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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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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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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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How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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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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Online Marketing for E-learning Part I: Content

LearnDash

You have to be producing content in the form of blogs, videos, infographics, and even podcasts, if you want to draw attention and stand out from the crowd. Or, in online terms: podcasts, videos, and blogs. Of all of these, blogs are the lowest-cost to produce, but they also require strong writing skills.

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