Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2011

Better Beginnings: How to attract students’ attention in 30 seconds or less. Thanks to the eLearning Guild. Official description: Information overload, tripletasking, hyperchoice, and short attention spans are just a few of the symptoms of the modern client. These are my live blogged notes from the session.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

.” 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. Results were similar with the Cache 17 game.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 10, 2018

Do you need to refresh your eLearning course without going over budget? In this article, I’ll share 8 creative tips to reuse eLearning content with a rapid eLearning authoring tool. How To Reuse eLearning Content With A Rapid eLearning Authoring Tool. Turn Online Training Tutorials Into Interactive Demos.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, December 11, 2008 Blog-o- the-Month at ISTE Island in Second Life Imagine my surprise when Scott Merrick contacted me, letting me know that Learning Visions had been nominated as Blog-o-the-month on ISTE Island in Second Life.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 15, 2011

We’ve talked about the value of storytelling for conveying tacit knowledge in eLearning and a formula for telling stories. So once we’ve assembled an instructional story, how can we include it within an eLearning lesson? How do you tell stories in eLearning? By Shelley A. Here are a few ideas to explore. Comic Strip.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, August 07, 2007 31 Days to a Better Blog: Days 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 This whole 31 Days to a Better Blog exercise is proving harder to stay on top of than I had even imagined. Day 7: Plan a Weeks Worth of Blog Posts.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It sounded like a great source of inspiration for eLearning design.so Below is a brief explanation of each, along with ideas for how those principles could apply to eLearning. --1-- How we can apply it: This might not impact a short, stand-alone eLearning course. But what about a longer course with several eLearning lessons?

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2010

Regardless of the extent of your background in instructional design, I think just about everyone can agree that capturing learners’ attention at the start of an eLearning course (and engaging interest throughout) is critical. The Integrated Learnings: eLearning blog is brought to you by Integrated Learning Services.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2011

In other words, when taking an eLearning course, learners are most likely to remember how the course ended, although the stuff in the middle might blur together. How can we apply this principle to improve eLearning effectiveness? Ensure that the last moments of an eLearning course reinforce key content. By Shelley A.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Connie Malamed, world renowned as The eLearning Coach, and one of the better human beings in this world, interviewed me for a podcast a few weeks ago. Be sure to grab your copy of The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age.' but Connie assures me that we both sound reasonably intelligent.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 14, 2010

I see books on instructional design and eLearning, books and music that my kids will like, travel guides for my wife, the list goes on and on. Amazon's approach fits really well with instructional design. Will your audience access the eLearning course from a desktop, a laptop, a mobile device, or maybe something else?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2010

What does this mean for eLearning? We know that we should start with something that grabs the learner's attention, but many eLearning courses I've seen begin with a list of learning objectives or a very general introductory paragraph (which isn't very exciting to most learners). We hope you found this post helpful.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, Kineo hosted a live workshop in New York on rapid eLearning in the Enterprise. Our challenge is creating eLearning for teachers when they can’t install anything on their computers. That is often the closest to a learning model that most interactive designers get. (A How do I speed up the process?

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Answer: They are all deliberately designed for a generation with shorter attention spans. In this digital age, it feels impossible to work in a tech-dominated industry without coming to the conclusion that the world as a whole, especially the younger generations, have shorter attention spans than ever. One word: titles.

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Allison Rossett

APRIL 10, 2012

One tweet grabbed my attention. A researcher reported that the keyword, webinar, was searched more often than the keyword, elearning. People are seeking information about webinars more often than they are drawn to elearning. Most webinars paid scant attention to instructional design. Think about that.

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

So you want to develop an eLearning course huh? But you are not a graphic designer, and need some tips on eLearning art and design to get you started? Here is the last post of my three-part series on eLearning art and design tips for the non-designer. 5 Design Tips for Color and Style.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 28, 2016

His pioneering work in instructional design led to a systematic approach to learning that we know today as Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction. This famed nine-step process can be adapted to help instructional designers and trainers in all fields create highly-effective courses in any topic. Gain Learners’ Attention.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Training and instructional design require no special skills or competencies. Information presentation is sufficient as a training design. Bad learning designs are thought to be good learning designs.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 31, 2025

sponsored Streamline Course Creation with an eLearning Storyboard Template Tired of juggling notes, endless rewrites, and miscommunications with SMEs? Download our eLearning storyboard template to clearly organize your course content and share it with stakeholders for a quick and easy review. Listen now Wheres Mike?

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Allison Rossett

APRIL 10, 2012

One tweet grabbed my attention. A researcher reported that the keyword, webinar, was searched more often than the keyword, elearning. People are seeking information about webinars more often than they are drawn to elearning. Most webinars paid scant attention to instructional design. Think about that.

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Saffron Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2014

Illustrations are designed to break up large amounts of text, introducing fun and laughter into the process. So it makes sense that illustration remains one of the major points of graphic design. When you first looked at this blog post, I’m sure your eye was drawn to the illustrations rather than the text itself.

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Paradiso Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Good instructional design techniques can create engaging and interactive eLearning courses. One such effective methodology is the Nine Events of Instruction by Gagné, which mainly involves gaining learners’ attention, providing learning guidance, and eliciting performance.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 24, 2010

The problem usually lies with the communication and/or instructional design: how the idea is presented (or with the environment, but that's another story). If an idea never manages to reach and grab hold of its listeners, then its brilliance becomes beside the point. The good news is that it’s rarely the fault of the idea itself.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 12, 2018

We were feeling that #ThrowbackThursday vibe today, so we decided to look back at our most popular eLearning webinars from 2017 and 2018 so far. Future of eLearning – The Millennial Apocalypse and Modern Learning Solutions. Elevating eLearning Design. We all know what boring eLearning courses feel like.

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Trivantis

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Follow these 5 tips to create successful e-Learning—designed especially for the brain: Engage them, and they’ll learn. For tips on getting your learners active and engaged in your online training, read this blog on How to Make Compliance Training More Fun. Learning is more effective if it’s done actively, rather than passively.

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Answer: They are all deliberately designed for a generation with shorter attention spans. In this digital age, it feels impossible to work in a tech-dominated industry without coming to the conclusion that the world as a whole, especially the younger generations, have shorter attention spans than ever. One word: titles.

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Learnnovators

JULY 23, 2014

Her advice and designs have been used by organizations that include Microsoft, Pfizer, the US Army, Barclays, and the US Department of the Interior. She’s the creator of the action mapping model of training design used to improve performance by companies worldwide. She’s also an in-demand webinar presenter with an irreverent style.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 23, 2017

Before we dive in and diagnose why your learners didn’t learn, grab a piece of real or digital paper. Did you have “complete an eLearning course,” or “play (insert name) learning game that my boss recommended to me” on your list? What effort, skill, time, and planning is required to design, produce?

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Web Courseworks

JANUARY 31, 2017

Whether it’s the first touch, renewing members, or reaching out to past members, your goal is to engage that individual and hold their attention. You could have the best blog, outreach campaign, or whitepaper, but then what? Once you have their attention, what are you doing with it? Adopt a mobile-first approach.

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Learnnovators

JULY 23, 2014

Her advice and designs have been used by organizations that include Microsoft, Pfizer, the US Army, Barclays, and the US Department of the Interior. She’s the creator of the action mapping model of training design used to improve performance by companies worldwide. She’s also an in-demand webinar presenter with an irreverent style.

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Elucidat

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We’ve looked at the cost of learning time , and now we are turning to the optimal length of a piece of elearning. Session time is the actual amount of time spent on a website or piece of elearning. Why elearning session time matters. Your elearning can be completed in one session and then put into practice immediately.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. I tagged some of the resources I found on deli.ci.ous, which youre free to grab yourself. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Ill do the same for you!)

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Mindflash

APRIL 27, 2010

By adding the element of surprise to your training, you open the door to unforeseen possibilities, create curiousity, and generate a sense of anticipation – all of which lead to increased attention levels. Pay close attention to how he uses the expectations of the audience to generate excitement when revealing the iPad’s pricing.

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Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As more organizations make efforts to grab a share of this $70 billion pie, we will list down ‘Ten Advantages of Mobile Learning’ in this blog post. In terms of cost and efforts, designing mobile learning is less expensive than designing a traditional eLearning program or a regular instructor-led training program.

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ICS Learning

MARCH 18, 2016

A few weeks ago we posted a blog offering helpful hints for using video in eLearning. Storytelling: Videos are particularly effective at capturing the imagination and attention of users through the use of characters that guide the audience and ask them to take an action.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I’m a longtime Snagit lover, back to my early days designing eLearning in state government with no budget. I noticed the promised confirmation email had not arrived so thought I’d better grab this before leaving the website. Image for a blog post on designing instruction for novice v. expert learners.

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OpenSesame

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

If you’re visiting the OpenSesame website, chances are you’re considering buying an elearning course. The truth is there are many ways to evaluate elearning courses. Screen elements that “pop out” are the ones that are most likely to grab our brain’s conscious attention. But how do you know if a course is “good?”

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