The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 19, 2017

The way that you combine text and image (including shapes) in a slide affects the message you convey and the visual appeal of the material.

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Infopro Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

Proposal Submissions! Prototypes! High Impact! World Class! Deadlines! Illustrations! Engaging Characters!… I’m sure you have been handed a similar brief for a task. Though the brief might not necessarily come in that order, some just start with the deadline! We often find ourselves in situations where things get complex with little time and much to deliver.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 17, 2017

Welcome back, Cadets, and Happy New Year! In this post, I’d like to focus our attention on the theory side of things. In particular, a topic whose importance in the eLearning arena was really brought to my attention by a colleague of mine named Jim Garland. Jim, spending several years working in the eLearning industry, has helped open my eyes to countless considerations that differ from my background as a traditional secondary educator.

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Content Raven

JANUARY 17, 2017

Deep concentration puts people in a state of calm while immersed in a learning activity that is so engaging that time is forgotten. Research shows that early online training curricula often transmits information ineffectively without factoring the psychology of cognitive flow.

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Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 17, 2017

Yes, I know. You’ve heard that games are very useful for learning. However, it’s less about creating a game than actually understanding what it is that people find “fun” about playing games. There is power in understanding what makes games engaging to us. Armed with that knowledge, you can use it to inform your learning designs. This table offers a quick summary.

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Allen Interactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

By Michael Allen , Chairman & CEO, Allen Interactions. Years seem so short as I’ve reached, um, maturity. And each year is shorter than the previous one. As the years fly by, I always wonder about the accomplishments of each previous year and how the coming year might contrast with it.

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TOPYX LMS

JANUARY 20, 2017

Online learning is valuable – this statement is practically inarguable. Over the past couple of decades, online learning has slowly but surely crept into nearly every type of company, organization, educational institution, nonprofit, multinational, association, and healthcare establishment. Why? The answer is simple: online learning, or eLearning, is both incredibly convenient and highly effective for adult learners.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 19, 2017

Coloring is great for kids. You probably remember coloring as a child. This entailed filling in the black and white illustrations in the book with any colors you wanted. There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 18, 2017

Like any other product or service, online course design and development must be subjected to quality control (QC) standards to ensure that its users’ needs are truly being met. But like other design-driven products, in which subjectivity plays a key role in a course’s development and execution, the quality of eLearning products can sometimes be difficult to evaluate objectively.

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Faster than ever, the world is shifting and shaping how people work, exposing and creating deep skill divides across industries and around the world. As a result, business and HR leaders are scrambling to “upskill” employees. If you’re scrambling to upskill your employees but don’t know where to start, make skills analysis a routine part of your decision-making process.

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Association eLearning

JANUARY 18, 2017

“Now that you’re in the beginning phase, you need to untap.”. When was the last time you tried explaining something you were familiar with to someone who was new to it? Maybe you were orienting a new team member, trying to summarize your favorite show, or teaching someone how to play a game. Lots of things have their own “in” terms. If you try using them with someone who has no clue what they mean you’re going to lose that person’s interest.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 16, 2017

Not every learning program is created equal. Simply putting together some courses and telling user to go through the content isn’t going to yield very good results. The most successful programs today have a plan in place. You can use a plan to start a program the ‘correct’ way, or use a plan to revive an existing program. The following phases below will apply to you in either situation.

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Raptivity

JANUARY 17, 2017

Let’s face it. No one EVER looks forward to compliance training sessions. The reason people attend compliance training sessions is same as the reason six-year-olds brush their teeth every morning. Because it’s mandatory. Compliance trainings are somewhat tricky to administer because they are not about sharing information or teaching a new skill. Instead, compliance training is usually about influencing employees to alter their behaviour favourably.

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Jane Hart

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern Workplace Learning Magazine is a new online publication that focuses on helping L&D departments do things differently and do different things in order to provide an effective service for today’s workforce. The articles will build a body of knowledge, experience and know-how for enabling and supporting learning in the modern workplace. We therefore invite workplace learning practitioners to contribute an article on how they are modernising their own approaches to workplace learning in

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Administrate

JANUARY 19, 2017

Our CEO John Peebles walks us through his humble beginnings in the professional learning industry, and shares the lessons that underpin Administrate’s direction and focus. I remember my first teaching gig vividly. Like most American university students, I needed to earn money during the summer to pay for tuition and Read More. Published on January 19, 2017.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 18, 2017

Elearning has come a long way since its early days. Specifically, it didn’t take long for instructional designers to realize that sitting through an elearning course can be boring. For the most part people like to interact with others. They want to be part of a community and feel like what they are learning matters in a practical sense. It is because of this that course developers have gone through great lengths to create a more personal learning experience.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 20, 2017

Last week, we discussed ways to manage your Personal Learning Network (PLN) without becoming overwhelmed. Once you have constructed your personal learning path , and identified the experts, resources, and websites that support your goals, now it’s time to create a plan that maximizes your learning while minimizing distractions. Remember, this is a NETWORK, and that means that information flows in more than one direction.

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eLearning Alchemy

JANUARY 18, 2017

f schools kill creativity, does corporate training kill leadership? Most of these TED Talks aren’t new; however, as an adult learning professional you may have skipped them or not considered them too deeply. The best TED Talks on education focus on reforming education for children. It’s a curious conundrum then that a lot of what we’re finding creates the best learning experiences for children is to treat them like adults.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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B Online Learning

JANUARY 15, 2017

I love Articulate Rise. I’ve made no secret about it around the office. To create a learning module that you know will look great, no matter what device is used to access it, is something that e-learning developers have been crying out for. And to make it even better, not only will it look great, but authoring content in it is a ‘snap’. Here at B Online Learning my colleagues and I have been running short overview webinars on the new Articulate Storyline 360, the Articulate 360 subscription add-

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LearnDash

JANUARY 19, 2017

If you are in the market for a learning management system then there is a good chance that your head is spinning. There are so many options out there, so many features, and so many pricing options. Whether you need an LMS for selling online courses or for internal organizational training you should be aware of the popular pricing configurations you will encounter.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 17, 2017

A couple of months ago (in November of 2016), Articulate released it’s newest eLearning tool, Articulate 360. Since then, there have been many questions about what it is, how it works, and—more particularly—how the eLearning Brothers assets and templates work within it. This past week, I held a webinar to address some of these topics. I presented some of the key features of Articulate 360, including Rise, Review and Peek, and went through Storyline 360 and the new Content Library.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 17, 2017

We're excited to have Oded Ilan, Chief Marketing Officer of Iridize , join our Guest BYTE speaker list on January 31. In support of his upcoming live learning event, " Overcoming the Forgetting Curve: New Content Creation Paradigms ," Oded shares an important introduction to the forgetting curve and it's impact on training. It would be an understatement to say that the training industry is brimming with new training technologies and tools.

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Kineo

JANUARY 19, 2017

Technology continues to develop at so rapid a pace that it’s hard for the rest of us to keep up. We want our learners to get the benefit of any new developments and to create digital training that utilises these new forms of technology. But do we run the risk of adopting these technologies before we understand their full potential or being so keen to try out the newest, shiniest thing that we miss the fact that it doesn’t have that much relevance to learning?

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LearnDash

JANUARY 17, 2017

Have you ever seen an infomercial? You know, the ones that are on loop late at night? Did you notice that nearly nearly every time they talk about the product they are selling they refer to it as a “system”, “technology”, or something similar? “Call now for your stain removal system!” or. “Get the entire non-stick kitchen pan system with patent pending technology!

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Axonify

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Axonify team headed to Las Vegas last week for ATD TechKnowledge. This annual event showcases the latest innovations in learning and performance technology, so Axonify is a perfect fit. In addition to a multitude of great conversations in the expo, the team hosted 4 sessions during the conference. I even had the chance to introduce the final keynote speaker and offer a few closing comments!

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 19, 2017

When I was a grad student, my advisor looked a lot at error. HIs particular focus was to prevent it through good interface design. He characterized them as of two types: slips and mistakes. Slips are when you have the right intent, but from elements of our architecture end up making the wrong move. Mistakes are when your intentions are wrong. From the learning perspective, it’s the latter we want to address.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 18, 2017

We have explored some new language of learning definitions this week, so let’s continue our exploration by defining a few different instructional strategies that we use on a regular basis to design, develop, deliver, produce, and facilitate our modern learning campaigns. Instructional strategies are the approaches that we use in the design, development, and delivery of learning to engage our students in learning experiences.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 19, 2017

Back in 2015, we partnered with the fine people of Common Craft and added many of their distinctive assets to our library. One of the many assets that they offer are instructional videos, presented in the unique and consistent Common Craft style we’ve come to know and love. Our collection of Common Craft instructional videos has over 80 different videos covering a variety of disparate—but equally useful—topics that can easily be applied to training in loads of modern industries.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 17, 2017

by Kevin Siegel, CTT,  COTP ,   I received the following email last week concerning Adobe Captivate and accessibility. Hi,   I’m using your  Adobe Captivate 9: Beyond the Essentials  workbook to learn how to make an eLearning module accessible and I have a question. On page 75,  Adding Accessibility Text to Slides  you state, in step 2, that …”Screen readers will not see slide background images.

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