Upside Learning

MARCH 25, 2010

When I write about interaction, most people reading it view it in the context of software or some form of digital technology. We could do so much more with sound design. Related posts: Our Blog Turns One Today Two More Apex Awards for Upside Learning How Can Adobe BrowserLab Help in eLearning Development?

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eFront

AUGUST 18, 2016

It’s no surprise that eLearning developers are required to have excellent writing skills. Current eLearning programs are often blamed for fluffy writing. It seems like writing for eLearning should be taught as a short tutorial to eLearning development teams.

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Vignettes Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

eLearning developers should shun the “tyranny of precision” when developing storylines for interactive narratives. __ Image Source: [link] We, eLearning developers, always face the temptation of overloading our narratives with detailed information and data. Make me laugh. Make me care.

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TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

In this article, we will provide you with the skinny on rapid eLearning and how it makes an instructional designer a one-man-band. Bersin and Associates in the year 2004 created the term “rapid eLearning”. They demonstrated that rapid eLearning is eLearning development that takes less than three weeks to develop.

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The Learning Dispatch

APRIL 4, 2018

I know you’re going to expand on those accessible elearning concepts that we talk about here with a follow-up blog post, so what I’d like to do is provide an overview of ideas that struck a chord with you. 03:56 — Where Does Accessibility Fit in Elearning Design? Kevin: That’s a great question. Kevin: Quite often, yeah.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 26, 2007

I left a comment on Tony Karrer's blog about creating a "Design Day" so that everyone in the blogosphere adds a comment about the importance of instructional design as opposed to focusing on technology. And then Dennis Coxe over at Sailing by Sound picked up on my comment and posted an entry called "I Declare 'Design Day'".

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OpenSesame

DECEMBER 14, 2010

OpenSesame is a marketplace for connecting the buyers and sellers of elearning courses. We want to reach beyond the market of the existing elearning developers and offer growth opportunities to designers with little experience with elearning courses or subject matter experts new to designing training courses.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? Sounds a lot like software engineering and implementation. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! What blows my mind when I see Inkling?

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eLearning Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Elearning developers can do the same, working the templates and backgrounds to do the work often allocated to text boxes and narration. Tom Kuhlman writes The Rapid Elearning Blog focused on Articulate and great tips for PowerPoint. One excellent post shares how to keep elearning scenarios to three simple steps.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

The folks at Kineo wrote a piece on the future of rapid e-learning tools, summarizing "our view is to give potential authors [SMEs] some easy to use but well structured templates which will give instructional integrity to how they develop their learning." Have I just been writing too much marketing and sales material lately?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Someone got to my blog the other day by searching on “what’s the difference between learning designers and instructional designers?&# have liked to call myself a Learning and Development Consultant/Specialist.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 2, 2016

Subscribe to our blog to get the latest on SCORM delivered to your inbox. On day three , we learned that the packaging aspect, or Content Aggregation Model (CAM), defines how an authoring tool or eLearning developer should package their course into a zip file. That might sound complicated but it’s not really.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 2, 2016

Subscribe to our blog to get the latest on SCORM delivered to your inbox. On day three , we learned that the packaging aspect, or Content Aggregation Model (CAM), defines how an authoring tool or eLearning developer should package their course into a zip file. That might sound complicated but it’s not really.

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The Learning Circuits

MAY 7, 2007

Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points to Consider: As you write your answer, please consider some of the following aspects: How should you use PowerPoint differently for different kinds of presentations?

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you need to ensure that the elearning (or online training, or web-based training) that your organization creates is accessible—that is, usable by people who have disabilities. He frequently shares about accessible elearning development through our Learning Dispatch blog and newsletter.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 29, 2017

Seriously though, you can think of it as using an infographic, chart, or quick sketch to record information or figure out how things are connected, rather than writing everything out. Sound tricky? If you’d like to read more about training, learning, and instructional design check out the rest of this author’s blogs.

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Those with hearing disabilities often use captions to access content related to sound (such as podcasts or video). For more on this topic, see Grove’s blog posts on accessibility business case arguments ). What does this mean for elearning? For example, there are presentations on how to write great alt text.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. Here are three techniques I’ve used that will make your e-learning development go faster and cost less. The first one about not writing a course took me by surprise, but on reflection it sounds like good advice, but requires closer working with each candidate. Search the Blog.

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eLearningArt

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Tom also authors The Rapid eLearning Blog , one of the most followed eLearning blogs, with over 100k+ readers. He is well known for his books , courses, writing, consulting, and talks on interactive learning, games, and gamification. Write, speak, engage from your heart, try not to be a phony, be sincerely curious.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. Tom, Great points - I would like to add a couple more - in hopes that you may address these with your upcoming blog. I know how to create effective network passwords and I know that I should not write my password for everyone to see. Many people are forced to write them down. 30 comments.

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 12, 2017

How to write effective RFPs. Chunking, bite-size, and micro: These are all terms you’ve seen in training magazines and blogs, but what does it mean to shorten the length of training content—specifically video? Audience: Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors. Josh Cavalier, Lodestone.

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TalentLMS

JANUARY 27, 2016

While eLearning developers struggle to produce quality eLearning programs, the learners at large are anticipating mobile-friendly outputs. Have you ever tried to consider mobile-compatible design for your eLearning courses? Now this sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0 The fixed-price contract that has been signed with the vendor for this course is for 766 hours of development at an average hourly rate of $116 for a total of $89,000+.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. They commission the elearning courses, pay the bills, and are the ultimate authority for their elearning projects. On the other hand, a demanding customer can negatively impact the elearning course by making demands that don’t fit sound instructional design. 29 comments.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. Last week we looked at some of the issues with compliance-based elearning and how taking a different approach to its design can save your organization time and money. Late night blogging? Annette: I try not to get into specifics about software on this blog. February 5th, 2008. 22 comments.

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Experience API

JUNE 11, 2015

See Brian Miller’s Deep Dive blog for a deeper dive. Answer: Despite the similar sounding acronyms. Questions: Give an example of how to write simple statements? help you to write your own recipe. In this case it’s important for the LRS to have a record of all the identifiers that relate to a single person. Statements.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Instead of trying to sound like an instructional designer, sound like a teacher who understands the needs of business. Road to L&D: From Training to Instructional Design Tips for Working Productively with SMEs , with Bridget Manley Writing for Instructional Design: Shop Floor Training , with Kim Lindsey. Rick Jacobs.

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Convergence Training

AUGUST 20, 2019

And of course we always enjoy talking with our friend Anna Sabramowicz, an elearning developer who excels at all of this and who generously and freely shares advice and tips on doing this stuff and doing this well. Download our FREE Guide to Writing Learning Objectives. Learning Management Systems. Incident Management Software.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010 Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My My experience is mainly in development of self-paced eLearning for the corporate market.) Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis.

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