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How Do You Find A Great Instructional Design Company?

Spark Your Interest

How Do You Find A Great Instructional Design Company? In an earlier article we discussed 10 Qualities and Skills of a Great Instructional Design Company. While that post describes the top qualities and skills you should look for, how do you actually find a great instructional design company? Web Search.

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4 Tips to Writing eLearning Scripts That Sing

Association eLearning

One note of caution for lightening your scripts. This might be okay depending on your audience, but if your eLearning will be translated or localized, these informal phrases can be misunderstood in other cultures. Share it on StumbleUpon. Consider lightening up your scripts using list organizers. Send via Email.

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Using Fantasy in Instructional #Games

Kapp Notes

I am often asked if an instructional or training game should be “realistic” or can the game have “fantasy” elements and still be an effective learning tool. It turns out that there are several valid and research-based reasons for including fantasy as a key element in the design of games to help people learn.

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Crash Course For Constructive Feedback

Association eLearning

If you want something specific, leave direct instructions. Leave conflicting notes. One note says, “Replace the word ‘dog’ with ‘canine’ throughout this module.” A second note in the same document says, “Add the sentence, ‘The dog ran.’ ”. What the person reading it thinks : “Great, they liked that!

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Captivate 8 Custom Motion Effect Example

Experiencing eLearning

The movement is saved as a custom effect (drive_away) so I can reuse it, as explained by Lieve Weymeis on her blog. One note about these custom effects: they seem to be very glitchy and unstable. The custom effect contains a Left-to-Right movement (which I edited to move up instead of left to right) and a ScaleTo 0.8.

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The Year in Learning—89 Hand-Picked L&D-Related Articles from 2017

The Learning Dispatch

We’ve gathered all of Kevin’s 2017 “This Month in Learning” articles and commentary here, grouped into nine categories (noting the number of articles given in each): Accessibility (6). Instructional Design (23). Program Design (11). Visual Design (9). Fully on board with killing it.

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A Powerhouse of Possibilities – Unleash Your Creativity with Captivate 2019

Adobe Captivate

However, with the latest major version of the software, Captivate 2019 proves to make your job easier, refine your skills as an educator/designer/developer/etc., The 2019 release of Captivate has a variety of icons built directly into the hotspot feature which promotes consistency in design, as well as ease of development.