Hurix Digital

MAY 4, 2025

Thus, take some time to think about what specific knowledge or skills you want learners to gain after taking this course. To learn more about Hurix Digitals innovative solutions, click here. Those goals tell students what they can expect to learn during the course. Also, ask yourself questions like, What are the desired results?

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SweetRush

APRIL 14, 2025

SweetRushs Transformational Design Standards provide 8 lenses to evaluate learning experience design to ensure that it brings about learner transformation. One of the most common is accommodating differences of opinion between subject matter experts (often senior leaders) and L&D stakeholders about what should be taught to whom.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We spent most of our time talking about tools for drafting and building branching scenarios: Twine Google Forms Miro BranchTrack ChatMapper. Betty and I also talked about the process for creating branching scenarios, working with SMEs, and other helpful resources. We discussed the pros and cons and when each tool would make sense.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 24, 2025

Its not just about launch dayits about setting up a learning experience that learners want to return to. It’s about integrating impact into the DNA of all learning initiativesnot an afterthought. Phase 4: Launching and Learning Starting Strong and Listening Early An impactful launch combines clarity with excitement.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts. Scenario-based learning can affect emotions to make participants care about the content and keep them engaged. Presentations on scenario-based learning.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As always, the Coffee Chat group was full of honest insights about their challenges. Curious about how your peers are navigating these changes? HBR wrote an excellent article about “How to Embrace Change Using Emotional Intelligence. But here’s the kicker: it’s not just about communication.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While we often think about training and elearning in terms of “seat time,” that’s not a good measure for branching scenarios. Example 3: The chat simulation I built earlier this year is also about 50 passages, comparable to the large branching scenario. One of the biggest considerations is the size of the scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 26, 2022

While there were other discussions about how to encourage adoption of xAPI, get the right data, and present it in a way that helps guide decisions, I got something very specific out of the conversation. We do have limitations that we can’t necessarily change, but our beliefs about those limitations are within our control.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 25, 2022

This came up in a discussion on LinkedIn about whether visual appeal leads to better learning outcomes. (h/t h/t Sarah Mercier) While this isn’t about learning, it’s about usability–and that is important in how people perceive and interact with elearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

We talked about everything freelance: knowing when to start, time tracking, finding clients, creating an LLC, pricing projects, making sure clients are the right fit, and more. Questions answered about everything freelance. On my ID careers page, I list a number of past posts about consulting, freelancing, and remote work.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 21, 2023

Is that really the best way to communicate with learners about the goals of training? Use focusing objectives, not learning objectives I agree that we should tell learners what training is about. Focusing objectives help learners know what training is about and what’s important. No, I think we can do better.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve gotten several questions about nonbinary pronouns and gender diversity in scenarios. Sometimes, people ask about using “gender neutral” characters in scenarios like in this question. We’re talking about specific individuals, we should get their pronouns right.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Their goal is to make learning about money simple, covering topics that arent taught in most schools like budgeting, investing, financial strategies, insurance, and estate planning. And along the way, if you have any questions about making your course a reality, were always here to help ! Give LearnDash a try in our demo !

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I wrote about 30 new blog posts this year and updated about 20 older posts. How to Learn about Learning Science. How do you learn about learning science? This was a follow-up post from a Twitter debate about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I have also recorded several conversations about instructional design careers, freelancing, and other topics. We spent most of our time talking about tools for drafting and building branching scenarios: Twine, Google Forms, Miro, BranchTrack, ChatMapper. We talked about branching scenarios and Choose Your Own Adventure stories.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, Tracy Parish did a great job talking about how elearning isn’t supposed to be fun, it’s supposed to be torture. I’ve forgotten the actual title I was given, but the topic was about how you should add more bullet points to your elearning. The best ones really lean into whatever terrible topic it is.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We talked about my transition from band teacher to freelance LXD consultant. Holly asked about the “feast or famine” cycle in freelancing, and I talked about strategies to address that. We talk about Christy’s journey from band teacher to freelance ID. Yes, she is a transitioned teacher too!

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2021

Prior to this, the longest I ever held a job was about 3 years. I work with experts in fields I’d never even thought about prior to those projects. When my daughter was in preschool, I continued to work only about 25-30 hours per week. Not everything about consulting is perfect though. The Ups of Consulting.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last week, an ID asked me about my writing process. Lots of text here–need to think about what needs to be included and how Looks like lots of changing to plain language Make a list of all terms used: need to create a glossary for terms and acronyms Note picture of [something from the course].

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Get specific about what the behavior is and what it looks or sounds like. Ask about mistakes Once you have the details on the desired behavior, ask your SME about mistakes. Ask about consequences Then, ask about the consequences of those mistakes. Where I really disagree is about writing the scenario itself.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I recently got a question from a reader about how long a branching scenario should be. That means you’re probably looking at about 3 times the length it would be for linear content. Instead of 45 minutes, you’d need about 135 minutes of audio. Interested in reading more about this topic? Looking for more?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2022

We answered questions about both instructional design career pathways and where instructional design may be heading in the future. What do you dislike most about your profession? Which organizations should I look into joining or learning more about? On the panel with me was Val Quezada , ISD at Takeda Los Angeles.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Hear Bela Gaytan, Kayleen Holt, Bridget Brown, Devin Torres and others speak about inclusive learning. This is about what information you need to get from SMEs (context, decisions, misconceptions, consequences, models for good performance). So, first, let’s talk about the structure of a mini-scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

else-if:$score >= 5)[''Not bad'' You pushed back on some of the stakeholder feedback, but you could have done more to educate your stakeholder about good instructional design. You can educate stakeholders about the rationale behind your design decisions rather than accepting every suggestion. More on Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While most of the the presentations, webinars, and podcast interviews that I do relate to scenario-based learning , I have also spoken with multiple groups about instructional design careers and freelancing. This post is a collection of all of my presentations and podcasts about instructional design careers and freelancing.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2024

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Joanie Musser about AI in learning and development for the Mindset to Learn podcast. In season 2 of her podcast, Joanie is highlighting a series of interviews about AI and how it affects our field. We talked about the tools I actually use like Midjourney and Claude.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While this is about making more complex games in Twine, much of this could apply to building more complex branching scenarios and simulations too. 6 Things Video Games Can Teach You About Writing Engaging Scenarios – E-Learning Heroes. Things that make them think hard about what the best option could be.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If you’re not active in L&D Twitter, you might have missed the big debate recently about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals. I want to be able to respond intelligently about better strategies for microlearning and learning with video. Development.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The reward Let’s see how it works with a scenario about conflict management. However, if you loved the original books and are curious about the history, it is interesting. This article is about a method for both clearly identifying your projects and tasks as well as organizing the resources to support them. The entrance 2.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 25, 2024

This means backing up to the beginning and thinking more deeply about what quality means to your organization. Hadiya speaks from experience about anticipating obstacles and resistance. She’s honest about the challenges about trying to plan and implement a new system while your team also works on all of your regular projects.

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