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How to Design Performance-Based eLearning Interactions

Tim Slade

One of the most important lessons I learned when I first started designing and developing eLearning courses was the importance of building performance-based eLearning interactions. When I first started as an eLearning designer, I remember being constantly reminded of the importance of making my eLearning content interactive.

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Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design

The eLearning Coach

If you don't have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen explains how to apply a behavior change model to instructional design. Sometimes, you may not have an appropriate tool or strategy to solve a learning design problem.

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Teacher to Instructional Designer Interview Questions

Experiencing eLearning

I received a question from a classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview and what instructional designer interview questions to expect. How would your skills transfer from teaching to instructional design?

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Learning And Behavior Change: Part 1

eLearning Industry

BJ Fogg's research indicates that there are three elements playing primary roles in successful behavior change: B = MAP. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why Most eLearning Fails: How to Create eLearning that Gets Results

Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, and Creator of The eLearning Designer's Academy

In this session, we will explore many of the reasons why most eLearning fails and the components that contribute to bad eLearning design. we will also explore how bad eLearning design can negatively affect the learning experience. Why good eLearning requires more than instructional design.

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L&D SHOULD THINK LIKE MARKETING – BUT DO WE UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE?

Learnnovators

The similarities are all too obvious: L&D and marketing are both trying to change behavior. By following effective persuasion techniques, marketers convince you to alter your belief and to start a new behavior (or stop an existing one). Just like marketing, L&D also focuses on behavior change (via persuasion).

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EMPATHY – FRIEND NOT FOE IN INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Learnnovators

I recently came across this article* titled “ Why I Don’t Believe in Empathic Design ” by Don Norman. Now, in case you aren’t aware, Don Norman is the father of human-centered design, who literally coined the term ‘user experience’. And among his many, many accolades is his seminal book “The Design of Everyday Things”.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.