Mike Taylor

MAY 14, 2021

John Sweller talks about his Cognitive Load Theory on the Filling the Pail Podcast Emily Justin-Szopinski talks about the overlap between digital marketing and instructional design on the Awesome ID podcast Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins look at the difference between a learning culture and a culture of learning on the From Scratch podcast.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Last Week’s Most Clicked Learning Styles Are More Toxic Than We Thought News & Notes BrightSlide: Supercharge Your PowerPoint Design Productivity Ever feel like working in PowerPoint takes forever to do what you want? BrightSlide is a free add-in that makes it super fast to design, fix up, and change your presentations. No problem!

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Mike Taylor

MARCH 8, 2024

Last Week’s Most Clicked Instructional design 4.0 Learn more → Tech Tools & Tips If tools are your jam, check out my new Work Smarter newsletter. This episode explores how to design and evaluate training for real impact. Thanks for reading! Fillout Create powerful forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With automated nudges, personalized learning journeys, eye-catching design, and data-driven optimization, email is an easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive option that is far too often overlooked. Learn more → Tech Tools & Tips If tools are your jam, check out my new Work Smarter newsletter.

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Mike Taylor

APRIL 21, 2023

Last Week’s Most Clicked: The Learning Content Maturity Model News & Notes Ten of My Favorite Papers on the Science of Learning and Thinking Newsletter regular Scott H. Join over 450K people reading Tech Brew – the 3-times-a-week free newsletter covering all updates from the intersection of technology and business.

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Mike Taylor

MAY 13, 2022

How to Write Instructional Design Case Studies for Your Portfolio. You can achieve this by adding instructional design case studies to your portfolio. A discussion about learning designers and how to choose the right interventions on the Mind Tools podcast. How was this week’s newsletter? Help me improve.

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Mike Taylor

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Looking to kick off 2019, I’m *SUPER* excited to team up with speakers and facilitators from the UK and around the world at the Learning Technologies conference in February. In the meantime, here are the best things of the week from the learning, design, and technology world. On Conference Proposal Rejections. Conference News.

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Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Designing for accessibility is not that hard. Inclusive Design For Accessible Presentations. Learning, Design & Technology Miscellany. Conference News. Speaker Proposals: Canadian Elearning Conferences call for speakers is open through December 7th. HR Tech Conference – open until December 28th.

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Mike Taylor

MARCH 1, 2024

Last Week’s Most Clicked BrightSlide: Supercharge your PowerPoint design productivity masterclass News & Notes This week’s featured article is sponsored by Wynter What L&D gets wrong about marketing tactics and how to do the things that work Ross Stevenson emphasizes the importance of adopting marketing strategies in L&D).

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Presentation: Twitter is Dead (really?) - Dont Waste Your Time , April 8, 2010 I was not privileged enough to be able to attend this years eLearning Conference at the University of Plymouth, but have been following some of the conversations and sessions on Twitter thanks to the #pelc10 hashtag. Can You Learn from a Recording?

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Mike Taylor

MAY 7, 2021

“The way organizations are designed and managed, the way people’s jobs are defined, create fundamental learning disabilities.” Learning Solutions) – May 11 A Fresh Perspective on What’s Possible with Today’s Learning Technologies – June 10 Canadian Elearning Conference – June 11.

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Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Here are a few far-out things here on earth for you from the world of learning, design, and technology. John Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) may be the single most important thing for teachers to know, but it was not necessarily designed with teachers in mind. Learning, Design & Technology Miscellany. Conference News.

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We see a trend to design and deliver training apps for smaller, mobile devices as a compliment to primary learning activities. Gameful Design — This ranges from gamification to serious learning games. The Internet is overflowing with instructional content and information presentation. There are really no surprises there.

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LearnUpon

DECEMBER 3, 2018

An eLearning professional is only as good as their best eLearning tools. While a learning management system is one of the most important eLearning tools you need to have, there are many nifty online apps, programs and systems designed to make your eLearning experience simpler. Google Drive. Articulate Storyline.

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LearnUpon

APRIL 26, 2018

The team at LearnUpon organizes eLearning projects and helps customers with course content every day. So we asked members of our development, customer support and design teams to recommend the top eLearning tools they can’t work without. It makes for a great eLearning development tool. Tool: Google Drive.

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LearnUpon

MAY 12, 2016

The team at LearnUpon organizes eLearning projects and helps customers with course content every day. So we asked members of our development, customer support and design teams to recommend the top eLearning tools they can’t work without. Today, almost all eLearning professionals appreciate the importance of engaging learners.

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