Rapid eLearning

MAY 14, 2019

Originally, the interactive scenario started as a PowerPoint file that was published with Articulate Studio to demonstrate how to create simple branched scenarios in PowerPoint. Interactive Scenario: PowerPoint. Click to view the interactive scenario create with PowerPoint. Interactive Scenario: Storyline.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 10, 2021

Storyline 360 includes a 360° image feature where one can insert interactive markers and labels. Last week, the e-learning challenge was to create some 360° image interactions. Each image represents one point of content versus a series of interactive markers and labels. View 360° image example via Jonathan Hill. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 31, 2018

I get a lot of questions about interactive e-learning. Often people are looking for specific “interactive” features in the software. Part 1: Interactive E-Learning Strategies. Here’s a simple strategy I use when building interactive e-learning courses. Part 2: Interactive E-Learning Features.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 20, 2017

At a recent workshop, we reviewed some of the essentials of interactive e-learning. Basic Course Design. We discussed this in the post on what every new instructional designer should know. This last point is where we consider how the user interacts in the course. Objectives for Interactive E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2023

At the corporate level, many teams possess authoring tools and instructional design expertise. However, they may lack the experience or resources required for media, learning experience, and visual design. Vendors are generally better equipped to support the entire development process from design to implementation.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A lot of people ask about building interactive e-learning and usually are dismissive of “click and read” e-learning. Most of this is linear content with little interactivity other than buttons to continue the progress or start the media. There is not a lot of interactivity on YouTube. We watch television and videos.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They offer a visual design that is cohesive and includes a lot of common objects, such as content holders, progress indicators, badges, and buttons. Many stock image sites sell GUIs. Graphic Burger is another site that shares a lot of free stock assets. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we design e-learning courses, we need to think about the overall objective of the training program and design our courses to meet that objective. All too often, I see courses that are nothing more than glorified and interactive PowerPoint slides. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Playing with the site reminded me of a few core principles that are often neglected when building interactive e-learning; so here are a few brief thoughts. How to design good interactivity. I always see interactive e-learning as two considerations: touch the screen and apply the content. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The three options I recommend are: simple linear course linear plus some simple learning-based interactivity decision-based interactivity. The customers generally choose the second option because it’s a type of course they understand, includes some focus on performance and interactivity, and is a lot quicker to build.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 8, 2021

Friction comes from things like lack of clear direction, unmeasurable objectives, poor instructions, novel interactions that don’t add value, and poor course design like mediocre-looking content or overbuilt animations and transitions. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It seems like every day there’s a new site that offers free stock images. Seriously, how many stock images are you really using? In the past, I’ve save you some time by reviewing free stock images and curating them into contextual downloads. Stock Up is courtesy of Site Builder Report. Stock Snap.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

Examples of Free Stock Video Courses. Great use of stock video throughout. Love the way she tied the colors and yoyo into the design. Clever way to get people to interact with the screen. Find Free Stock Videos. One of the first questions that comes up is where to get free stock videos. Just looks beautiful.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2022

However, many of those courses tend to be overbuilt with superfluous interactivity. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. This is fine in the right context. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Bravehearts Interactive Map | Samuel Apata. Storyline Showcase: Adaptive Interactions | Alex Ryan & James Oakley. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 1, 2021

Why spend extra time and resources on custom interactivity in Storyline 360 ? There are times where custom interactivity is warranted. In that case, use Rise 360 and add custom interactions from Storyline 360. And what happens is the instructional designer converts that content into a “course.”

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2020

There’s a lot to learn about instructional design with all the theories and models. Or will it happen in their daily interactions with real people, making real decisions? Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. October 6: Amsterdam.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Create a demo course with different treatments that vary from typical content-heavy to a bit more interactive and focused on decision-making experiences. As a course designer, it’s you job to help the client to see past the content. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Matthew Guyan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The role of Instructional Designer (ID) is evolving into a Learning Experience Designer (LXD). Ceren Korkmaz 1 offers a distinction between the two terms that resonates with me: “instructional design emphasizes the source of knowledge – in other words the planning of the teaching activities. 1 Korkmaz, C.,

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This is especially true when you consider the interactive nature of e-learning and how different users access the content. Want to learn more: Download this free e-book: 6 Best Practices for Designing Accessible E-Learning. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 8, 2017

There are three main ways to interact with the course: click, mouseover, and drag. While click-based interactions are the most prominent, a good drag and drop interaction is usually more engaging. In fact, anytime I feature a drag-based interaction in a blog post, I’m always asked how it was created.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

One of my favorite sites for free stock images is Unsplash.com. They provide hundreds of free stock images with a Creative Commons Zero license. Unfortunately, while it’s great to get a boatload of free stock images, many of them are mostly decorative and hard to use for elearning courses. Download Free Stock Images.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 20, 2021

We discuss this often in the community and present weekly challenges to instigate thinking about interactive content in different ways. ” Apparently, only highly trained instructional designers can build good e-learning. And they weren’t created by ignorant people; they were created by instructional designers.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Instructional design isn’t really that complicated. The challenge with a lot of e-learning is that courses are designed to be presentations of content, but not focused enough on the teaching and application. Just looking at content with no application of what’s learned is a deficient instructional design process.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 30, 2020

This helps us gain mastery over the e-learning tools , play around with various interactive prototypes, and get inspiration from seeing what others can do. Many of the challenges feature facts and various levels of interactivity. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2015

The good news is that there are more than enough free stock images available, such as these three earlier posts where I shared 80 free stock photos , 45 free stock photos , and 60 more free stock photos. Here are some tips to help customize free stock photos to work with your courses. August 21 (Athens, GA).

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

In a previous post, we looked at the HTML5Test site as a way to check the browser and how it’s current support for HTML5 which is important to know when adding interactivity and multimedia to projects. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. See you in 2023.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

They had to read a bunch of instructional design books. In that sense it is ridiculous to suggest that because the book offered no interactivity, it was useless or boring. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. I asked what they did in the class. Guess what?

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2020

One of the top questions about e-learning is how to make boring course content more engaging and interactive. They interact with others and make decisions. How does the course content impact the interactions with other people? Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 23, 2020

So, I recommend some sort of early decision-making interactions. They don’t need to be big elaborate scenarios: just a few interactions that test their understanding and help them see what they currently know about a given situation. But your interaction gets them set up to do so. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Identify a few common course types such as interactive scenarios, compliance training, software simulations, etc. Either show screenshots or small chunks of the module (like just the interactive parts). Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. What did you build?

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 18, 2017

And a common challenge is converting all of that PowerPoint training into interactive and engaging e-learning. Today we’ll look at a few considerations that will help make the conversion to interactive e-learning successful. Understand Why the E-Learning Course Needs to Be Interactive. Create novel onscreen interactions.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Sometimes I help them think through what they need to do to build a certain type of interaction. In the community, there’s usually some conversation about instructional design. Build a test course that is made up of some videos, audio, and various interactions (with some animations, to boot). Details coming soon.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This is part two of the series on working with 3D models and interactive video. Today, we’ll discover how to use them to create interactive videos in Storyline. And then of course, once you have an interaction you can also insert it into a Rise course, which is what I did in this Rise lesson. The process is similar.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is a critical part of building and re-using interactions and templates. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

At a recent workshop I showed the difference between creating interactive elearning in PowerPoint and Storyline. One of them was a tabs interaction. Free Interactive Tabs Template. I usually get questions on how to edit the free templates and make them interactive. For the workshop I created a few different templates.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Getting Started?

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