Rapid eLearning

JUNE 25, 2019

Stock image sites are fine for generic illustrated maps but they’re usually too generic. Recently, I was working on a map demo where I needed a specific map, but I didn’t want a real map screen shot because it was too busy and I knew the stock sites couldn’t provide what I needed because it was too specific.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 21, 2015

Here’s a free PowerPoint template I built for a recent workshop. This free template could be used as a way to share manager/employee information or perhaps as an FAQ interaction. In either case it’s free for you to use as you wish. In either case it’s free for you to use as you wish.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2015

Here’s another free PowerPoint template that you’re free to use in your online training courses. The free template is structure to slide up and down as you navigate. I designed the files for a workshop on building some interactive timelines, however it can be used for anything. Download the Free Template.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 12, 2019

Between the blog posts, community interactions, workshops, and webinars one of the most frequently asked questions is how to get started with e-learning or become a better e-learning developer. Not only is the content valuable, but it’s a demo worth deconstructing to glean ideas for your next e-learning course. Register now.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s a keyboard utility that displays keyboard shortcuts as they are used during your demos. It’s a fairly easy to use and it’s free. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. If you'd like to see one of our workshops in your area just let me know.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Here’s a free elearning template I created for a recent workshop. The free template includes three interactions: two timelines and one process interaction. Free E-Learning Template Example. Click here to view an example of the free template. Download the free elearning template here. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

Here are the three files I used for the demos in case you want to look at them and follow along. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. E-Learning Workshop : workshop covers general e-learning topics and not tool-specific. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

In fact, I use it quite a bit for this blog and some of the graphics I need in my e-learning demos. Create Free Icons and Images in PowerPoint Using Dingbat Fonts. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Digital Learning Tour : workshop will be in English.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

Click here to view demo course. Above is a demo course where you can see both options in action. Click here to view variables demo. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Details below.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 6, 2019

Credit for Free Assets. I wrote a blog post a while back that dealt with how to credit the source of free assets we find online. Click here to view the demo. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Most people can’t share their current work for various reasons, but the challenge demos are yours and work perfect for portfolios. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. My workshop day will be in English. Free E-Learning Resources. Stop by and say hi.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For this demo, I am going to use Screen2Gif because it works well for this demo that has a lot of slides, it’s easy to use, and it’s free. For the demo, I copied the old course screens and created new slides Storyline. My workshop day will be in English. Free E-Learning Resources. Details coming.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I’ve just finished a number of workshops and capped it off with a session at Devlearn. At a workshop in Portland, Mike went outside and shot some video with his smart phone and then built this quick demo to show easy it is to build interactive video courses. Click here to view interactive video demo.

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Ed App

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

EdApp has a ton of free advanced features available that can help you with your food safety training. Cost : Free. Cost : Free. In this feature, you can organize team training, course completion certificates, and food safety training workshops in one place. Cost : Free. Cost : Request a demo. Gamification.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means if you shared a demo in previous challenges (or if you were using Dropbox as a free way to feature your portfolio of courses) all of those links will be broken. Be careful of free services. Odds are they’ll be gone or remove the free part of the service and you’ll be in the same place you are today.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It’s easy to do and free or close to free. As a bonus, with Amazon S3 you can also easily create free text-to-speech narration that sounds really good. It’s not free, but it’s inexpensive and comes with other benefits. Here are three demos: Demo 1: Astley Rotoscope. Demo 2: Green Monster.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 30, 2018

I shared a cool 3D interaction in a recent workshop demo and have had lots of people ask how I built it. You can check out the interaction in this Rise demo. Here’s a previous post where I detailed more of the construction of the Rise demo. Free E-Learning Resources. It’s a win-win. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 5, 2019

I built a simple sorting interaction to show how to work with sliders and variables for a workshop. Click here to view the demo. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. April 10 (Madrid): E-Learning Workshop. My workshop will be in English.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2016

This a good performance-based demo that allows the learner to explore and make educated guesses. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Connect with your peers in the Toronto area and learn all sorts of tips & tricks in this fun community-based workshop.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2016

When I facilitate elearning workshops I routinely show the examples created for the community’s weekly elearning challenges. There are a number of occasions where I spend time deconstructing the demo trying to figure out how it was created. I met Joanna Kurpiewska a few years ago at a workshop in London.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

And that’s kind of what happened to me with my demo. My initial idea for the demo was beyond my resources, so I decided to look for photo frame pictures on istockphotos. The image packs worked great because for a few dollars I was able to build a series of rich looking screens for my elearning demo. Visual Design Tips.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

Another takeaway from her session is that the escape room was designed as a facilitated workshop, so it’s not a standalone experience. Alison Sollars Tweet Stacy advised avoiding basing prizes on speed (such as how quickly learners can escape), because this shifts the focus and causes learners to rush.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2015

I found a free desktop image made available by Anastasia Kolisnichenko. I used the free image to create an interactive course prototype for an upcoming workshop activity. The template is free for you to download and use as you wish. You do have some options to customize if you get an.EPS version of the free download.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 26, 2018

Many of them share source files, record tutorials, and show demos. What they offer is offered for free and on their own time. If you don’t use Articulate 360 yet, there are all sorts of other screencasting options that are free or low-cost. Share a File or Demo. Free E-Learning Resources. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2016

Here’s quick demo I created using this video from YouTube produced by Union Gas. Interactive Video Quiz : includes a how-to tutorial and free download to create your own. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 2, 2015

For example, something like the Broken Co-Worker demo built in Storyline can be made into a template and used over and over again. Download your free 46-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Workshops & Events (2015). Free E-learning Resources. Create templates.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 21, 2016

To avoid the feature trap, I recommend that you test each application by building the same demo module. Does the vendor provide free resources to help you learn? Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

On top of that, the person also doesn’t own the software to build new demos for a portfolio. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. If you'd like to see one of our workshops in your area just let me know. Free E-Learning Resources. Jan 31 (London).

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

More Free Stock Photos. I just noticed that one of my favorite free stock photo sites, StartUp Stock Photos , released a bunch more photos. Download the free stock photos here. Here is an article that highlights the Articulate Guru winners and links to the demos. Free E-learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 13, 2019

This is one of my favorite demos in all of the challenges. And yet, because he started with an existing graphic, it’s relatively easy to build something similar, especially for the person with minimal graphic design skills who has to work with stock imagery. View demo. Free E-Learning Resources. Download file.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 6, 2021

In a recent workshop on creating interactions, we looked at ways to take a single image and create interactive content. It’s a good practice activity because many of us aren’t graphic designers so it helps us see different ways to use stock imagery that doesn’t require a lot of editing. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Also, here’s a link to the 200 free rapid elearning tutorials I posted a while back. Audacity : free open source audio recording and editing software. Creative Commons audio : good sites to get free audio for your courses. CCMixter , The Freesound Project , OpSound , Free Music Archive , and Jamendo. Here’s a demo.

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learnWorlds

JULY 3, 2022

Although it’s also possible to create a membership site that’s entirely free, the “gated” part is an essential element of a membership site. A membership site can be either free, paid, or both, offering a range of membership plans. Members either get a free trial or are on a free plan that grants them access to limited content.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I’m did a workshop on simple ways to create animated.gifs for e-learning courses. In part of the workshop we play around with using them as header graphics for Rise courses. Examples of Free Animated Gif Headers. Here are a few demos to see what they look like as headers in Rise courses. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In a recent e-learning challenge, we were asked to create a demo module and use the 2019 Pantone Color of the Year (which is Living Coral). This came at a good time, as I was pulling together some content for a workshop and wanted to show a few different ideas around color in a course’s visual design. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2016

And here’s an easy way to create them for free. Create Animated.GIFs for Free with Screen2Gif. Screen2Gif is a free open source application available here for download. Click here to view the demo. And now you can do it for free. Free E-Learning Resources. Animated GIF Example for E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I created a demo course in Rise for a workshop. One of my goals with the demo was to show off different ways to add content and how the various blocks work and look in a real-ish project. Like I mentioned earlier, the actual assets in this demo module are from NASA, so they get all of the credit. Lessons 10: Free Posters.

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