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Adapting Resumes from Teaching to Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

When adapting resumes for instructional design jobs, it’s important to focus on experiences like curriculum creation and collaboration rather than teaching. Instead of starting with teaching and training (even though those are the skills you use the most), put creating lesson plans and curriculum first. Example Revision.

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Free eLearning calculator helps determine your development effort

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

One of the most common questions we hear during our live, online eLearning classes is, "How long does it typically take to create eLearning using Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, or TechSmith Camtasia?" is the training teaching a life skill, a software simulation, or a video demo? how much help do you have?

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TEACHING ONLINE CLASSES: Interactive Polls Help End Sucky Training

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

When I start my classes, displaying a poll is a great way to break the ice and get my class started on the right foot.   One of the easiest ways to engage online students is by displaying quizzes and polls.   Most virtual training platforms (GoToTraining, WebEx, Connect, etc) allow you to create polls within the tool.

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How To Handle Teaching Large Online Classes

eLearning Industry

Teaching online brings many challenges but these are further complicated when the class is large. How do you cope with hundreds of online students at once? Let's go over some tips. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Teach Cooking Online, Part III: Marketing

LearnDash

Don’t miss Part I: “ Finding Your Angle ” or Part II: “ Live Teaching.”. Suddenly, instead of optimizing for “online cooking classes” like the rest of your peers, you can optimize for “online dairy-free, gluten-free wedding cake decoration classes.” How do you spread the word?

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Should You Take an Online Course Before You Teach One?

LearnDash

But despite its rising popularity, many adults haven’t yet taken an online course—even though they may be interested in teaching one. The chess course (quite naturally) made heavy use of gamification, while the MOOC economics class relied on open forum discussions. The post Should You Take an Online Course Before You Teach One?

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Teaching Virtual Classes: Get People Talking

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Connecting with the instructor/facilitator and the other students/participants plays a huge role in online class engagement. When you are the virtual instructor, make sure you are fostering this connection in your classes. Ask them to help you teach the class! Would you like to get up here and teach the class?” 

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