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Placeholder Images: Do They Help or Hurt in an eLearning Storyboard?

Association eLearning

Draw attention away from the rest of a storyboard’s content. So, here are some ideas for how to make the best of placeholders and minimize possible problems. put a placeholder shape where an image is supposed to go and write a short description on the shape like, “Stethoscope image”. But how can they hurt a project?

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Visuals and Visual Thinking

Association eLearning

And something that looks good is going to get more attention than something that looks sloppy or complicated. Have you ever sketched something out on the back of a napkin or drawn a mindmap to keep track of ideas during a brainstorming session? Here are a few ideas: Road signs. Why People Like Visuals. Visual Appeal.

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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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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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Writing books

Clark Quinn

A lot, obviously (7 books, numerous articles, this blog, white papers, …). As another colleague who just published posted some thoughts on what they learned, I realize it may be appropriate to toss out some thoughts on writing books. I know some of the barriers to writing a book, for sure. Same with writing.

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Caveat Malarkey

Clark Quinn

If you’ve been paying attention, you will have seen that a number of my blog posts take down a variety of articles that are rife with malarkey. These are things like the attention span of a goldfish, learning styles, generations/digital natives, etc. Get someone to write your articles who knows what they’re talking about.

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Prompting Tips, AI Tools: ID Links 7/2/24

Experiencing eLearning

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. Unlike content safety or PII defects which have a lot of attention and thus seldom occur, factual inconsistencies are stubbornly persistent and more challenging to detect. Plus, they don’t require much additional time, effort, or resources once you learn how to write them.

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