Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here are three time-saving tips to consider before building your e-learning course. Many e-learning courses are 4:3 aspect ratio. The other common aspect ratio is 16:9. However, you’re not confined to either one of those aspect ratios. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Or perhaps square?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Train Your Client On Training&# Elfreda Chenauls March 5, 2011 at 2:27 am # Hello this is a unique article. He ends the blog with this key message: The goal is to build a course appropriate to your client’s needs.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

Check out these links for more insight on the topic: [link] [link] [link] And in case you read through this entire article in the hopes of hearing the song by Simon & Garfunkel, and are now really upset, here you go: Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile Learning?

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. Fortunately, the question Why persists, and I am beginning to better understand why (and how) we should incorporate games in learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 22, 2018

Get the Aspect Ratio of Popular Devices for Responsive Courses. Even if you don’t use the responsive emulators, it’s still an easy way to get the aspect ratios and resolutions of the popular mobile devices. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general. Beth’s experience looking for work as a private contractor exposed her to the current temporary staffing boom.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning. They’re not really designed for elearning courses. This means that you’ll have to create your own templates that work better with the rapid elearning software. You’re best article yet.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. And contrary to my statement in the third paragraph, hopefully we’re not too far off.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). Facebook dominates the United States, and Europe and Latin America aren’t far behind.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). Facebook dominates the United States, and Europe and Latin America aren’t far behind.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

TweetDeck – I recently read an article stating that if you aren’t salaried by a big company to generate brand new ideas, it’s a waste of your time to do so. I saved the #sociallearning and #instructionaldesign categories and access them on a regular basis to see who is saying what about these subjects.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. And contrary to my statement in the third paragraph, hopefully we’re not too far off.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The video I create in PowerPoint is the exact same aspect ratio as the Storyline file. But if you change the aspect ratio of your.story file make sure you do the same on the PowerPoint slide. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

The default PowerPoint slide is 16 x 9 aspect ratio. If you aren’t using a graphics editor or don’t know how, then PowerPoint is a really easy way to build graphics for you e-learning courses. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Click here to view the elearning interaction. Free E-Learning Interaction Template. Here’s a link to the free elearning interaction template. It’s created in Storyline 2 and uses a 16×9 aspect ratio. Let me know if you use the free e-learning interaction template. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 24, 2018

A circle has a 1:1 aspect ratio. Hope that helps and is something you can use in an upcoming e-learning course. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 25, 2017

The fix is to drag it from the corner to scale it and preserve its aspect ratio. If you want to learn more check out the visual design tips in the e-learning community, download this free e-book , and join us at one of our Roadshow workshops. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A truly excellent article by Matt Thompson, titled An Antidote for Web Overload , addresses the reasons behind Wikipedia’s increasing replacement of traditional news sites as the go-to source for breaking news items.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Learning what you need to know, when you need to know it 2. Here’s why.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Here are a few considerations: By default the course size is a 4:3 aspect ratio set at 720×540 pixels. This is a good aspect ratio and the course can be set to scale with the browser, so pixel width isn’t as big of an issue. The image below shows the 4:3 aspect ratio with a sidebar menu. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 2, 2019

With this particular menu, I needed an image that had a 10:3 aspect ratio. The aspect ratio calculator is a good resource if you ever need to figure out an aspect ratio or the resolution of images. The short but wide aspect ratio creates a challenging constraint with what you can show. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

That and 4:3 are the most common aspect ratios. I do this quite a bit when I need to quickly build graphics for my e-learning courses. For example, the flashcard interaction in Rise is a 1:1 aspect ratio. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Create Custom-Sized PowerPoint Slides.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2018

Most them work perfectly in one of two aspect ratios: 1:1 (square). Since there are two aspect ratios, I create two PowerPoint files for my Rise graphics. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. Register here.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0 What Training Costs Part I: Converting Content from ILT to WBT How long does it take to create learning? When you look at these, you will come up with various ratios and costs.

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