Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But what do you do if you want some graphics or illustrations to go with your Rise 360 courses? They look nice and they’re free to use for commercial projects. Here’s why I think these free illustrations work well with Rise 360. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

Here are some free images and resources to help with your training programs. And here’s a link for different ways to give credit and attribution for the free resources. Free Coronavirus Stock Photos. These stock photos are provided courtesy of Icons8. They’re free to use. Free Coronavirus Icons.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When it comes to courses, there are two key stakeholders: the person who commissions the course, and the person who consumes it. Each of these stakeholders has their own objectives and needs for the course, and ensuring that these are met can be challenging. The best way to do this is through performance consulting.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Quick Microlearning Course for Creating AI Illustrated Characters I used Rise 360 to put together a simple course that shows the process I go through to create the free illustrated characters I’ve been sharing. Click here to view the course. Free E-Learning Resources Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

I often see community members asking how to lock down a course. The reason for this is that people want to make sure learners see everything in the course. This is especially important in compliance training, where the goal is to ensure that everyone takes the course and is exposed to all the material. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 15, 2021

I love free icons and illustrations that can be used in e-learning. What’s cool is that the icons are open source and free to use in commercial projects without any attribution requirement. Why are the icons free? ” How do I give credit for the free icons? What can I share for free?

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is important to manage the customer relationship while building courses, as customers may not always know what they want. Customers often default to building more training as a solution to issues, but course designers need to step in and provide the best solution. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2023

We’ve all been there, building courses where we don’t have much say in the content. You know the ones I’m talking about – those compliance courses or those annual refreshers that are driven by content more so than performance. Not everyone needs to go through the entire course. Context is king.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

You built an e-learning course and the client is happy. There’s a lot that happens between getting the course uploaded and then delivered to those who need to consume it. Once a course is built, it needs to be rolled out to its intended audience. Where is the course housed? Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ever wonder how to present e-learning course ideas to your customers? I had a conversation the other day with someone who was presented with a somewhat boring course project. This is a common challenge because the easiest course to build is the linear, explainer type course with information and next buttons.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2023

Many e-learning developers create multiple courses, but these courses are often very similar in content. Instead of building different courses, they are essentially building the same course repeatedly. However, they were unsure of which organizations are producing these types of courses and where to look.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

Visually branding your e-learning courses is a common requirement. A great way to figure out how to brand the course is by mimicking what’s available publicly from the organization’s website (and intranet). Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2022

From an ideal perspective, when we build courses, we’re trying to change performance and not just share a bunch of information. That means we need a course design model that goes beyond content-sharing. One common approach for online course design is the Tell, Show, and Do model. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 28, 2023

This is a common problem in our industry and the reason a lot of e-learning courses (and training programs for that matter) are ineffective. You’ve built enough courses to anticipate some of the issues that arise or common obstacles. Be confident in explaining your ideas and why they are suitable for the course.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” I say this all the time when building courses. The course we’re building exists to help meet the performance objective; but the course itself is not the objective. This takes us back to what we discussed earlier: the problem of locking the course navigation. Or how do we know they are learning?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2022

The objective of an e-learning program is to be effective by creating the best courses possible with the resources at hand. From what I see, most e-learning courses are simple, explainer-type content. However, many of those courses tend to be overbuilt with superfluous interactivity.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 31, 2020

Of course your e-learning software comes with a great assortment of e-learning templates and characters to use in your online training courses. But, really, who doesn’t like additional free illustrations to use in e-learning courses? Free Illustrations for E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

I haven’t taken a survey, but my guess is that most people will tell you they can’t stand when an e-learning course’s navigation is locked. And to compound the frustration, many of those courses are narrated by the world’s slowest talkers. If a locked course is a frustrating experience, why do so many exist?

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2023

Copying text from images comes in handy especially when updating old e-learning courses. In those cases, do a screen grab of the course and then extract the text from the image. Then copy and paste the text into the application you use to build your e-learning courses. It’s free and easy to use.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Many e-learning designers are challenged because they don’t often build accessible e-learning courses. So, they’re not sure what accessibility means and how it impacts course design. An attendee asked, “What’s wrong with retrofitting a course?”. Understanding Accessible E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

One of my favorite sites for free stock images is Unsplash.com. They provide hundreds of free stock images with a Creative Commons Zero license. That means you can do anything with the images, whether free or commercial. It works well in an elearning context. You can download the free template it here.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When someone first starts to build an e-learning course, one of the first things I recommend is determining the colors they’ll use. This way, every time you build a course the theme colors are set up the same and you can easily swap them out when needed. Courses usually have a main color and an accent color.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

To avoid these issues, I use SyncToy, a free application from Microsoft to back-up my files at night. Of course, that requires you remembering to do so, but that’s where the next step comes in. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As a steward of an organization’s e-learning resources, it’s essential to make decisions that improve the bottom line. Aligning e-learning courses to the organization’s performance goals is key to ensuring positive results. Want to learn more? Want to learn more? Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

My hunch is the most e-learning courses are explainer-type content, heavy on content, but light on applied learning. This is fine, especially since most of the learning happens outside the course; however, good e-learning courses should be more than content. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In a recent post we looked at boring course content. Today we’ll look at how to deal with the bored people when building e-learning courses. E-Learning Courses Should Be Relevant and Meaningful. There’s a lot to learn about instructional design with all the theories and models.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 14, 2020

If you do your course editing in your e-learning authoring tool like Rise 360 , then Microsoft Editor is a tool that comes in handy. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not surprised that there are problems with many training courses. People complain about the courses they’re taking, the quality of the courses, and the fact that they’re often forced to take courses they don’t want to take. Learners need a reason to take the course.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 13, 2018

I came into rapid e-learning from the world of Authorware and Flash where building courses took a lot of time and cost a lot more money. Initially, I only used it to storyboard my course content and interactions in PowerPoint. Myth 1: Rapid E-Learning Is Crapid E-Learning!

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 20, 2021

And when I heard we had a 3-hour harassment course coming, my first emotional response wasn’t positive. Why do I shudder thinking of taking a 3-hour e-learning course? I hear all the time that e-learning courses are boring. We have conferences that teach us how to build better courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

In an ideal world, you create an e-learning course, publish it, and put it online. The reality is that there are many variables between the technology and the individual users and how they access the courses. So if you need to troubleshoot why a course isn’t working, send them the link above. See you in 2023.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m in the e-learning community every day helping people troubleshoot their e-learning courses. Often, it’s a matter of troubleshooting how the course is constructed. Like the Xfinity technician, people take courses on a variety of devices and in various environments. Well, I was mistaken.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One of the best ways to learn to build courses is to get inspiration from what others build. Keep in mind that many of these are not complete courses but instead they’re prototypes created for the weekly challenges. Thanks to Samara for sharing her courses and downloads. Want to learn more? Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 6, 2021

“Where do I put my e-learning courses?” ” The answer to this seems obvious to someone who’re been building courses for a while. Today, we’ll do a quick survey of some common considerations when it comes to getting a course to your learners. ” Then you should learn a bit more.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

One challenge I see for those who are just getting started with e-learning is that while they have the authoring tools to build the courses, they tend to lack the other connections and resources to pull the courses together. Someone is commissioning the course. Who will review the course? And at what point.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2022

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. Here’s a quick recap: Tell them what they’ll learn. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2020

It never fails that after building an e-learning course in Storyline, someone asks if they can get a PowerPoint version of the course. Tip #1: Start All Course Development in PowerPoint. My first tip assumes you know that you’ll need a PowerPoint version of the course. Publish your Storyline course.

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