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. This is such a compelling issue that Mitchell Levy and I dedicated an entire section of our book on the subject of rapid instructional design. What could be more effective than that?

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2017

Scientists, economists, accountants, and mathematicians all have one thing in common: they all deal in “absolutes.” Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives. Building Achievable Learning Objectives. B = Behavior. C = Conditions.

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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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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As online learning becomes the new norm, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet has become cluttered with instructional information. These often fall under the Creative Commons License. Step 0: Prerequisites to Teaching Materials Licensing Teaching materials licensing might seem complex to many.

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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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CourseArc

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here’s an example: in our 12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design article, we highlight books and websites. Instead of saying, “Click here to learn more about Julie Dirksen’s book”, we say “If you are new to instructional design, Julie Dirksen’s book is a great pick for those just getting started.” Color Contrast.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 28, 2022

Comprehension of instructional design will help learning officers develop programs that utilize best practices and proven methodologies that ultimately increase workforce development. This enables them to communicate and collaborate more effectively. A learning officer must understand how adult learners learn.

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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. Educators use teaching material management systems to organize and distribute instructional materials, ensuring alignment with academic standards and pedagogical best practices.

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CourseArc

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

You don’t need to be a designer to use design to your advantage: from the typeface and colors you select to the images that accompany your text, the design elements you choose are all part of communicating effectively with your audience. Ready to learn more? Check out our resource site to see how we can help your team.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, March 14, 2008 Instructional Strategies? What instructional strategies do you use to make your content more memorable and engaging? Things might get a bit silly with all that snapping, but I bet its effective.

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learnWorlds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For example: If you want to use a song in a series of instructional videos, you don’t have to purchase additional licenses every time you make a new video. Imagine an online music library where you can find everything from cinematic sound effects to indie and spiritual music and from jingles to entire playlists.

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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. Clark was right of course. Enjoy the retro-futuristic images!

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 09, 2009 Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work Lunchtime webinosh with Will Thalheimer, PhD (president of Work-Learning Research, Inc. If objectives worded general, they have very little effect.

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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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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. 1 – Training/Instructional Services. Click image for full-size version. 4 – Performance Consulting Services. Click image for full-size version.

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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? Teasdale is an instructional designer in the corporate market. the usual controversy erupted.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It’s a perfect primer for eLearning developers and instructional designers who work with Articulate products. Notes: These instructional materials are provided under a Creative Commons license and can be adapted to develop your own courses and resources for learning about accessibility, as long as you attribute the source.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, January 19, 2009 Instructional Design: Whats in a name? I stumbled across this on a writers blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. Koreen Olbrish asks "Is Instructional Design Dead?"

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 26, 2007 Rubric for Online Instruction Chico State This morning, I stumbled across this Rubric for Online Instruction from Chico State University. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is more effective than cramming the entire arc of a lesson into one nonstop session. Image of hourglass by Alexander Boden via Flickr Creative Commons License. Introduce your students to the basics of a new concept first, and then build on it in subsequent lessons to show how the basics lead to advanced applications.

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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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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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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Happy and confident employee means more productive, efficient, and creative. Offering step-by-step instructions and on-screen prompts eliminates guesswork and reduces frustration. As new technologies emerge, employees can quickly adapt and learn how to use them effectively with the help of a digital adoption platform.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 05, 2007 More on PowerPoint and Instructional Design Continuing the PowerPoint conversation begun yesterday here and picked up by Clive on Learning: Dont blame PowerPoint.and Quintus Joubert PowerPoint vs. Interactive Learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Effective design using PPT as a tool. But will talk about how to make instruction more engaging, interactive and interesting. Creating asynchronous instruction. Info dumps are not instruction! Not PPT 101.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this post I will featuring direct quotations from legendary American psychologist Jerome S Bruner , whose work focused on the psychology of learning, pedagogical methods such as instructional scaffolding and the spiral curriculum , as well as social constructivist learning methods. Bruner, J. 1990) Acts of Meaning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the first uses for LOGO was to enable children to program a floor robot, giving it instructions to move around the room and perform simple tasks. This remains a very effective learning device - children love the idea of robots, and enjoy being able to control them. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, November 02, 2007 Instructional Designers: Do You Have a Degree in ID? In the UK, according to Clive, virtually no one has a degree in Instructional Design. Come on, guys!) Perhaps thats where I belong.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Augmented reality takes a view of a real environment and augments it with additional information or effects. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a type of copyright license wherein the creator of the content still retains the rights but allows others to use it free of charge with certain stipulations.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2019

What he does have available are detailed instructions about how to process the symbols and respond with other Chinese symbols. In effect they believe that the kiosk contains a 'mind' that can comprehensively process morphographic, syntactic and semantic - and perhaps even cultural elements - of Chinese. Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s catching on as a way to begin working more effectively with students and it can be a great goal to have in place as you begin exploring using video. Rather than leaving wall-of-text notes, have the guest teacher play a video of you leaving the day’s instructions. Can’t see the embedded video? Watch it on YouTube.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. Their many instructional applications include step-by-step process, demonstrations , tutorials , and presentations. Record a PowerPoint presentation with narration and add special effects, images, audio, and video.

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Learning with e's

MAY 19, 2014

According to Anderson, procedural memory consists of sequences of actions based on pattern matching that is similar to computing instructions such as if-then - if this happens, then do that. Graphic by Steve Wheeler Making memories by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

On the second day of the project they assembled their images and videos together, added sound effects and music, and then presented their videos to their peers and the module tutors for feedback. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history. Below is a fine example of the work they produced in their Stories without Words project.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

They wished to maximise this time, and developed a number of strategies that involved instruction taking place outside the walls of the classroom. For centuries, innovative teachers have been trying to find other more effective methods of pedagogy that can take the place of lecturing and instruction. This is not new of course.

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2016

Two of the tables were allowed to collaborate, sharing the instructions and working in their teams to complete the task together. On the other two tables, we were instructed by one of the students, who had sole possession of the instructions. Was there a creative difference? The result is what you see in this image.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2014

Instruction takes place outside the classroom and discussion follows in the classroom. If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. Yet it is not as clear cut as the binary might suggest. Unported License.

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