CourseArc

MARCH 1, 2017

Designing online courses is a multifaceted endeavor — and all those different facets are often the job of the same person: you. Each stage of the process, from analysis and design to development, testing, implementation, and evaluation, requires a different mindset, skills, and expertise. Course Design. Topic Research.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

Leading digital textbook platforms such as KITABOO provide higher education publishers with advanced tools for content creation, design, updating, and distribution. However, considering the power of DRM, it is best to check specific licenses like the Creative Commons licenses for re-use permissions. Table of Contents: I.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention. The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention. voice apps] Voiceflow – Design, prototype and build voice apps in your browser with no coding. design] Sleek Bundle – free collection of illustrations for your next project.

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Fast forward to more recent history, and we’ve gone from gleaning survival skills from our social group to trying to figure out the most effective means of transmitting skills to individuals new to our organizations and integrating them into our workplace cultures.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

In this post, I explore Donald Norman''s ideas around the design of every day objects. This should not so much be considered as a theory, but is a useful perspective on design and human perception. He argued that what we see is directly perceived, and that we extract meaning from the shape and design of the object we are looking at.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, replacing some aspects of what teachers do is both effective and inevitable. "AI Where it is implemented, AI will rapidly transform the design of courses, providing educators with vast amounts of new insight into what students do, how they study and what is most effective. Unported License.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2016

Had a question about finding good free audio sound effects for elearning courses. Many of these free audio sites are under Creative Commons licensing, but check to be sure. Free Audio Sound Effect Sites for Commercial Use. Freesound.org : a mix of all sorts of free audio sound effects. Need to attribute the source.

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2017

Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives. Let’s look at the process of designing good learning objectives, so you can build the various elements of your course or training in service of a clear purpose with measurable outcomes.

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Superb Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

From schools to businesses, online courses have quickly become an effective alternative to in-class courses, helping people to continue to learn wherever they are. Image Credit: Unsplash under Creative Commons. Mini-course A mini-course, as the name suggests, is a short course designed to be completed in a couple of hours.

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learnWorlds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Are you an experienced designer with strong skills in graphic design, interior design, or any other design-related field? Do you have some serious design thinking skills that you would like to share with the world? Consider this: you already possess the skills you need to start teaching design online.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. Screencast videos can be a very effective learning technique.

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CommLab India

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Video footage can be added in a course for a “wow” effect (e.g. But, how easy or how difficult is it for you as an e-learning designer to create videos for online courses? These websites go a long way in making the lives of e-learning designers easy and help them produce better online courses, faster.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 30, 2022

We’re not talking about the design aesthetics (though we’ve discussed this in previous posts ) — we’re talking about accessibility. Here’s an example: in our 12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design article, we highlight books and websites. Color is important in online course design. Color Contrast.

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Mindflash

JUNE 6, 2012

Business today moves fast, and it’s become critical for instructional designers to ramp up their own processes just to keep pace. Or it’d take two designers almost half a year. Simple: Re-consider how we design learning. Fortunately, there are many ways to speed up the instructional design process.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 28, 2022

Every learning and development program is designed to meet the strategic goals of the organization. Comprehension of instructional design will help learning officers develop programs that utilize best practices and proven methodologies that ultimately increase workforce development.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Image from Wikimedia Commons I have argued for a while that the success of digital learning environments such as the LMS ( Learning Management System ) is based on a fine balance. This is the homeostasis between user experience and institutional design. You probably know the story of the architect who was asked to design a university.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is more effective than cramming the entire arc of a lesson into one nonstop session. CourseArc was designed to put the power of rich media learning at your fingertips. Image of hourglass by Alexander Boden via Flickr Creative Commons License. How Can CourseArc Help?

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It is designed for developers, designers, content authors, project managers, people with disabilities, and others. It’s a perfect primer for eLearning developers and instructional designers who work with Articulate products. federal government.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the realm of higher education, the effective management of teaching materials is critical to cultivating an enriching and dynamic learning environment. You can leverage digital textbook platforms like KITABOO to manage diverse academic resources effectively. Challenges in Teaching Materials Management Systems 1.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

But unlike Purple Mash, which is aimed at the Primary education sector, Python In Pieces is designed for children at Key Stage 3 (students aged between 11-14 years). The cartoons and graphics provide visual stimuli to show students the effects of their coding efforts. Python's got legs! Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. Screencast videos can be a very effective learning technique.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Good, effective teachers are intuitive, empathetic and responsive to the needs of their students. They get to know their charges well, finding creative ways to help them to learn optimally, engaging them with methods and activities designed to draw out the best performances. If they do, then they aren't teaching.

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2019

Elements are often separated by boundaries, and these must be transgressed if blends are to be effected. Such complexities are generally only problematic for academics, course designers and teachers. In other words, we need to bring elements together that might not naturally co-exist. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Have you ever wondered how information and communication technology (ICT) can be effectively deployed in schools? The MIS featured in this post is Integris , designed by RM Education. Many ICT tools and technologies tend to be somewhat difficult to use, often due to poor design. This article focuses on the latter.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2016

Before we get started, here is a list of sites that offer free audio sound effects that I featured in a previous blog post. If it’s distracting or competes with cognitive processing it may make the course less effective. Vimeo : music library of Creative Common music. Free Audio: Background Music. Not Free Audio.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the 2016 ATD TechKnowledge Conference, I hosted a session designed for people just getting started with e-learning. What is responsive design? Responsive design presents content on a web page or an e-learning course in such a way that it works well on a number of devices. What is Creative Commons?

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eFront

JUNE 17, 2011

Recently a fellow member of the Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals' Group (14K+ of members) asked " If anyone know of where to find royalty free background music for training? " You can insert midi files (very small size) into PowerPoint presentations for great music effects. Since, 2008 it has 1,503,345 downloads.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2017

How might all of these activities and progressions be managed, and children effectively guided into the very career pathways they yearn to follow? Technology is designed to help us to do things easier, quicker and more effectively. It's a technology idea that I am very keen to support and help develop. Unported License.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 20, 2012

Here is an updated version (V3) of the WSD Framework with more charts and descriptions, and now available as a PDF to download under a Creative Commons Licence. This service area will continue to design, deliver and manage training, e-learning and/or blended learning events. Click image for full-size version.

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Coursy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Implementing an LMS as part of a holistic learning environment gives the end user flexibility and control to move in various paths (driven by learning needs, not by LMS design). Current LMS interface design relies too heavily on "what do the designers/administrators want/need to do").

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, August 20, 2007 Getting Started in Instructional Design Many readers find their way to this blog because they are interested in learning more about instructional design. My learning has all been completely informal.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

Notwithstanding the student attention issues, I explained that video can be at its most effective when it is used in short bursts as a stimulus to enrich and extend learning, to promote discussion, encourage collaboration and to challenge students' thinking - but definitely not as a replacement for the teacher. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2017

What kind of space best encourages you to think creatively? My base was iNLAB - a purpose built unit designed specifically to promote ideation - creative thinking and innovation. Whiteboard rooms are a simple yet surprisingly effective method to encourage and support creativity, agile thinking and collaborative working.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Digital adoption platform tools are specifically designed to bridge the gap between technology and employees. As new technologies emerge, employees can quickly adapt and learn how to use them effectively with the help of a digital adoption platform. There’s now a better way.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 30, 2009 Do Instructional Design Degrees Get "Wasted"? In my recent post Instructional Design - Whats in a Name? Is the degreed-ID the department manager and not doing any actual design work?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In small groups they were asked to design and construct a Lego robot , and then program it to race around a circuit, with a prize for the winners! Do aerodynamics in the design make any difference? This is not as easy as it sounds. There are a myriad of problems to solve. Do larger wheels have more speed that smaller ones?

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