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Professional Organizations for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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5 Tips for Effective eLearning Design and Development

CommLab India

People can design and develop eLearning courses for years yet might not find them to be effective. To ensure you aren’t one of them, here are the 5 tips to help you ensure effective eLearning design and development. Succeed!

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A Collaborative Approach to eLearning Instructional Design and Product Design

eLearningMind

Most of the time, and especially when instructional design is done in-house, the teams for instructional design and product design and development work together. Designers get a better sense of how to apply written content. Each one is neatly stored in its own box, and any collaboration takes place “over the wall.”

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How to Incorporate Accessibility into Course Design

ansrsource - Accelerating Better Ways to Learn!

Course designers play a key role in accessibility compliance. By considering accessibility in the design phase, you can save time and provide a better experience for all learners. Here are some ideas for incorporating accessibility into your course design. Accessibility is not just for QA testers and developers.

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How to Create Engaging eLearning Through Visual Design

Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Freelance eLearning Designer

The effectiveness of any eLearning course is only as good as its instructional design. But can instructional design alone make an eLearning course engaging and effective? The truth is, good eLearning design is more than just instructional design. February 25th, 2020 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 8:30 PM GMT

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Game Design, ChatGPT Prompts: ID Links 6/6/23

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on game design, branching scenario tools and templates, ChatGPT prompts for ID, AI tools, learning science, engagement, and the “magic email” for freelancers and consultants. When designing eLearning games using interactive stories, ask yourself the following six questions: What’s the point?

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Three Tips To Designing Business-Aligned Learning

eLearning Industry

The key to designing learning aligned to business performance results is to spend time up front to understand the learner, the business need, and the problem to be solved. Learning that does not align with business needs seldom offers value. This article offers three tips to do so. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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4 Ways to Close the Learning-Doing Gap for Front-Line Managers

Download this guide to gain key insights into why so many programs fall short and learn 4 key principles for designing an effective solution. It’s well documented that people leave managers – not companies.

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Authentic eLearning Localization: Challenges and Best Practices

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward (and sometimes disastrous) learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to ensure optimal results. The common challenges instructional designers and other learning professionals come across when implementing localization. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk?”

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Technology to Support and Empower Users With Disabilities

From MacBooks to iPads to iPhones and all things in-between, schools around the globe have found that Apple devices’ ease of use, robust design, and thoughtful creative and educational features are absolutely essential in the classroom. Apple products have been synonymous with education.

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Transform Your Classroom with Apple

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

Apple empowers educators and students by design. Whether using Macs, iPads, or Apple TV, Apple devices encourage creativity and can simplify teaching with apps to make the classroom more flexible, collaborative and personalized for each student.

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Choose Your Own Course Sharing Adventure with Content Controller

Speaker: Andy Whitaker, Rustici Software

Every company has unique challenges and different needs when it comes to designing a training content delivery strategy. With Content Controller, you can choose to centralize content internally across your ecosystem or license and distribute content across 3rd-party systems.

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning)

According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning. According to multiple studies, gamification strategies have been proven to increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, and get stellar results, but what if your results just don’t hit the mark?

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Everyone Wins! How Games Can Improve Learning Outcomes Across Multiple Generations

Speaker: Stephen Baer, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency

More and more instructional designers are asking what games they should use to increase the effectiveness of their training and to engage their target audience. Nearly 70% of American adults play video games. Because games provide a fun, motivational, and risk-free medium to compete, collaborate, and conquer.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?