Integrated Learnings

APRIL 20, 2011

Most posts on this blog focus on what to do and how to do it – providing navigational cues , designing with social media , stimulating recall , forming sticky ideas , and so on. Discovery learning can help too. Gradually provide the information they need through coaching along the way. Telling stories can help.

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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). Provide images. A more realistic approach is to provide a screen image with a hotspot interaction. Hopefully subject matter experts (SMEs) can help.

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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

JULY 15, 2010

A post from a couple weeks ago explained that there are instructional design models that offer formulas for assembling training in a way that captures learners’ attention, conveys content, and provides learners with an opportunity to practice and receive feedback on new skills. Provide multiple examples of correct entries and common mistakes.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Even if the situation doesn’t allow you to conduct a gap and cause analysis to validate the training need , asking this question helps ensure that the training has the potential to influence behavior. Additionally, creating a quick list of what learners must be able to do can help you: Write objectives. scenarios help create “ah ha!”

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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. So how can we provide this guidance to learners? Expectations.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 28, 2012

Here is an illustration to help clarify the concept of performance consulting. This provides an excellent opportunity to consult and partner with those types of clients to look at all of these environmental and motivational factors. The BEM provides six categories for investigating all of the factors impacting performance.

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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

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. Using Variable Flags to Provide Feedback in Adobe Captivate. Perhaps the posts below can help you get started. We hope you found this post helpful. Personify eLearning.

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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

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

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. Provide the learner with a collaborator. As technology.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 2, 2011

Guided practice using online support information (such as a robust help lookup tool) can also help to provide enhanced practice time for learners. Gagne’s event nine, enhance retention and transfer, encourages providing ongoing support for learners as they transition to using their new knowledge in real situations.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 1, 2014

So, one of the challenges with designing the training was figuring out how to provide the repetition needed to build fluency, without it feeling repeatedly boring for the learners. The game starts with a playful, fictional backstory, which provides a reason for needing to complete the selected tasks in the software quickly and accurately.

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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 vendor provides training content and you are to convert it to training. The functional specifications are turned into help and documentation. We hope you found this post helpful. Do you know where that content comes from?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 4, 2011

A good storyboard provides: A simple visual layout you can easily use to check against the content points and specifications. If you are already using a storyboard template of some sort, it should provide the layout for your navigation, any special page formatting your company may have, legal pages, etc. So how could this work?

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

It has this reputation because it is user friendly, feature rich, reliable, and provides an identical experience for all users on all systems that support Adobe Flash. There are two roles Adobe Connect provides for teaming up on lectures and webinars. We hope you found this post helpful. by Jonathan Shoaf.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Like any skilled craftsman, a skilled e-learning developer will be a master at picking the right tool for the job to save time and provide the best possible user experience when given a client's set of requirements for a project. Articulate Quizmaker may not allow graphics in the feedback; however, it does provides the blank slide.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 11, 2012

The context of the game likely provides this intuitively. 5-- Provide learning guidance. This could occur by providing learners with a way to obtain hints throughout the game. 6 and 7-- Elicit performance (practice) and provide feedback. We hope you found this post helpful. 3-- Stimulate recall.

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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. Make a mistake?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 24, 2013

The purpose of using the iPads was to replace paper-based workbooks and job aids , and provide learners with easy access to training resources. Participants can then use Adobe Reader on the iPad to view the workbook which provides several options for viewing and sharing the document. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2012

One helpful feature of Lectora that is often neglected is “Text Styles.” They provide an easy way to set the font, color, and size settings for selections of text or entire text blocks. To share Text Styles between developers, Lectora provides the option to import and export Text Styles. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 11, 2012

If you have the Lectora Professional addition, you can also use a web service provided by Trivantis known as ReviewLink. With this service, you can place your published material on the server for your SMEs to review with full functionality and provide feedback. We hope you found this post helpful. Elements in your storyboard.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 27, 2011

I would argue that we can, provided the eLearning has some elements to make it a successful interaction. Follow your video clips with knowledge check questions asking for the learner’s feedback on what they have just viewed, and providing appropriate feedback to the learner’s response. We hope you found this post helpful.

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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.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Whatever the case, provide your team with a focus. 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.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 16, 2011

This year's 2011 Lectora user conference provided my first opportunity to hear learning futurist Elliot Masie ( of The Masie Center ) speak live; he didn't disappoint. One caveat -- since today's workforce is more empowered and helping themselves, this means that the information they are finding had better be accurate. By Jay Lambert.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 24, 2011

for a brochure or catalog), the librarian is expected to provide three options that meet at least 75% of the criteria indicated in the request. But the goal of this post isn’t to provide a crash course on writing performance objectives. We hope you found this post helpful. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Provide tools such as flash cards or provocative questions to challenge one another. Have them stop periodically to talk with each other about what they are learning or to answer questions or solve problems provided by the program. We hope you found this post helpful. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

gaining attention , storytelling , providing practice opportunities, etc.). But you can help an organization make progress. We hope you found this post helpful. According to most definitions, an “engaged” employee is a high-quality performer who takes personal responsibility to work toward the success of an organization.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 31, 2011

All of these activities provide feedback and scoring, which in turn motivates learners to do well. provides tools such as wikis, blogs, discussion threads, and other tools that will allow social interactivity. We hope you found this post helpful. ©Integrated Learning Services, Inc.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

provide us with ways to reach out to others, discuss what's on our mind, and ultimately attempt to make sense of the world around us. Provide a discussion forum for learners to post their insights from training. Providing structure for a learner to discuss the training with a manager can be an effective way to encourage this.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

But what if your LMS is a 3rd party provider and you don’t really care where it is or how its configured and backed up.well that could be considered in the cloud. They provide SCORM services in the cloud that can work with online applications through an API. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 14, 2010

Therefore, the key to overcoming this obstacle may be to help stakeholders visualize how the proposed eLearning course would work. As with the item above, it may help to provide stakeholders with specific examples of how learners will apply newly learned skills and receive feedback on their performance in the eLearning environment.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 18, 2011

It is really fun to watch all the latest smartphones, tablets and other devices try to out-do each other with new technologies to provide convenience to consumers and businesses alike. We hope you found this post helpful. Being a telecommunications guy, I like to keep up on the latest mobile devices available to consumers.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, if you know your learners have no way to print documents, you can organize your document’s layout so that most-used information is listed first, and provide links to more details on certain topics. • We hope you found this post helpful. How do learners access information? Search engine? Scan pages?

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