Integrated Learnings

APRIL 20, 2011

Even rapid authoring tools generally have a variety of interaction types available. And in many cases, a smaller number of rich and highly interactive activities may be more impactful than numerous short, similarly structured knowledge check questions. Too much formality.

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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. Isn't that what it's all about?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 29, 2015

For example, create a story with dialog between characters, in which learners can clearly see elements of the change demonstrated in the interaction. What types of interactions, images, and effects can get you there? What kind of experience do you want to create? What tone do you want to set?

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Without breaking the user’s navigational frame of reference, additional content, feedback, or interactivity can be presented. You’ve no doubt encountered these types of interactions frequently from your computer’s operating system, and you should be able to discern which is appropriate.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 4, 2011

Many designers use storyboarding to communicate content and interaction to developers for eLearning lessons. This includes identifying where you want interactions and how you want the learner to be able to navigate through the pages (other than what might be in a template). Create placeholder pages for known content. --2--

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 2, 2013

While an attractive visual design and eye-catching interactions can help create a positive first impression of a lesson, its ability to teach learners to perform is what matters most. Designing eLearning for Cognitive Ease. Want to renew your focus on instructional design? Instructional design is at the heart of learning.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Designers also find themselves in the role of selling the value of social media interaction to their client organizations serving as consultants in this area. The learning is no longer taking place only from completing the course, but from the valued interaction with more experienced employees or with fellow learners.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 18, 2012

Highly interactive eLearning lessons that present relevant content in realistic contexts tend to be well received and effective. One common offense is using a multiple choice question when you really ought to use a different type of interaction. Let’s briefly look at two common multiple choice offenses to avoid.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 15, 2012

In the process, though, they learned new things from each other, which was the point of the course – interaction and collaboration. In addition, it would be a good idea to implement post-course interaction such as discussion of the new skills/concepts in a team meeting or creating action plans for implementation.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 25, 2013

Let’s take a look at a few ways QR codes can enhance learning: Instructor-led Training – Picture a classroom without paper – not too much of a stretch in today’s learning environment – where your participants are using tablets for their interactive participant guides. It truly adds an element of interactivity to your virtual training.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 23, 2011

A more realistic approach is to provide a screen image with a hotspot interaction. Or, even better, an interactive simulation of the entire workflow. But is this realistic? Do learners have to recognize screen and button names to perform correctly? Reinforce visual recognition and the actual behavior. How can we confirm realism?

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 19, 2011

New Interaction Metaphors and Terminology. Since there is no cursor on a modern touch screen device, there’s no hovering effect achieved when a cursor enters and exits an element like a button. All those nice button color changing effects and specialized actions trigged on mouse enter and exit won’t function correctly on a touch screen.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The theory also acknowledges the important role that social interaction plays in this. Requiring learners to use the discussion forum multiple times during the training and/or at suggested intervals after the training can help deepen the dialogue and enhance its interactivity. All this chatter prompts me to think about constructivism.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 16, 2013

The reason it is important to you may include your understanding of how learners interact with e-learning, your understanding of bandwidth issues, your understanding of how the change impacts the clients most important requirements, your experience with iPads versus desktop computer, and more. They are not.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 11, 2011

You can create simulations in several different ways, depending on the type of interaction you are looking for in your course. While this may be a good way to introduce system navigation, it lacks the interaction required for the learner to truly get “hands on” experience in using the system. Types of Simulations.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 14, 2013

Imagine starting a lesson with an actual story of a customer service representative – let’s call her Janie – who received a rave review from a customer who provided feedback on a particular interaction. The lesson might start with the customer’s kind words and how Janie felt about receiving the recognition.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 6, 2011

The Reporting Level area allows you the capability to show the score or the interactions and the score. Many, including Adobe Connect Pro, won’t be looking for the interactions level and will only report the score. Select if you want to report a score or a percentage in the LMS. This is dependent upon the LMS.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 4, 2011

Social interactions can also help. Details about context, circumstances, challenges, actions, and consequences allow an audience to infer an understanding that might be hard to articulate, but is understood nonetheless. You can include stories in eLearning via text, audio , and/or video.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Of course, it’s the programming we do with eLearning authoring tools that results in a polished, interactive learning product. A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning Rapid Development the Agile Way.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 25, 2012

Been asked to print out of a course loaded with Flash animations and interactivity. Lost a USB drive distributing courses by hand. Had to explain how to unzip a folder or find and open “index.html”. Then there is the issue of submitting and tracking feedback and change requests.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 18, 2011

If they are in a retail environment that uses mobile technology such as smartphones or tablets, why not provide them with these quick learning nuggets between customer interactions on their company -issued devices? This would allow them to remain on the sales floor and receive the training “on demand.”.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 26, 2011

We want to create learning environments where we can get people to be responsible for the whole learning experience by social interaction and support in learning new skills. We all learn from and rely on each other for our learning. eLearning and Geodesic Thinking.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 24, 2013

An interactive workbook for taking notes – We wrote a storyboard for what should be in the participant workbook, including places for participant note-taking. Let’s start with what I have experienced as important requirements.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 23, 2011

However, in that 10 years, here are a few of the learning advancements that I have experienced in my career: Transition from an overhead projector and transparencies to using a PC with PowerPoint and a connected projector Transition from CBT (computer-based training) courses on CD ROMs to internet-based WBT (web-based training) courses Alternatives (..)

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For example, people thrive off using social interaction to learn and make important decisions. While a video like this can be a little overly dramatic trying to sell social media, it does give you some things to think about. This is both in there personal life and career.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 18, 2009

The calendar is interactive so the user can change the date, view mode, and see details on events. It will not be visible until it is previewed in a web browser. Preview in a Web Browser. Previewing the project in a web browser will result in something similar to the following screen shot. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 11, 2012

Elements in your storyboard.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 14, 2010

The ability to interact with peers? Perhaps this effect can be mimicked by incorporating audio narration or an occasional video. Slides that are visually appealing and content that is written with some character can help too. This was addressed above. The variety of activities?

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Demonstrate right and wrong behavior – A great example of this would be for a retail sales organization where you can show video of a customer interacting with a sales associate. Video is effective in showing both correct and incorrect behavior, and the use of humor for the incorrect behaviors can be very effective!

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Sometimes however, as is often the case in eLearning, the call is to interact with a single page with no other goal than to absorb information. This creates a beautifully simple yet effective call to action statement, leading to an interactive experience. As an example of this, take a look at the site shown below. Source: [link].

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 15, 2011

Interactive Timeline. An interactive timeline (perhaps built with Flash) can also help capture attention with appealing visuals and by offering learners the ability to move the story forward. It also opens the door to a more informal writing style.even a bit humor. If you’re telling a story from a single perspective (i.e.,

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Also, Captivate 6 comes with a variety of interactions using the previously existing widget framework. These can provide for a more interactive knowledge transfer to learners. As an experienced developer, I would have liked to see improvements to the workflow surrounding interactivity. Disappointments.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 7, 2013

Level of interactivity. Wearing many hats is so common that organizations often don't hire the expertise they need for the other two areas that effect the cost of e-learning: graphics and multimedia and level of interactivity. Creating interactivity often requires the use of Flash or other skills that a web developer would have.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 16, 2012

With triggers, you can build simple or complex interactivity. It’s really amazing how quickly interactions like that can be created. Articulate Presenter was always a great product, but it lacked one key feature: variables that can be acted upon by actions. With only a very basic understanding of programming, the sky is the limit.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 30, 2011

Though highly interactive , problem-based eLearning can help maintain engagement, completing these activities usually requires learners to read words that we write. By Shelley A. Learners can be fickle, quickly slipping into distraction or boredom if we ask them to read too much.

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The same applies for all interactive elements in the training content. You can do this with style sheets or Javascript. Even better, have a glowing button that pulsates into a warm glow as the user hovers over it. You will need Flash for that. 2 - Use transitions consistently and effectively.

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