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Stop Making These 5 Mistakes in Your e-Learning

Trivantis

Before you send that e-Learning course to your boss for approval, take a moment and make sure you’re not guilty of these five common e-Learning mistakes. Lack of Learning Objectives. There’s no substitute for writing proper learning objectives. And who doesn’t want a successful e-Learning course?

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How to Develop Training Materials the Right Way [Free PDF Guide]

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Start With Your Learning Objective. If you don’t have an overall objective for your training program , start with that. Once you’ve identified an objective, you can use it to write specific goals for your training material development. What, specifically, will they learn? What’s your ultimate goal?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Client is Addicted: Audio in eLearning

Learning Visions

The biggest thing I would like to see is that we add some voiceover on just about all of the slides. Weve played that same tug-of-war: audio that reads the text on the screen is the equivalent of a presenter reading her slides, and yet people expect audio, even when its just a voiceover. on just about all slides. Take the Survey!

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The Beginners Guide to Successful Video Pre Production

TechSmith Camtasia

Learning Objects vs. Outcomes: Narrow the Focus. I was recently in a conference workshop with Shannon Tipton (Learning Rebels). She made a bold statement, which was to the effect: Throw out the learning objective and focus on what you want the learner to actually do. This is key to making a good video. No worries!

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Elements of Engaging eLearning Design

Origin Learning

In this blog post, we examine some of the key elements of engaging eLearning Design. One can develop the most beautiful layouts, interesting animated characters, add soothing background music, and great voiceover narratives; but unless the content is powerful and engaging; the program will not work. Structure First – Design Later.

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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

The Learning Dispatch

Kevin Gumienny is our senior learning architect and leads Microassist’s instructional design team. He frequently shares about accessible elearning development through our Learning Dispatch blog and newsletter. For more on this topic, see Grove’s blog posts on accessibility business case arguments ).

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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

The Learning Dispatch

For more on this topic, see Grove’s blog posts on accessibility business case arguments ). For example, there are presentations on how to write great alt text. If the learning objectives require a test item that would not be accessible (a drag-and-drop activity, for example), is there a plan to provide an accessible alternative?