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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. put a placeholder shape where an image is supposed to go and write a short description on the shape like, “Stethoscope image”. If you’d like to read more about instructional design best practices, check out the rest of this author’s blogs. That’s a better question.

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DevLearn 2024 Recap

Experiencing eLearning

For this blog post, I also used Claude LLM to review my handwritten notes and pull out key points. Key points: Don’t just gain attention at the start of training. Gain attention over and over throughout the training. Another point was improving your writing because “readability is a good proxy for learnability.”

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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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2025’s Top Instructional Design Models You Simply Can’t Ignore

Hurix Digital

In this blog, we will talk about instructional design models that revolutionize how we approach education and training so you can be better prepared. By customizing content and learning materials to cater to all kinds of learners, ID enables education, and not a mere transfer of knowledge, possible.

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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. Seriously though, you can think of it as using an infographic, chart, or quick sketch to record information or figure out how things are connected, rather than writing everything out. Why People Like Visuals. Visual Appeal.

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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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Ruth Clark Claims “Games Don’t Teach”

Experiencing eLearning

” It’s a deliberately provocative title, meant to draw attention and cause controversy. A more accurate title would be “Some Games Aren’t Effective at Making People Remember Content,” but that’s a lot less likely to grab attention. I respect her past contributions to the field.

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