The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Diane Elkins and Daw Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs. Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Subject matter experts or SMEs are usually an indispensable part of a learning development team.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2017

What can we provide to ensure we support them to do their best. What do narrators need in a script? Do they want to be called narrators, voice actors, voice talent or voice artist? These questions and more are answered in this episode.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Designing the appropriate type of practice and providing effective feedback requires a lot of know-how. Patti Shank, PhD., has been studying the research on this topic and wrote a book about it.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

She provides lots of relevant advice to learning experience designers who write stories, scenarios and vignettes for instructional purposes. Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story, is passionate about the power and value of stories for learning.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

These have the potential for providing a rich and broad learning experience. These have the potential for providing a rich and broad learning experience. Find out how to design a learning environment to fulfill a specific need. Post from: The eLearning Coach ELC 019: Shifting To Learning Environments. Podcasts'

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 19, 2017

When they focus on the goal of meeting your objectives (rather than personal likes and dislikes), they may provide some of the most valuable feedback you can get. Design critiques, whether formal or informal, can be a valuable tool in your toolbox.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 20, 2013

Three books that provide a fascinating look at the the brain and neuroscience. Post from: The eLearning Coach Three Brainy Books Reviewed. Cognition'

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

With a little effort though, we can transform the default approach into one that provides a delightful experience. The default user interface in typical eLearning is problematic. It is based on a book-like model and uses dated user interface elements.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

Provide options. Even if you provide a suggested order, allow learners to take lessons in a sequence that works for them. Provide resources, references, videos and podcasts to create an ideal environment for personal exploration. Provide opportunities for group discussion, collaboration and group problem solving.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

Provide options. Even if you provide a suggested order, allow learners to take lessons in a sequence that works for them. Provide resources, references, videos and podcasts to create an ideal environment for personal exploration. Provide opportunities for group discussion, collaboration and group problem solving.

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 18, 2016

One of the reasons I fell in love with the field of instructional design is that it requires an analytical mindset, yet provides ample opportunities for creative expression. One morning you may be deep into an instructional analysis and in the afternoon, you might be ideating a creative treatment.

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Yet these same people are often responsible for providing us with course content and may be decision-makers when it comes to course design. Many in our field work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who aren’t familiar with the body of knowledge associated with learning.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Provides one visual standard for an entire course, curriculum or company. Provides a reference for future courses if you want to re-use the design. Provides a way to get buy-in from your client. In either situation, here are some benefits of writing an eLearning visual style guide. Forces you to make up-front design decisions.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Book recommendations that provide inspiration, examples and guidelines for visualizing concepts, information and data. Post from: The eLearning Coach 10 Books Of Visual Ideas.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 21, 2011

Leveraging mobile is an ideal way to remind learners of what they have been previously taught by providing follow-up materials as reinforcement. Learners can be given access to small chunks of content which provide reminders immediately at the point of need. The device-specific applications provide the same level of tracking.

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 1, 2015

It''s helpful to take a break and stop to see if there are better tools that will make our jobs easier, more fun, or provide inspiration. We often labor away using the same tools and techniques we''ve always used. This is one way to get in a rut. Post from: The eLearning Coach 12 eLearning Related Tools You May Not Know.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But now that technology offers so many varied options, a blended approach has evolved to mean the use of more than one delivery method to provide and enhance training and support. Originally, blended learning referred to adding an online component to instructor-led training or classroom education. This is the way of the future.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 3, 2015

He specializes in instructional media production and online learning environment design, and provides consultation and workshops. He consults with and provides professional development to schools and districts. Abbie Brown is Professor at East Carolina University, teaching in the Instructional Technology Program.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 23, 2010

For example, text to speech software is certainly a viable approach for providing accessibility to visually impaired persons. Loquendo is a multilingual text to speech engine with high-quality voices that even provide emotional emphasis. But there are times when this option is worth exploring. TTS is a way to overcome these obstacles.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Online image editors and other multimedia production tools provide access to a host of new and often less expensive applications. While online applications for webinars, presentations and mind maps provide new ways to learn and collaborate online. Open Source Software. Some organizations forget to add in the costs of customization.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The pre-built templates provide a way to quickly assemble an interaction or presentation segment and publish it to a Flash (.swf) The full Raptivity library of around a dozen products provides over 225 presentation and interactive templates for various audience groups. swf) format. Some of the templates in the Raptivity Essential Pack.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2009

This book is an excellent introduction to online user interface design, providing the background, thought processes and uses for just about every type of user interface element you can imagine. Apply this knowledge to your eLearning courses to provide a richer user experience. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. Sound familiar?

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 1, 2010

Ensure feedback provides solid information and is phrased in an encouraging way. Using collaborative tools and social media can help learners build relationships, cooperate on tasks, and provide support and feedback to each other. You can provide humor in an unexpected moment or add an unusual twist to generic scenarios.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 11, 2011

One thing to remember when you’re designing a mobile app is that you can provide updates in the future, allowing for a phased approach. I sincerely hope it provides value to the practitioners and students who use it. Around 460 terms and several bleary-eyed months later, I knew it was time to stop. Designing a Simple Concept.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

And how Universal Design is the path that provides the best access to digital products for the widest audience. In this conversation with accessibility experts Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery, they explain how all users win when we design for accessibility first.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning. This software provides a way to centralize and manage blogs within an institution by hosting them all on one domain. Edublogs Campus. MindMeister.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment.

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The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Then the announcer, as if reading my mind, provided the answer. Games provide immediate feedback unlike a test or a quiz which requires time for an instructor to grade and return. They provide a context for the learning that can be highly realistic for knowledge transfer. I wondered, “How can that be?&#

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2009

For this particular course, we’ll remove content that can’t be remembered and provide it as reference material. It opens new worlds, provides new skills, changes attitudes and helps people advance in their careers. Personally, I even have a prepared speech about the limits of what people can retain.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 30, 2010

This free 90-minute lunchtime webinar provides you with the unique opportunity to engage in discussion with two of the world’s leading instructional design practitioners in Cathy Moore, from the USA, and the UK’s own Patrick Dunn. Date: April 19, 2010. Time: 12 noon BST (British Summer Time); 7:00 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).

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The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Thinking through what a particular audience group needs and how they will react as they proceed through a course provides a tangible focus for the design. In the end, you should have several personas that provide a tangible sense of your audience members. Creating personas can help designers become more aware of their audience.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. Elgg provides a private integrated suite of social media tools—within a seamless environment for individuals to use for their own personal learning and for groups to use for formal or informal learning purposes.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Also, as a Regular member, you are not provided with exercise files that go along with each course. Although the exercise files are not required for using the tutorials, they do provide a way to continue learning and exploring after completing the course. These files are reserved for Premium members.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Other people are providing the context and the need, even if they’re not in the room. Coach: Are there advantages to informal collaborative learning as compared to informal individualized learning? Jay: Learning is social. Most learning is collaborative. Relative advantages would depend on the nature of what’s being learned.

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The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Adults in the workplace prefer practical knowledge and experiences that will make work easier or provide important skills. They prefer to partake in learning activities that help them reach their goals. In other words, adults need personal relevance in learning activities. Competence and mastery.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 19, 2010

Low-fidelity graphics can be more effective for learning when you need to: Provide an explanation to people with limited knowledge of the content. From left to right - a continuum of high fidelity to low fidelity graphics. Low-fidelity Graphics and Learning. Focus only on essential details. Ensure viewers recognize an object quickly.

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