Consulting, Instructional Design, PowerPoint and Rapid eLearning

Why Today’s ELearning Can Stink

LearnDash

AUGUST 26, 2014

Elearning today is suffering from standards of the past, from instructional design principles to the tools we use to create the courses. For years, Articulate has been a juggernaut in the rapid elearning development space. To be fair, Articulate Storyline doesn’t necessarily rely upon PowerPoint.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of. 15 comments.

Rapid eLearning

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Are You a Bridge Building Course Designer?

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We discussed that a bit here in this post, Three Ways to Make Your E-Learning Content Meaningful. As an instructional designer, it’s up to you to be the bridge between the organization commissioning the course and the people who will be consuming it. The best way to do this is through performance consulting.

Design

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How to Get Rid of Locked E-Learning Courses

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

Compliance Training

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Key Steps in Building the Right Type of E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2022

One way to build the right type of course is to understand the types of courses typically created and where they fit in your e-learning ecosystem. If you’re a consultant who is getting paid by a company to build a course, odds are they’re expecting some sort of measurable impact. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Tell, Show, Do Plus Practice & Review to Build Effective Online Training

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2022

“Tell, Show, Do” is a common instructional design model. The model is a simple reminder that steers the course design away from the common content dump and focuses on the action in the learning, mainly the doing part. It rhymes and is another easy thing to remember about course design.

Simulations

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How to Pitch Course Design Ideas to Your Customer

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is where your performance consulting hat comes in. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Events October 24 (Las Vegas): 2023 Articulate User Conference. Free E-Learning Resources Want to learn more?

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Create an Amazon S3 Account to Share Courses for Free

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 1, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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How to Bring Value to Your Organization’s E-Learning Program

Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

Program

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Are You Going to Lose Your E-Learning Job?

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we design e-learning courses, we need to think about the overall objective of the training program and design our courses to meet that objective. All too often, I see courses that are nothing more than glorified and interactive PowerPoint slides. We build a lot of content that we call e-learning.

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Achieving the Perfect Balance: How to Keep Customers Satisfied and Build the Right Course!

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 28, 2023

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Events Check out the weekly training webinars to learn more about Rise , Storyline , and instructional design. Free E-Learning Resources Want to learn more? Getting Started?

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This is Funny Because E-Learning’s Broken

Rapid eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Events May 3-4 (London) : Learning Technologies. June 1 (Johannesburg) : 2023 Learning Indaba Conference. Check out the weekly training webinars to learn more about Rise , Storyline , and instructional design.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning

Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 The Rise of Rapid e-Learning Mike Alcock, MD of Atlantic Link Ltd has written an article over at Trainingzone.co.uk: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning.

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Create a Google Cloud Account to Share Courses for Free

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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What’s Wrong with Retrofitting an Accessible E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Challenges Retrofitting Accessible E-Learning. There’s a lot that goes into creating an e-learning course like consulting with subject matter experts, writing scripts, developing prototypes, presenting content to stakeholders, and iterating on the prototypes you have created. Want to learn more?

Compliance Training

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Here’s the Best Way to Make the Worst E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

This is when we need to put on our performance consulting hats. E-learning courses are a solution to meeting an objective. No organization says, “We need more e-learning!” Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Want to learn more?

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Is Your Client Happy with Your E-Learning Courses?

Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming Events. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills.

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The E-Learning Course is Done. Now What?

Rapid eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

This approach also encourages the collaborative and social learning experience. 5 Tips for Creating Better Blended Experiences Remember “Transition to e-Learning” Development Tools. My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture.

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Open the Learning Experience by Unlocking Your E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

Open

Open Course Assessment Rapid eLearning

Step Away from that Content

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Instructional design isn’t really that complicated. The challenge with a lot of e-learning is that courses are designed to be presentations of content, but not focused enough on the teaching and application. Content pasted into an authoring tool doesn’t make it a course or great learning experience.

Content

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Help Your Client Build the Right Type of E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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A Quick Tip on Developing Course Content

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 16, 2021

Put on the performance consulting hat to determine the real training needs. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills.

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4 Simple E-Learning Project Management Tips

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Three Ways to Save Time & Money in E-learning

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 1, 2021

And what happens is the instructional designer converts that content into a “course.” This helps them learn to use the existing resources they may need, and they’ll always know where to locate them after the training event. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

Articulate

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Is This a Problem with E-Learning Today?

Rapid eLearning

MAY 19, 2020

David Anderson shares a funny observation on how to be a consultant. There you go, consulting 101: if your design is skeuomorphic, you need flat. If your design is flat, try skeuomorphic. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Starting an E-Learning Project

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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This Site Will Help When Troubleshooting Your Courses

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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3 Production Tips for E-learning Developers

Rapid eLearning

APRIL 7, 2020

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate Roadshow: Learn more and register here. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Why You Need to Know Who’s the Boss of the E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Two questions: What types of things derail your e-learning projects? Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Learning Technologies. Want to learn more? February 12 & 13 (London).

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3 Keys to Building Effective Online Training

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 9, 2020

A lot of online training starts with pre-existing content, usually some policies, manuals, and PowerPoint presentations. The key is figuring out how to convert a lot of this content into an effective e-learning course. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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The Power of an E-Learning Portfolio

Rapid eLearning

JULY 13, 2021

Some people work in one-person shops where they need to know a little of everything and others can focus on one thing like instructional design or course development. Personally, I think e-learning skills should be like a liberal arts education where you touch a little of everything. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Do You Storyboard Your E-Learning Courses?

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rapid E-Learning Changed Things. A lot of this changed when we shifted from custom development in Flash and Authorware to Articulate Studio and PowerPoint. PowerPoint let me add all of the assets (or placeholders) and build animations quickly. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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A Simple Way to Work with Subject Matter Experts

Rapid eLearning

APRIL 23, 2019

Use a backwards design to get them to think like instructional designers. Rapid E-Learning Blog Resources. Here’s How to Help Your Subject Matter Experts Build Better E-Learning Courses. Myth 3: A Rapid E-Learning Tool in The Hands of Subject Matter Experts Is Not Good!

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Who’s Working on That E-Learning Course with You?

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Course Metrics Learning Objects Expert

Help Your E-Learning Customers Understand HTML5

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 18, 2020

How to Transcribe Text into PowerPoint & E-Learning Courses. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate Roadshow: Learn more and register here. Want to learn more?

Flash to HTML5 Conversion

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Are You Making This Mistake with Your E-Learning?

Rapid eLearning

MAY 4, 2021

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

Compliance Training

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Do You Have the Skills to Succeed?

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

In a recent post, I shared my recent webinar with the E-Learning Guild and some of the conversation we had around rapid elearning. Rapid E-Learning Developers Wear Many Hats. When I first started with elearning we’d have a team of people working on projects. Instructional design.

Authoring Tools

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How to Create Performance-based E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And how you approach the design of it is different than just pushing out information. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Learning Technologies. Want to learn more? February 12 & 13 (London).

Sexual Harassment Training

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Essentials of Interactive E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 20, 2017

Basic Course Design. We discussed this in the post on what every new instructional designer should know. If you focus on the activities and not the information, you’ll most likely built more effective, engaging, and interactive e-learning. FocusOn Learning conference. Want to learn more?

Interactive

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Here Are Your E-learning Tips for 2017

Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2017

After ten years, most of the posts are still relevant but some are obsolete like using clip art in PowerPoint. The key point was that it didn’t matter what underlying technology drove the content, the next generation course designer could build e-elearning with no programming skills required.

Authoring Tools

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How to Help Your Clients Built Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

Metrics

Metrics Compliance Training Help Compliance

Are You Qualified to Build E-Learning Courses?

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.

Rapid eLearning

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Subject Matter Experts But Was Afraid to Ask

Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Essential Guide to Working with Subject Matter Experts (free e-book). 9 Steps to Better E-Learning Project Management (free e-book). E-Learning Course Development Agreement. List of Reviewers for E-learning Projects. Rapid E-Learning Blog Resources. Want to learn more?

Expert

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Why Today’s ELearning Can Stink

5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

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Are You a Bridge Building Course Designer?

How to Get Rid of Locked E-Learning Courses

Key Steps in Building the Right Type of E-Learning Course

Tell, Show, Do Plus Practice & Review to Build Effective Online Training

How to Pitch Course Design Ideas to Your Customer

Create an Amazon S3 Account to Share Courses for Free

How to Bring Value to Your Organization’s E-Learning Program

Are You Going to Lose Your E-Learning Job?

Achieving the Perfect Balance: How to Keep Customers Satisfied and Build the Right Course!

This is Funny Because E-Learning’s Broken

Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning

Create a Google Cloud Account to Share Courses for Free

What’s Wrong with Retrofitting an Accessible E-Learning Course

Here’s the Best Way to Make the Worst E-Learning Course

Is Your Client Happy with Your E-Learning Courses?

The E-Learning Course is Done. Now What?

Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Open the Learning Experience by Unlocking Your E-Learning Course

Step Away from that Content

Help Your Client Build the Right Type of E-Learning Course

A Quick Tip on Developing Course Content

4 Simple E-Learning Project Management Tips

Three Ways to Save Time & Money in E-learning

Is This a Problem with E-Learning Today?

Starting an E-Learning Project

This Site Will Help When Troubleshooting Your Courses

3 Production Tips for E-learning Developers

Why You Need to Know Who’s the Boss of the E-Learning Course

3 Keys to Building Effective Online Training

The Power of an E-Learning Portfolio

Do You Storyboard Your E-Learning Courses?

A Simple Way to Work with Subject Matter Experts

Who’s Working on That E-Learning Course with You?

Help Your E-Learning Customers Understand HTML5

Are You Making This Mistake with Your E-Learning?

Do You Have the Skills to Succeed?

How to Create Performance-based E-Learning

Essentials of Interactive E-Learning

Here Are Your E-learning Tips for 2017

How to Help Your Clients Built Better E-Learning

Are You Qualified to Build E-Learning Courses?

Everything You Wanted to Know About Subject Matter Experts But Was Afraid to Ask

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