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Plain Language for Course Creators: Enhancing Clarity and Engagement

CourseArc

Tips to Write for Clarity and Understanding Put information in logical order, with the important details first. Use an active voice, with a clear “actor “in your writing. Provide definitions for any unusual words. It’s a powerful writing approach in successful course design. Use language familiar to your target audience.

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How Do You Spell “e” Learning? (and other “e” words)

Infopro Learning

Traditionally, the term “e-mail” should have a hyphen, but today most people write “email”. According to Catherine Soanes on the Oxford Dictionary Blog , that’s exactly what happens! To conclude the hyphen debate, the grammatically correct way to write “e-learning” is with a hyphen. E-Learning Wins the Day!

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ANSI/ASSE Z490.2 Update: A Key Definition

Convergence Training

” It’s not often that you get to refer to William Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet when writing about safety training, but events at the most recent meeting of the committee to create ANSI/ASSE Z490.2 Update: A Key Definition appeared first on Convergence Training Blog. as a complement to the existing Z490.1

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Ed-Tech Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC]

LearnDash

Heck, even on LearnDash’s Learning & Collaboration blog , we write about many of the ed-tech trends… gamification, blended learning, flipped classrooms, instructional technology, learning management systems… the list goes on and on.

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Instructional Design Tools to Adopt in 2022

Maestro

Instructional design writing tools. Reference tools. We’ve explored the top options and definitely have our favorites. Instructional design writing tools. Our instructional designers refer to these templates for best practices on component use (i.e., And that’s never more important than in our writing.

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What's a Thought Leader?

The Performance Improvement Blog

Readers of this blog know that I like to define terms that have become over-used to the point of meaninglessness. First use of the term is attributed to Joel Kurtzman who, in 1994, used it in marketing to refer to companies that were intentionally positioned to become known as authorities on a particular product or service.

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

Every time I write about the course standards, whether on my blog or, lately, on LinkedIn, I receive a lot of responses, feedback, and folks wanting to know more. Please note that the term “learning system or learning systems” refers to any type—LMS, LXP, Learning Platform, EXP, and so forth.

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