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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THE WRITERS GATEWAY AUGUST 16, 2010 T-Bite: Top 10 Resources for Learning Professionals In this post, I would like to list those blogs and websites that provide learning professionals with lot of useful information absolutely free of cost. There are umpteen web resources on Instructional Design, learning and training. However there are very few blogs, networks and websites that give you really useful information. Hope you find this list useful! | THE WRITERS GATEWAY JULY 22, 2010 Instructional Design Review Checklists – Key to Quality E-learning It is even better to provide Instructional Design Review checklists to Instructional Designers just when they are about start storyboarding. In any e-learning development company, storyboards and e-learning courses go through rounds of testing to ensure desired quality levels. You should find a lot of blog posts on e-learning testing. All these articles talk about the importance of usability testing, learnability testing for e-learning courses. During Instructional Design review, you analyse storyboards to check the following: Is the course meeting the instructional objectives? | | | | | | | THE WRITERS GATEWAY JANUARY 19, 2010 Learning in 3D is Fascinating! You must provide opportunity for demonstrating learning. I get surprised when I hear people buying virtual stuff. always wonder why they do it and what kind of satisfaction they must be getting in buying things that they cannot touch and feel. Well, I realize I am not quite different from those people. When I bought my cottage, I felt as if I had bought it in real life. Its worth it. Check | THE WRITERS GATEWAY JUNE 28, 2010 A Case for Templatized E-learning Content There are quite a few departments and quite a few SMEs who provide medical content in the form of PowerPoint presentations which are not self-contained. Provide SMEs with quality checklists and guidelines that helps them meet quality criteria and also evaluate the quality of their PowerPoint presentations. If you have checked my Linkedin profile , you must be knowing that I have positioned myself as an e-learning consultant now. One of my recent efforts have been towards helping the e-learning division in a top-notch medical institution solve their problems. Objective. Reasons? | THE WRITERS GATEWAY DECEMBER 5, 2012 What Kind of Instructional Design Do You Do? It is more important to provide the right information, in an understandable language in a short time than anything else just to help learners do their job. Ask 3 different people, the question : What is Instructional Design? Now compare and contrast the responses. am sure you will be amazed at the different perspectives you get. As far as I know, Instructional Design exists in different forms and Instructional Design might mean different things to different people. How you perceive/describe Instructional Design depends on your: Location/Context. Nature of work you do. Scenario 1. | THE WRITERS GATEWAY MAY 5, 2010 Is the Mute ON/OFF Button Ruining Your E-learning Course? That’s why a lot of e-learning courses these days provide Mute ON/OFF button so that the learner can choose to either listen or read. As mentioned earlier, most e-learning courses these days provide this toggle button using which you can choose to turn on or off the voice-over. You must have heard experts say that voice-over used in e-learning must never read on-screen text. | | | | | | | | | -
THE WRITERS GATEWAY | TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010 Clarity of Expectations – The Key to Effective Training Programs It took months for me to get the water- providers to consistently put the pitcher by my mother. Recently Linda Williams posted a discussion in the PINOT network. Linda in this discussion item talks about the importance of clarity of expectations. Let me repost the discussion here for you to quickly read it without signing into the network. Linda Williams: The last two years of my mother’s life she was in a nursing facility and I visited her practically every day. The pitcher was always left by the sink in the room. Like clockwork, the pitchers were filled. There is no learning. MORE >>
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