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I’m Writing a Second Edition of The eLearning Designer’s Handbook!

Tim Slade

It was nearly five years ago when I started thinking about writing a book to share everything I knew about designing and developing eLearning. At the time, the mear thought of writing my own book seemed like an enormous task, and it was! In fact, it wasn’t my first time working on a book. So let’s do it!

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Corporate elearning vs educational elearning

Elucidat

But elearning can offer much more than convenience. Read on to find out why corporate elearning should be part of every business strategy and how to ensure it delivers real impact at speed and scale. What is corporate elearning? Corporate elearning can come in different formats and take all kinds of approaches.

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Top 5 books every elearning designer should read

Elucidat

We’ve pulled together the top five books every elearning designer should read, with help from our Elucidat community. These five books cover all the bases, from how people learn, to what makes learning and habits stick, and how to design with these elements in mind. All these books are pacy, practical, and actionable.

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Learning theories

Ed App

Five Current Learning Theories. Learning theories unpack complex cognitive processes and provide useful mental models for educators to structure and design courses around, while also providing insights on best practice during and after learning experiences. Five Learning Theories. Behaviorism. Educational theorists such as B.F.

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How Research Informs My Work

Experiencing eLearning

If you’re not active in L&D Twitter, you might have missed the big debate recently about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals. Good instructional writing is “practical application that is grounded in theory,” to borrow a phrase from Judy Katz.

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8 Must-Read Neurolearning™ Books

eLearningMind

Neurolearning isn’t just the hot topic du jour or a corporate buzzword to throw around in meetings. Instead, Neurolearning is a combination of learning theory and neuroscience; a complicated study of how the brain (and the nervous system) works and reacts to stimuli and situations. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

Professor of Literature and mythologist Joseph Campbell was the first to formally identify the archetypal protagonist’s pattern in his 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Why Use Storytelling In Corporate Training? When you use storytelling in corporate training, you reap the following big benefits: Creating Connection.