Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Add a short screencast video as well as an interactive software simulation. Most e-learning isn’t very good and usually very boring. Here’s a bonus tip : people are drawn to the visual design more so than they are to the instructional design. Do you have an e-learning portfolio?

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Hurix Digital

JANUARY 27, 2021

Importance of selecting the right eLearning creation tool for your business. As mentioned before, multiple eLearning course development tools are available in the market these days. Standalone designing tools. Time is a crucial factor when it comes to eLearning course development. Instructional Strategies.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Focus on good graphic design. Many courses would be better served with better graphics and visual design. Invest in a graphics designer to help take your courses up a notch. Question: See any cool apps or sites lately that work for elearning? Community E-Learning Challenge #59: E-Learning Games for Kids.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Here’s a quick screencast tour of how it works. They’ll help you come up with some elearning course templates. In addition, you’ll become more proficient using PowerPoint and your rapid elearning tools. You’ll also become more comfortable in your graphic design skills. Click here to view the Airdropper tour.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 30, 2010

One of the questions I get asked a lot is about graphics and visual design. Most of the elearning developers I meet have to wear multiple hats. So they’re doing all of the instructional design and graphic design, too. Look for Inspiring Design Ideas. Recreate Good Design.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

So here are my five things if you want to start a career in e-learning. Learn About Learning. Sure, a formal instructional design degree helps, maybe. But today it’s not as critical, assuming you can prove that you really know what you learned. Build an E-Learning Portfolio.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 26, 2018

I find it’s easier to do a quick screencast and share it than it is to type a lot of text. You can record a screencast which is automatically uploaded to Articulate 360 and generates a URL for you to share. You can record a screencast which is automatically uploaded to Articulate 360 and generates a URL for you to share.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Here’s Why You Need an E-Learning Portfolio. Do You Need An Instructional Design Degree? 5 Ways to Prepare & Be an E-Learning Winner. There’s a difference between software training using screencasts and soft skills training that may be built around interactive scenarios. Click here for updates.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2010

In last week’s post, I offered some tips for building rapid elearning courses when you’re short on time and resources. For example, we chose to build all of the technology pieces in Engage because it’s a form-based elearning tool. But we didn’t want the built-in title bar that’s part of the Engage player design.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009. 9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning , Rapid eLearning Blog , May 5, 2009. 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate Roadshow: Learn more and register here ( early bird ends October 18 ). Articulate Roadshow: Learn more and register here. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Good To Great

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

His keynote presentation, about designing for true blended learning, offered some real food for thought. For instance, I know we all talk about ‘point of need’, ‘just in time’ and ‘on the job’ learning, but Bob’s explanation of the five moments of need really brought this to life for me.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 22, 2011

Karrer summarizes the dilemma: “The other day I walked into an executive’s office and they had a site up about “Rapid Instructional Design.” The world moves at a fast pace, and sometimes your organization will not have the luxury of waiting for well-designed and well-executed courses. Shop off-the-shelf.

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Good To Great

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

2 Responses to Five tips for e-learning they’ll fall in love with Lisa McGonigle | February 14, 2011 at 10:34 am | Reply Hi Stephanie Love this little blog – just tweeted about it. Bookmark the permalink.

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Good To Great

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

By letting the e-learning and compliance communities determine the content of the session, and then offering practical tips and examples, I hope that I delivered something that was itself engaging, relevant and effective! Your last par introduces the idea of co-design. Bookmark the permalink.

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Good To Great

MARCH 14, 2011

This is a personal blog, so all thoughts and opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent those of any of my past, present or future employers.

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Good To Great

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Creating tone of voice in eLearning’ , a webinar run by Cammy Bean and Kirstie Greany of Kineo, is one such thing. Perhaps it’s because I come to instructional design from a ‘wordy’ background rather than an IT or psychology background, but tone of voice is something I’m pretty passionate about.

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Good To Great

MARCH 16, 2011

Click on the image above to link to the ABC News website When I shared this in our most recent creative show-and-tell session, everyone loved it; far from just glancing at the images, we spent several minutes sliding the bar on each image backwards and forwards – for whatever reason, this design concept really does engage.

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Good To Great

AUGUST 20, 2010

This is a personal blog, so all thoughts and opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent those of any of my past, present or future employers.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Curator Editor Research Opportunities on eLearning Learning - eLearning Technology , October 1, 2009. Instructional design - pah, who needs it? Spicy Learning , October 2, 2009. Open Environment E-learning: DocBook and XXE - The E-Learning Curve , October 7, 2009. Other Sources.

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Good To Great

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So it really is in everyone’s interest to put the effort in to making users care about what they’re learning. Here are my three tips for making them care: Create a fresh, surprising, eye-catching design or concept to make users sit up and take notice; use the visual design to help overcome any compliance preconceptions they might have.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Twitter for learning - Sticky Learning , October 25, 2009. User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated - The eLearning Coach , October 25, 2009. eLearning Portal Integration - eLearning Technology , October 13, 2009. The Semantic Web cometh - Upside Learning Blog , October 4, 2009.

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Good To Great

AUGUST 6, 2010

Another reason for the nerves surrounding my first venture into solo blogging is the fact that I’ve only been doing this (instructional design) for three years or so, which doesn’t seem very long at all compared to some of the other well known industry bloggers. What characterises good e-learning?

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eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Instructional Design for Virtual Worlds - Experiencing eLearning , January 22, 2010 Welcome to stop #10 on the blog book tour for Learning in 3D! How does the instructional design process change when you’re working with virtual worlds and 3-D environments? Enter SharePoint 2010, due to release in Q2 of 2010.

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Good To Great

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

This is a personal blog, so all thoughts and opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent those of any of my past, present or future employers.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 19, 2016

Types of interactive content and learning activities. Software training: simulations or screencasts. For the job seeker: When assembling a portfolio, pull together diverse elearning examples with different types of courses and interactions. Hire for Desired E-Learning Skills. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Good To Great

AUGUST 16, 2010

For me, there are three headline characteristics that I keep in mind and try to achieve every time I design a piece of learning content. I think good e-learning is: Engaging Relevant Effective Truth be told, most workplace learners are unlikely to jump at the chance to take yet another e-learning course.

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Good To Great

MARCH 10, 2011

This is a personal blog, so all thoughts and opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent those of any of my past, present or future employers.

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Good To Great

MARCH 3, 2011

In e-learning, though, there’s the opportunity to have the best of both worlds – an e-learning course written by one without the other is missing a trick. Bookmark the permalink.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The other day this guy asked me how to develop color schemes for his rapid elearning courses. I shared some of the tools that I use for color schemes in previous posts like this one on creating your own rapid elearning PowerPoint template. Screenr : free screencasting tool; great for tutorials and simple software demos.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Webinaria Screencast Recorder You can create screencast tutorials or record video presentation for sharing with your learners. THE FOLLOWING ANSWER WAS POSTED BY GRAHAM BARNES ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN & E-LEARNING PROFESSIONALS' GROUP ON LINKEDIN [link] How can we use Facebook for e-Learning?

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Transfer of Learning - Theories and Implications - Designed for Learning , October 31, 2009. Designing Impact , November 24, 2009. Principles of eLearning - Thinking Cloud , November 23, 2009. LearnTrends: Microlearning - Experiencing eLearning , November 19, 2009. Engaging Learning , November 9, 2009.

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Good To Great

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I definitely learnt a lot, not just about what makes me ‘me’ but also about engaging and effective instructional design – I came away with a lot of new ideas that I’m just itching to put into practice! Recently I decided to go back to school to pursue a degree in Instructional Design and Technology.

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Good To Great

MARCH 7, 2011

This is a personal blog, so all thoughts and opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent those of any of my past, present or future employers.

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Good To Great

AUGUST 9, 2010

If you had to describe good e-learning in one word, what would it be? Share this: This entry was posted in Instructional design , Questions and answers and tagged e-learning tips , good e-learning , instructional design. 7 Responses to What characterises good e-learning?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 29, 2017

Screencast tutorials are some of the most common forms of online training. This makes sense since a large part of e-learning is predicated on learning new software. One challenge is creating effective and engaging screencasts. Screencast Tip: Establish Context Quickly. Screencast Tip: Focus on Action.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

Because screencasts on Screenr have a five minute limit, they are usually very succinct, which is what I like. Game-based Learning: recent readings (2) - Dont Waste Your Time , March 4, 2010 Even when I try and get on with something else, I keep finding excellent resources about game- and simulation-based learning.

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