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How humor helps + Powtoon review

Making Change

In a recent LinkedIn discussion about the cartoon, Megan Torrance reported that in one of her projects, elearning modules with a funny cartoon trailer had twice as many signups as modules without the trailer. I poked around Google Scholar and found studies that seem to agree that (relevant!) What research says about humor.

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Instructional Design Tools to Adopt in 2022

Maestro

At Maestro, we regularly take stock in the available tools for instructional designers and consider what the best ones are, from software to style guides, diagnostics to downloads. At Maestro, we use a suite of tools to collaborate across our teams, for projects big and small. Google’s content-creation apps. Collaboration tools.