E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 14, 2017

ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic (see example topic questions?) Professional Custom Writing Service provides high quality essays writing service and other custom writing services: academic writing, thesis and article writing create a good thesis statement (see an example?)

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 10, 2017

Since 1999, XanEdu has helped thousands of partners adapt and thrive by providing the right Academic and professional learning needs are changing faster than ever.

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 31, 2013

Maybe you don’t know what vendors can provide the exact product or service you need, or it might be that you aren’t even sure WHAT you need. The RFI is a great tool to help you get the information you need about possible vendors and their products and services. Provide an outline for them to use when writing their response.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One suggestion for doing so – produce several short help-desk videos that will help cut down on their call volume. This will free their time up to help your project and will save them headaches in the long run. It’s very helpful to consider operating systems and devices individually. Make sure you have their support.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 28, 2014

You want to be helpful. One thing you can do is provide a list of questions about browsers, operating systems and the like. Simply ask your customer to click the link, and you’ll be provided with valuable technical information about the computer he or she is using, including all of the following: Operating System. Web Browser.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 12, 2015

Working with professional voice-over talent can help your courses be more polished and professional, but this comes at an expense. Over the years, I’ve discovered several tips for working with voice-over talent to help make the process easier and more efficient, which can help keep your costs down.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 13, 2014

Do you ask your friends and family to help you out, but risk it not sounding professional? Each artist provides an audio sample, giving you an idea of what you can expect the finished product to sound like. You provide the details of the work you need, and sellers submit offers to you. The other option is to request a gig.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 2, 2014

In the third step of Cathy’s action mapping process, she says to design activities that help people practice each behavior. Note that in this map, the color coding continues to help identify who is responsible for what. An easy way to do this is by generating a colorized flow chart that might look something like this.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 12, 2017

Write or Die helps eliminate procrastination by providing consequences for dawdling whilst writing.

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 6, 2016

This makes them an active participant in the story and helps them use their new knowledge and skills. It also helps to consult with your subject-matter experts, and even your target audience, to help you develop realistic content. Realistic Situations. Realistic Consequences.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When the budget allows, it is helpful when a translation vendor can provide an end-to-end solution, especially for languages that don’t use the Roman alphabet. With industry-specific terms and acronyms, it helps to create a table explaining how they’d like certain terms to be translated. Content preparation.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 21, 2014

Drop shadows help to make your content pop off the screen and can provide visual focal cues to your learners. Reduce the opacity of the image or add a colored overlay to help integrate the image with the course branding/colors.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 21, 2016

When I first started developing e-learning courses, my biggest frustration was how to take all of the content provided by my subject-matter expert and transform it into a development-ready storyboard that also met the learning needs of my audience. I had a springboard to help guide me through writing each slide in my course.

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 20, 2014

We thought it would be helpful to have a list of them here, in one place. ASTD.org/Communities-of-Practice/Learning-Technologies : Provides current and archived Learning Technologies articles, webcasts, books, and blog posts. If you’re like me, you’re always looking for ways to grow and new things to learn.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 22, 2014

However, should you need assistance, there are several short videos, as well as FAQs, that offer helpful tips and explanations. Neither of these steps are required (again, no hoops to jump through), but they are helpful if you’re working on several projects or if you’ll be generating a report later.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 7, 2014

The new button tool will let you customize each state of the button with color, text, font, and style options, and provide access to a new disabled state. This alone will certainly help, but let’s hope that Lectora will also support the ability to move objects on and off the canvas with the Move action. Improved Tables and Lists.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 8, 2012

So, what does LEGO do (that we can use when developing training programs) to help someone learn to transform that pile of 309 plastic LEGO pieces into a plane? We can create desire in a course by helping a learner see what they will learn in the course and how it will help them. Here are the strategies I noticed. Create desire.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 24, 2016

Help your SMEs by guiding and educating them about the e-learning development process. By doing this, you instill a sense trust and credibility with your SMEs and help them further understand their role in the process. Strategy #3: Get Your SMEs in the Same Room. This is especially true when you’re working with more than one SME.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Answering these questions can help determine the type of information you want available for each project in your system. Answering these questions can help you decide if you want to use your system as a document repository or if, instead, you want to link to documents stored elsewhere. Are you willing to change that process?

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Asking the right questions can help us get the information we need to make a course interesting and effective. Over the years, we have developed a list of questions specifically designed to help with this SME conversation. Over the years, we have developed a list of questions specifically designed to help with this SME conversation.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

RFPs are formal documents written to vendors that specifically list what you want and help the vendor provide a specific, binding proposal. They can help you make apples-to-apples comparisons of possible vendors. And, they can certainly benefit you! Follow DesireePinder.

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E-learning Uncovered

DECEMBER 13, 2012

As I begin a new project like this I like to ask myself these key questions to help clarify the task of converting the course to e-learning. In many cases it’s the instructor, not the PowerPoint presentation or participant guide, who really provides coherence to the material. Is the content well-organized and does it flow well?

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Images, graphics, diagrams, and illustrations are a great way to help your audience visualize the meaning of your content. The truth is, a perfectly selected image can provide more meaning to your content than a thousand words ever could. Luckily for us, there are plenty of tools to help us out.

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E-learning Uncovered

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Aaron Silvers and Kris Rockwell, helping Jane McGonigal demonstrate massively multiplayer thumb wrestling. Jeanette Brooks from Articulate and Diane Elkins were a huge help working the room and troubleshooting as we covered as much ground as we could in these 75-minute, hands-on sessions. Their analytics help them tell a story.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Make it your policy to do a little research before asking the client for help. There’s nothing wrong with needing help from time to time, but if that question can be answered by doing a quick search, why not handle it yourself? Provide a quality product. Read and reread the instructions for the project.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 27, 2016

When you’re provided branding guidelines from your marketing department or client, that’s graphic design. Graphic design and visual communications should work together to help elevate your message and make it easier for your learners to understand, remember, and apply your learning content.

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E-learning Uncovered

MARCH 31, 2014

His tips were designed to help you become a more confident and successful e-learning professional. We work with translation vendors and voiceover talent to provide us with the text and audio for the courses and then piece everything together within the authoring tool. It’s on Wednesday, April 2nd at 10:00 a.m. Click here to register.

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Here are some helpful hints which can help you avoid this unpleasant situation. You may need to contact the media provider to find out. If you want the person you hire to keep the information confidential, you would need to provide that person with your own NDA. Pick the right license type. Know your restrictions.

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 24, 2013

A while back, I did a comparison grid to help outline the key differences. Storyline wins because it provides three options with one publish: Flash, Storyline mobile player for the iPad, or HTML5. They are all very good tools that can help you create strong e-learning courses. So which tool is best? It depends!

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 2, 2012

Conversely, if we slavishly build a course based exclusively on the client’s dictates, we may end up with an ineffective course and miss an opportunity to help the client increase their bottom line. Provide a summary as to what you took out and why you think it’s best for the course.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 7, 2011

When the economy is tight you find the larger companies gobbling up their weaker rivals ( Trivantis bought Flypaper ), partnerships being created among varying technologies ( GoToMeeting & Skype ), and new tools coming on line that will help customers get it done faster and with fewer resources ( Articulate’s Storyline ).

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 27, 2014

For this project, we used a service called CrossBrowserTesting.com which provided a virtual browser environment that any tester could access from his/her own computer. In both cases, I found the representatives to be friendly, responsive, and helpful. For this project, CrossBrowserTesting.com was a helpful solution.

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 7, 2016

We had a blast helping a group of newbies learn the ins and outs of e-learning. You have to pick the slides that are going to the most inspiring to others and provide the best wow-factor. It always helps to have a great looking course, but what really speaks to people is a course that is designed well for the business need at hand.

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E-learning Uncovered

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

That realization helped shape my career path and is part of what led me to e-learning. Stories provide an immersive experience that emotionally connects the learner to the content. She said, “You think your interests are scattered, but there’s a pattern. You’re a storyteller.”

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 4, 2015

A few months ago, Articulate released an update for Storyline 2 that included a number of features that can help you make your courses accessible to those with disabilities. So in an accessible course, you need to provide a text description for non-text elements so that the screen reader knows what to say.

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 1, 2011

We’ve been on many projects where the client or SME has great intentions to provide some information by Thursday or have reviews back by Tuesday. Creating a more tangible deadline might help everyone give their tasks more priority. But when Thursday and Tuesday come around, they haven’t gotten to it.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

To help learners see themselves in this role, I assembled a cast of characters to be the learner’s “classmates” in the course. But no doubt helped along by the no-Flash limitation on iPhones and iPads, today’s software market looks quite different.

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