday experience. Learners are ready and able to embrace online learning.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 19, 2016

It often appears that the things we learned at universities a few years ago become outdated, new trends come calling the shots, and eLearning seems the only savior to help us stay the course. Unlike high school students, corporate learners will hardly learn something for the sake of learning. 2) Help them overcome the fear of change.

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In order for that to happen, you need to help your managers become the best coaches they can be. However you use it, the course will help develop the coaching skills your team members need to help your organization succeed. This course is full of scenarios and interactivity that is sure to keep your learners engaged.

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

CenarioVR®, Lectora®, The Training Arcade®, and eLearning Brothers Custom Development Solutions Helped Secure 4 Awards. All four of these awards demonstrate that our products and services helped our clients achieve outstanding results,” states Andrew Scivally, CEO of eLearning Brothers.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It enables learners to digest the information they need when they need it, without having to learn additional information through traditional education and training. Overall, micro-learning provides learners with more power over their learning experience. Who benefits from micro-learning? About the Author.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 21, 2018

This line of communication is often lost in the workplace—either in the vast quantity of messages or from fear of voicing an opinion; the restoration of this direct line of communication helps reconnect peers and managers alike. User-friendly activity feed. Competitive Learning. Users of Motivate Cloud have seen a 5.5x About the Author.

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The learner will quickly stop noticing your character if you use the same image over and over again. Her glasses are stylin’ but I would be a pretty depressed learner if she frowned at me like that for a whole course! Choose a character that fits your learner demographics and workplace formality. Tips for Using Cutout People.

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