Mike Taylor

JULY 10, 2020

Clive Shepherd reflects on how central storytelling has become so central to his approach to learning design. Personally, I think writing/storytelling is one of the most valuable skills contributing to the success of learning design projects. Why social learning will be even more vital in the future of Work.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

Free Coronavirus Stock Photos. These stock photos are provided courtesy of Icons8. Coronavirus stock photos. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Participate in the weekly elearning challenges to sharpen your skills. They’re free to use.

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Spark Your Interest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It enables instructional designers to create custom interactive courses. Many instructional designers are familiar with Articulate Storyline. Extensive design capabilities. While many instructional designers are familiar with Articulate Storyline, you should look for someone with proven expertise.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? So then do you go do a custom photo shoot?

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It seems like every day there’s a new site that offers free stock images. Seriously, how many stock images are you really using? In the past, I’ve save you some time by reviewing free stock images and curating them into contextual downloads. Stock Up is courtesy of Site Builder Report. Stock Snap.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

Examples of Free Stock Video Courses. Great use of stock video throughout. Love the way she tied the colors and yoyo into the design. Find Free Stock Videos. One of the first questions that comes up is where to get free stock videos. And don’t forget about all of the free stock photo sites we covered earlier.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The Internet is rife with free things, especially free stock image sites. However, there are usually three main issues with the free stock image sites: The free stock images aren’t really free. The free stock image sites are only there to point to for-pay stock image sites. Free Stock Images in the Community.

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Making Change

JANUARY 10, 2017

What would happen if we invested less in eye candy and more in designing deep challenges? I created two activities to help instructional designers practice the initial conversation with their client. Activity 2: Just one photo and lots more brain. ” I do that in my scenario design course.

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Matthew Guyan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The role of Instructional Designer (ID) is evolving into a Learning Experience Designer (LXD). Ceren Korkmaz 1 offers a distinction between the two terms that resonates with me: “instructional design emphasizes the source of knowledge – in other words the planning of the teaching activities. 1 Korkmaz, C.,

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Axonify

MARCH 24, 2017

After all, this is a foundational skill for a modern L&D pro, especially in large organizations that use a lot of online content. I often share this tongue-in-cheek quiz with instructional design teams to help make my point about poorly-written questions. How to Plan, Design and Write Tests from eLearning Coach Podcast.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

JUNE 27, 2022

Spoon Theory Explained Accessibility Standards for Canvas (LMS) Thrive Learning and Skills Platform (LMS) Voice 123 —Voiceover Talent (searchable by language, binary gender, and age). I left out one resource that was shared via chat, for a VR platform that aims to teach life skills for neurodivergent people. Sources for Diverse Images.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They offer a visual design that is cohesive and includes a lot of common objects, such as content holders, progress indicators, badges, and buttons. Many stock image sites sell GUIs. Below is a screenshot from Deposit Photos. Graphic Burger is another site that shares a lot of free stock assets. Download the free game ui.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 20, 2014

It doesn’t matter your skill level, it is important that you sketch to keep everything unified. Once you have a style you can either download your stock photos, or create those graphics. eLearning Instructional Design Resources' . #3 Bring It All Together. After you have done the research, start sketching.

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Axonify

MARCH 24, 2017

After all, this is a foundational skill for a modern L&D pro, especially in large organizations that use a lot of online content. I often share this tongue-in-cheek quiz with instructional design teams to help make my point about poorly-written questions. How to Plan, Design and Write Tests from eLearning Coach Podcast.

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Making Change

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The images of Allison used in the Flash come from one of several sets of fun stock photos designed for use in scenarios, available from ElearningArt. The “order taker&# meter is a static PNG in three versions (&# order taker,&# midpoint, and “instructional designer&# ).

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Limestone Learning

JULY 31, 2023

(Free for ATD members) Generative AI has unleashed a world of possibilities in the realm of skill development and corporate learning. This technology can dramatically affect how you create and assign training, revolutionizing how skills are acquired. Learn how to enhance, modify and expand stock images using the new Photoshop beta.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 29, 2016

In recent free webinar on the 10 Lessons Learned My First Year in E-Learning , I talked about my realization that the field of e-learning is so much more than just the practice of instructional design. Instructional design was just one piece of a larger skillset that I needed to master. Instructional Design.

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learnWorlds

JULY 14, 2022

An eLearning authoring tool is an important component in creating e-learning content and a must-have tool for instructional designers, L&D professionals, and training businesses. Individual course creators, instructional designers, SMEs, nonprofits, and small enterprises. There are many options to choose from.

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Stock images are getting better, but too many of them showcase only a narrow slice of humanity (primary white, young, conventionally beautiful, and depressingly happy—and that’s not even mentioning the lack of representation of people with disabilities). Photo shoots are useful, but can be time-consuming and expensive to set up.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 20, 2023

These bad boys allow anyone, even those without coding skills, to transform their data into a professional and fully functional website. With easy-to-use drag and drop interfaces and a variety of templates and design options, you’ll be able to bring your spreadsheet data to life and create an interactive website in no time.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Get inspiration from stock photo sites and try to mimic them. Free Stock Photos. Search most free sites: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up. https://community.articulate.com/articles/free-stock-photo-sites-for-e-learning. Participate in the weekly elearning challenges to sharpen your skills.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Many of the courses I see use bland, corporate branded templates coupled with generic stock images. Obviously this is a challenge because most of us aren’t illustrators nor have access to graphic designers who can create custom characters for us. If you use photos, select the same type with similar backgrounds. Or flip it.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 15, 2016

How many times have you tried to identify a font, or find the source of an image, or tried to find just the right stock photo? Multimedia for E-Learning: How to Search Free Stock Photos. There are all sorts of free stock image sites. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Litmos

DECEMBER 6, 2016

What training professionals do with the media they have is largely what instructional design/development has become. Stock Photo Subscriptions. Up your image game significantly by applying stock photos to all of your work. Up your image game significantly by applying stock photos to all of your work.

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Maestro

MAY 5, 2022

Learning, when done right, equips learners with the skills they need to grow in their careers and to impact the business. We believe learners deserve intentionally designed experiences that help them build skills, not just pass a knowledge check. Take stock by evaluating current content, missing content, and available data.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

Tools - A Summary Issues: Needed Skills for New Media eLearning 2.0: Enterprise Use Video Format Comparison - Flash - WMV - Quicktime - Real eLearning Defined ROI and Metrics in eLearning eLearning Design - Posts about Designing eLearning Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional Designers Is Your eLearning Broken?

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I achieved this through (brace yourself Instructional Design World), not focusing on the content. ” We expect them to be excited by our factoids, stock photos and sound effects when in reality the learner just doesn’t care. eLearning Instructional Design Resources'

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Is it down to fancy tools, qualifications, or top video creation skills? It’s easy to grab a few stock photos of people high fiving in suits, but to make your content more relevant, you could use images from the organization you’re in. What does it take to be great at learning and development? Not exactly.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I have use my Google Photos account, but images can be uploaded to all sorts of services, which can be seen in the image below. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Participate in the weekly elearning challenges to sharpen your skills. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 26, 2015

Not having it means we’ll need to get better at our design and learn a few new skills. I settled for Dollar Photo Club because of the simplicity in pricing. Many of the other stock image sites charge quite a bit more for their vector images. Take your own stock photos. How to Find Free Clip Art.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2016

Having free clip art is a big deal for those of us on fixed budgets and with limited access to stock images and clip art to use in our elearning courses, presentations, and training programs. How to Use Pickit for Free Clip Art & Stock Images. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 25, 2017

The challenge is that graphic design and visual communication are their own fields and it’s hard enough to be a good instructional designer let alone a good graphic artist. So in this post, we’ll review some common visual design mistakes that are easily fixed. Getting Started?

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Its the kind of day here in New England when you turn inward and take stock of the past year. Getting Started in Instructional Design : in which I point to some useful resources for those just getting started in the field.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2015

In one template I added photo characters and in the other I added some of the free people icons I featured in a previous blog post. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Participate in the weekly elearning challenges to sharpen your skills. Click here to view the PowerPoint demo.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 13, 2011

Below, what could have been a bullet list of eLearning design skills is placed in horizontally arranged text boxes with a 1 pixel border. Another simple approach is to find an interesting silhouette at a stock photo site or even to draw a simple geometric shape. Alternative 2: Let icons do the talking. Comment below.

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EI Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Real world simulations give employees the opportunity to utilize their skills, knowledge, and experience in a practical setting. You also don’t have to hire an Instructional Designer to create one from scratch, as it features customizable placeholders. How To Develop Real World Online Training Simulations With Limited Resources.

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EI Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Real world simulations give employees the opportunity to utilize their skills, knowledge, and experience in a practical setting. You also don’t have to hire an Instructional Designer to create one from scratch, as it features customizable placeholders. How To Develop Real World Online Training Simulations With Limited Resources.

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