Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In this blog post, we examine how the role of Instructional Designers has evolved and the qualities that are needed to succeed as an instructional designer in a highly competitive industry. Here’s an infographic that we created way back in 2015 that examines the history of Instructional Design.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Features include: branching, assessment tool, convert slide notes to computer-generated audio via text-to-speech converter (11 voices/accents according to Brainshark), skinned, send links to access courses via social media, output to MP4, certificates and SCORM. Lectora on the list? SCORM and assessment tool. #4 Why you may ask?

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 29, 2020

My favorite, albeit from a sad perspective is the authoring tool vendor who didn’t know what ID meant (uh, instructional design). A leader, at least in the early 2000s, Lectora is no longer part of Trivantis, because Trivantis the company was sold to eLearning Brothers (where Lectora now sits). I say no more. .

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Xyleme

MARCH 13, 2009

Everyone knows that the old way of doing things is just not working any more once you have any number of courses… doing your Instructor Guide and Student Guide in Word or FrameMaker, your Slides in PowerPoint or Keynote and your learning in Articulate or Lectora. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc.

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Content Developer Blended Learning Content Xyleme 51

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 17, 2019

Lectora on the other hand, has an online authoring tool, but for whatever reason continues to have it lag behind in features to their desktop tool, and continues to push their VR authoring tool more so, in my opinion, then the authoring tool itself. Social – ahh, folks think it means something so different than, what you think it means.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2016

For those who are e-learning developers, instructional designers (with the background to back it) or instructional technologists, I feel your pain. Layout screen – slides or whatever you wish to call them on the left side, the building of the course in the middle. My Top Five so far for mid-year.

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Xyleme

MARCH 13, 2009

Everyone knows that the old way of doing things is just not working any more once you have any number of courses… doing your Instructor Guide and Student Guide in Word or FrameMaker, your Slides in PowerPoint or Keynote and your learning in Articulate or Lectora. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc.

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Content Developer Blended Learning Content Xyleme 40

WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

There are a multitude of different tools available to instructional designers and eLearning developers, and it is important to consider which tools will help you to achieve the desired learning objectives and outcomes for your courses. PowerPoint Slide Presentations. Video – You Tube, Vimeo, uploaded files.

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Obsidian Learning

APRIL 25, 2016

xAPI was designed to capture non-traditional learning activities. E.g. simulations, social learning, gaming, mentoring. Lectora [link]. Per ‏@DuncanWIV “In designing courses, key to good data is establishing good naming conventions for module ‘pages’ and interactions.”. xAPI has real world and real time value.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 23, 2016

An instructional designer or LMS administrator is unlikely to know that the authoring tool used is at fault. Content developers: Content developers are usually instructional design experts. Assess how strong their blog and social media channels are. How can you tell if a vendor is an expert?

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 17, 2014

Use of the term “slides” to represent pages. Social – Snooze. Mobile learning authoring tool – Geared towards and designed specifically to create mobile learning. A couple of vendors allow the ability to edit the language to make it more precise. Includes responsive capability. Lots of potential here.

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Authoring Tools Authoring Tools PPT 69

eLearningArt

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As an instructional designer, I’m always trying to make my eLearning courses more interesting, effective, and engaging. Having content pushed on us in the form of bullets and slides is clicking boring. Jennifer is the Community Manager at Trivantis, the company behind the Lectora eLearning authoring tool.

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Blended Learning Diversity Training eLearning Consultant Expert 40

Ed App

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Features: Course editor, Interactive platform, Slides, WYSIWYG editor, Personalized images, and more. They are a strong believer in social learning, so they will try to get social and collaborative elements to work hand in hand with your current L&D solution. Price: Free and paid plans (starts at US $200).

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learnWorlds

MAY 28, 2019

Instructional designers know the elearning course creation tools as authoring tools. Articulate storyline another top authoring tool and more suitable for newer designers for its ease of use. Storyline is a popular choice with many course creators and instructional designers choosing it as their favourite authoring tool.

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WhatFix

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

New technologies have changed how organizations produce and deliver digital learning experiences, with eLearning content authoring tools becoming a must-have solution for instructional designers and L&D teams. Chances are if the rest of your workforce is distributed, even your instructional designers work from different locations.

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Trivantis

MARCH 15, 2016

When I first started as an instructional designer in eLearning, one of the services provided by the team I was on was converting instructor-led training (ILT) to eLearning-based content. Since the “shell” is already in place, updating eLearning is simply a matter of updating pieces of information or adding in a new slide.

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

How to add Fluid Boxes to the slides. You’ll learn how these changes may impact the way you currently design for accessibility and discover what guidelines, tools, and resources you can use to develop and test your web-based content to make sure it meets these standards. Plan for the additional design and technical requirements.

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Convergence Training

MARCH 11, 2019

So the organization where I work now is a non-profit organization that covers the state of Oregon, and we offer training to people in a lot of different work areas (we call them service areas), where we have custodians, and facilities people, and a warehousing system, and educators, and social services-types of positions.

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