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The budget didn’t fail your low-budget eLearning. What else did? Your enthusiasm to use all of it.

Eat Learn Repeat

Stock Images? The most commonly used theory when someone cannot afford something costly is to try to mimic it with a cheaper alternative. While GoAnimate itself is a cheaper alternative to complex Flash-based character animations, it’s funny that we try to get it a lot cheaper using stock images. Oh, I love them!

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eLearning: Putting it Into Context

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Robinson made the point that brains can have weird triggers. Instead of drilling home the point about age of depression on-set, adding the baseball game to the lesson might cause the brain to relate the information to baseball.

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Illustration and Animation: The Icing and the Cake

eLearningMind

That’s because brains love to track movement, see pictures, and follow stories: it’s how it was designed. They are expressive and timeless enough to be an alternative to using human models or stock photography (whose style often quickly looks outdated). Why use illustrations and animation in eLearning?

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Free learning & development webinars for July 2023

Limestone Learning

This session will cover tools for finding, creating and editing images, icons, illustrations, stock and animated video, as well as audio content. They often are left-brain, analytics types who lack the right-brain emotional intelligence DNA. Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 In some ways, it’s not their fault.

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Pope sells Vatican to Google

Jay Cross

. Capitalism’s epicenter and holy shrine, the New York Stock Exchange , has a new owner! For more than 200 years, brokers who knew one another performed all buying and selling of stocks and bonds face-to-face. A guy in Atlanta bought it. This is like Disney buying the Capitol or the Israelis buying Mecca. Unthinkable.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Second Life is not a teaching tool Tool Set 2009 New Design for My Smile Sheet The art of changing the brain Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Social Media makes this course stand out Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? Tools - A Summary PR 2.0:

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Talking eLearning ROI

Web Courseworks

For us so-called “right-brained” creatives working in the world of instructional design and eLearning, that isn’t always easy to do. Admit what you don’t know, and seek out a “left-brained” numbers person to help you organize and present the nitty gritties of the business plan.

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