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SMEs Shouldn’t Write Branching Scenarios (And What To Do Instead)

Experiencing eLearning

Instructional designers and training managers sometimes ask me, “How do I train SMEs to write better branching scenarios?” I believe SMEs shouldn’t write branching scenarios. Instead, I think we as instructional designers and LXDs should interview the SMEs as part of our analysis, and then we should write it.

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AI Tools, Games, Freelancing: ID Links 2/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

I share these links periodically here on my blog. ElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI This is another provider of an AI voice over tool (besides the more well-known WellSaid Labs and Murf.AI). The voices in the short samples sound very realistic; this could work for at least short narration.

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Storyline Accessibility and Mayer’s Principles

Scissortail's Learning Nest

If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell. To Autoplay or Not to Autoplay Because audio narration can overlap with a screen reader voice, the standard is not to autoplay any audio or video. The University of Hartford also has a useful one-pager.

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Closed Caption Tools

Experiencing eLearning

When I work in Storyline, I often use the TTS voices for the alpha version. That automatically generates captions that can be retained when replacing the audio with real voices, but again, the captions break awkwardly. My blog posts are written manually by me unless I post something like this; everything above is my own writing.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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7 Reasons Your E-Learning Website Needs a Blog

LearnDash

Blogging is one of the oldest marketing tools on the Internet—and still one of the best. Yes, I am talking about blogging. The blog has been a foundation of Internet culture practically since its inception. However, your blog doesn’t have to be massively popular as a blog to be wildly successful as a marketing tool.

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Voice-over videos for eLearning: A step-by-step guide

TalentLMS

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “ voice-over video? ”. Voice-over is an extremely versatile type of video and can be used on anything from movie trailers to college lectures to, of course, corporate training. But how would you even go about creating an eLearning voice-over? A lecture?

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