Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

A lot of rapid elearning hinges on PowerPoint. To help you learn more about PowerPoint I pulled together a solid list of PowerPoint resources. From The Rapid E-Learning Blog. Here are a few posts that cover some of the essentials tips and tricks required for successful PowerPoint-based rapid elearning.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 15, 2012

In a recent post I made this comment about rapid elearning tools: Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. The same goes for elearning.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2011

The Articulate Community team uses Screenr every day. It’s great for quick hit, just-in-time learning. We also use it a lot for internal collaboration and communication. Obviously, these solutions aren’t going to work for every organization, but they are good solutions that are easy to implement and cost-effective.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the following image, you can see my mocked up screen and one way I could use it for an elearning course. It’s not a verbatim copy of the website, but as you look it over you’ll notice many similarities and how I worked elements of the web design into my rapid elearning template. August 30 : Honolulu, HI ( ASTD Hawaii ).

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Rapid elearning design is made up of three core functions: rapid authoring, rapid assets, and rapid instructional design. In the visual design activity , you learn how to determine what screen elements to use; but you don’t learn how to create those elements. Take Advantage of the Free Stuff.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 12, 2012

Typically elearning courses start from existing content. The guiding principle for rapid elearning design is to be intentional. If you can answer those questions you’re on your way to building effective elearning. July 18: Knoxville, TN ( Smoky Mountain ASTD ). July 25: Portland, OR (ASTD).

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

How we view effective elearning is somewhat subjective. For some it requires that all elearning center on performance. If it’s not, then how can it be effective? However, many elearning courses are less “learning” and more marketing. They’re about sharing information using elearning tools.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In fact, that type of interactivity is an important part of building effective and interactive elearning courses. Interactive E-Learning Courses: Create an Immersive Experience. A key component while building interactive elearning courses is to craft an immersive experience. Community Blog Posts & Tutorials.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2011

I get lots of questions from those who are just getting started with rapid elearning. They want to know what they can do to build good elearning. Learn more: If you’re an Articulate user, there are two good books and the user community with hundreds of tutorials and thousands of active members. Make it meaningful.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Odds are that during the summer months elearning wasn’t on the top of your list. So I decided to weed through some rapid elearning information and pull out a few posts that you may have missed. And of course, there are some free PowerPoint elearning templates, too. Handpicked E-Learning Tutorials.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If you do those three things you’re on your way to effective and interactive elearning. What challenges do you find when trying to move from linear elearning to courses that are more interactive? Rapid E-Learning Workshop. October 17 : Bloomington, IL ( CIC-ASTD ). Rapid E-Learning Design Workshop.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

That’s something that elearning can’t always do effectively. And it’s quite effective in sharing information. The interactive part of the learning experience happens in the classroom and with any papers the students have to write. Sure you can sit on a soapbox and lament the decline of effective learning because of this.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

To create the light effect, use a shape filled with semi-transparent white. If you find it a challenge to create the light effect, just skip it. Tidbits: Here’s a list of upcoming conferences and presentations: September 15 : Lincoln, NE (ASTD)— Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro. $80 Details to follow.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The easiest thing to do is create an objectives screen like one above where you tell the learner what the objective is and what they should learn. It also may not be the most effective way. Not sure how to rework the learning objectives in the elearning course you’re building? Louis (ASTD). Details coming.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! PowerPoint for Rapid E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

At that point he could have determined the most effective solution for meeting his goals. It’s really an issue with a lot of training and elearning programs. It’s easy to be seduced by solutions because these seem tangible and active, especially with the simple and quick authoring of rapid elearning tools. No problem.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 4, 2010

It’s a fact that you CAN build effective elearning with rapid elearning tools. All it requires is that you craft a sound learning strategy and get the most out of your tools. To demonstrate this, I deconstructed an effective elearning course originally built in Flash and then built a mock up in PowerPoint.

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 12/05/2010 e-Learning Glossaries Think about e-Learning. Therefore, I have created the following list of e-learning glossaries.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 4, 2011

E-learning courses are an intrusion to the natural learning process. With good planning, it’s a welcome intrusion because we can compress time and create cost-effective and repeatable learning events. I’ll be presenting on building communities and how to build elearning courses with limited resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 1, 2010

If you want more details, one of the community MVPs shared some tips on how to improve your audio quality. Today I want to share some free or inexpensive ways to work with the audio in your elearning courses. Sometimes we need background music or sound effects. Here are a few sites that offer sound effects and free music.

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Trivantis

APRIL 19, 2012

Community Forum. e-Learning Authoring Software Made Easy. Web-based Collaborative e-Learning Authoring. Affordable Rapid e-Learning. Affordable Rapid e-Learning. -->. Free resources to help you with all learning topics. Community Forum. e-Learning Webinars.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 7, 2015

Boring instruction ranges in effectiveness, but resides in the area of a total waste of time to an unfortunate loss of opportunity. Learnnovators: You were part of many studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning to change behavior. How do you think your community is driving innovations in your products?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

She raised the question about e-Learning content and how well companies keep track of content updates. Can you prove when and how your e-Learning content has changed? As an e-Learning vendor, I think its our responsibility to make sure that our clients have thought this through. Is that true?)

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 1, 2011

But the reality is that most of a person’s learning happens in the time before and after the elearning course. We looked at this briefly in a previous post, Ignore This Post If You Don’t Care About Effective Learning. Motivated to Learn : How do you get people interested in what you have to offer?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

So I continued through the magazine, challenging myself to find at least 10 graphic design ideas I could use in an elearning course. I also created some tutorials to show how to create some of the effects in PowerPoint. Once you learn to do the effect, you’re not limited to just using circles. And following are the tips.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 21, 2012

When building rapid elearning with PowerPoint it can be a challenge to get away from linear courses. I did it as a challenge because someone told me that you can’t build effective and engaging elearning with PowerPoint. Tutorial: learn to build the overhead office interaction. Rapid E-Learning Interactions.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/02/2011 Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011 2011 is the e-Learning year! The project is hosted at Google Code.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => > Resources Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Improving the Odds of Effective Collaborative Work in Online Courses Joanna C.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 8, 2015

Boring instruction ranges in effectiveness, but resides in the area of a total waste of time to an unfortunate loss of opportunity. Learnnovators: You were part of many studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning to change behavior. How do you think your community is driving innovations in your products?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Ive been working as an instructional designer in the corporate training and e-learning field since the mid-1990s. For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs). The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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eFront

JULY 12, 2010

Before CSS3 we would need to work with images or javascript to produce a round box effect. Actually, there are dozens of wide spread techniques to produce the round corner effect (for example, check [link] ) – which by its turn is a clear signal that there is no perfect solution.

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eFront

JUNE 1, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 6/01/2010 Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3 The Community and Community++ users will not witness many differences on the course infrastructure. eFront 3.6.3

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 17, 2007

On the other hand, a little levity and humor can make training less stressful and -- perhaps -- more effective. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2007

There are plenty of opportunities for learning: usually its at least one lesson a day in patience and deep-breathing. e-Learning creeps into the world of parenting. Through blogging and access to this wonderful community beyond the walls of my office, Ive started to get passionate again about my work.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

(David) There will be 9x more smart phones in 2011 than there are today (PDAs, blackberries) M-Learning supports best practices in pedagogy (being able to reinforce content) Just-in-time vs. formal learning From mobile consumer to mobile producer Its a key issue to be able to integrate with many back-end business systems. Many thanks!

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 12, 2011

Starting with PowerPoint 2007, there are many features that make the rapid elearning process much more efficient. I detailed some of those features in this post on why PowerPoint 2007 helps you build better elearning. PowerPoint lets me add all sorts of cool effects and shadows. October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar.

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