Rapid eLearning

MARCH 31, 2020

Of course your e-learning software comes with a great assortment of e-learning templates and characters to use in your online training courses. But, really, who doesn’t like additional free illustrations to use in e-learning courses? Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. 10 Production Tips from the E-Learning Challenges by David Anderson. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 17, 2020

That’s a great way to learn to use your e-learning software. 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. Details coming soon.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I even show how you could use it doing a software demo in a live presentation. It’s probably not practical to do a live transcription for a software workshop. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 30, 2020

Click here to view the e-learning example. If you want to grow your skills using the e-learning software and building interactions, the challenges are a great way to do that. Join us in the e-learning challenges to grow your skills. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Details coming soon.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. 10 Production Tips from the E-Learning Challenges by David Anderson. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Free Audio Files for E-Learning. A Dozen Free Stock Video Sites for E-Learning. How to Find Multimedia for E-Learning. Free E-Learning Scenario Images. Hundreds of Free Resources to Build Your E-learning Courses. Free E-Books. E-Learning for Beginners.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 14, 2020

You’re building an e-learning course and your subject matter expert needs to review and make edits to the course. But they don’t have access to your e-learning software. Before you start building the e-learning course, you should have a signed and approved script. What Should Happen.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Performance-based courses tend to be of two types: Procedural : these courses are performance-based as they have a required sequence of events or procedures that need to be followed. This is typical of a lot of machine or software training. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 18, 2019

In a recent post, I shared how I’d determine which e-learning application to use and when. This type of approach will save resources and help you get the most out of the e-learning software you use. A lot of e-learning content is content that already exists in other formats. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As you know, we have all sorts of free templates to download for your elearning courses and PowerPoint presentations. At a recent conference I was chatting with someone who wanted to make her software training look better. For the most part, software training centers on explainer videos. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s a great way to connect with others, especially beginners, and offer some help as they’re learning. However, for me, it’s a great way to stay on top of the tools as it forces me to think through the software in different contexts. E-Learning Tip: Simulate Right-Click Interactions on Mobile Devices.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Create Characters by Pulling Them Out of Stock Images. You can find a lot of stock images for free. Many of you use the Articulate software. Upcoming Events & Workshops. Two rapid elearning workshops. Day 1: PowerPoint for E-Learning. But that’s easy enough to do yourself. Sign up here.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Software Training. Most organizations do some sort of software training. Show your skills building software training. Add a short screencast video as well as an interactive software simulation. Most e-learning isn’t very good and usually very boring. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 14, 2020

And from a learning experience, that contextual content has specific teaching requirements. For example, if I teach how to use software, then the screens are dependent on screenshots. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Reviewing elearning examples is a great way to learn. You find inspiration to prompt your own ideas and by deconstructing the courses, you learn to use your elearning software to create something similar. Here are some really nice elearning examples that I’ve seen in the community recently.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A lot has changed with e-learning over the past decade or so. However, as the rapid e-learning market emerged, the need for programming skills virtually disappeared. Again, you don’t need to be a programmer to build great e-learning. The authoring software does all of the heavy lifting.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The initial goal of the e-learning challenges was to get e-learning course designers to play around with the software and try new things. They aren’t expected to be big (or complete courses) and they’re designed to learn new production techniques. Hope to see you in the e-learning challenges.

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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. However, the key isn’t specific features as much as it understanding how the e-learning software works and applying that to a few simple strategies.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 21, 2016

I get a lot of questions about buying elearning software. And with that I get to see some of the ridiculous checklists that some IT groups create to compare software. When it comes to selecting software, it can be hard to know what to look for and what questions to ask. The software does the rest.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

They go through the nuances of the software, share hacks, and how to leverage JavaScript when using Storyline. Melissa is a passionate learner and actively shares what she learns (often while she learns). 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

What we often see is that someone opens the e-learning software and starts working on the course using the default settings. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Or perhaps square?

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We discussed it in this blog post on finding free stock images. I am starting to do some Articulate-specific events. We’re working on events for next year. The last thing you want to learn the day of an event is that the room is missing either or that they don’t work. Why Use Storyline for Software Simulations?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They’re great to practice using the software features. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. We'll be adding events for 2017 soon. This elearning 101 series and the free e-books will help.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

All of these are more than the quizzes promised by the software’s title. And once you do that, you’ll get more out of the investment you’ve made in the software. Here are few tips to help you get there: Learn to use the tools. What do you do with your software that it wasn’t designed to do?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

If you create software training then odds are you show a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a quick tutorial where I show how it works and how it would look in your software training. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Mar 20 (Orlando).

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The good thing is that this is really easy to do in Storyline (or event PowerPoint). E-Learning Prototype: Start Backwards. Or do you jump right into the software and start building? 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

JULY 10, 2018

Generally , delivering e-learning courses is a two-step process: 1) create the course in your favorite e-learning software and 2) host the course in a learning management system. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Please share in the comments.

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Trivantis

OCTOBER 2, 2011

e-Learning Authoring Software Made Easy. Web-based Collaborative e-Learning Authoring. Affordable Rapid e-Learning. Learning & Talent Management Systems. Affordable Rapid e-Learning. -->. The Best e-Learning Tips, Blogs & Events: September Wrap-Up.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 6, 2017

Identify a few common course types such as interactive scenarios, compliance training, software simulations, etc. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming E-Learning Events. FocusOn Learning conference. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 24, 2018

As you can see, PowerPoint is great for all sorts of multimedia production especially when combined with great e-learning software. Recently someone in the community asked how to create a circle-shaped video for an e-learning interaction in Storyline. This elearning 101 series and the free e-books will help.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I isolated a few things that they did so that I can show some production tips and nuances of the software. Keep in mind, there’s always a few ways to do the same thing in software. Here are some videos that offer some real quick tutorials on how you can create similar effects and interactions in your own e-learning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 10, 2017

On top of that, there’s a difference between advanced topics for using the Articulate software and advanced topics when it comes to instructional design and course construction outside of the software you’re using. When it comes to software training, here’s how I look at e-learning skills: Basic.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2017

The key point was that it didn’t matter what underlying technology drove the content, the next generation course designer could build e-elearning with no programming skills required. Catching the Rapid E-Learning Bug. From that point on, anywhere I went I was touting this rapid e-learning stuff.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 25, 2017

If you build e-learning courses then there are all sorts of skills required: Project management. Authoring skills in software like Storyline. Also, I just updated the upcoming e-learning workshops. FocusOn Learning conference. Learn more and sign up using the links below. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2017

Most likely you don’t own the e-learning software to create courses. You don’t have access to the courses you built and you don’t have access to the software to rebuild them. Here are a few: drag and drop interactions, decision-making scenarios, software tutorials, and custom navigation.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2017

The goal is to play around with the idea as well as the software. In either case, I try to replicate it in the software to learn what I can do. Find sources of inspiration and then apply what you learn to your own projects. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Seats are limited for the events.

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