Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 27, 2024

ChatGPT was #4 on the list last year, and I expect that more AI tools This image, like many on my blog recently, was created in Midjourney, with text added in Affinity Designer. I have primarily been using it for my blog and for personal samples and experimentation, but I have started using it for client projects as well.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 28, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. This post includes links related to AI, accessibility, storytelling, troubleshooting Storyline, PowerPoint design tips, freelancing, animation, and translation. For translating elearning, that means we have to keep in mind the extra space needed when we design.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

Affinity Designer. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. PowerPoint. For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 12, 2019

If you’re hoping to move into a career in instructional design, chances are you need to learn some of the common technology. This is part 4 in a series about how to become an instructional designer. The IconLogic blog has tips on Captivate, Storyline, Camtasia, RoboHelp, and more. Authoring Tools. Photos and Images.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Blogging, presenting, and other forms of sharing expertise I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about scenario-based learning, instructional design, and other topics. Last year, I spent about 10 hours each month on my blog. 75% of those found me via my blog; the rest found me on LinkedIn.

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Thinkdom

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this blog post, we explore the intricate balance between quality and speed in rapid e-learning content creation. For instance, it is designed to meet the most immediate learning needs based on emerging trends, industry regulations, or changing market dynamics. The demand for effective e-learning content has never been higher.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 26, 2014

My list is divided into personal learning and course design/development. WordPress is my blog host. Course Design/Development. Microsoft Word isn’t exactly the most glamorous tool here, but it is a tool I use regularly for design documents, storyboards, and other projects for clients. Personal Learning.

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Paradiso

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Dedicated graphics and instructional designers. UI designed for ‘touch screen’ mobiles. They offer the possibility to create content with features like Instructional Design, Voice Talents, Articulate Tools, Video, Screen Simulations or different scenarios in which you will be able to develop your content. B Online Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The eLearning Learning site got a major upgrade a few weeks ago, with a new design that has more of a magazine feel and shows more images. eLearning Learning is a great site to get a snapshot of what people are talking about in the field without being as overwhelming as subscribing to dozens of individual blogs can be.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

Everyone working in instructional design, learning experience design, or elearning should have a portfolio. This post on building an instructional design portfolio includes what to include and additional tips. iSpring Free is basically a PowerPoint presentation plus a quiz, but this might be an option for simple samples.

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Brilliant Teams

JULY 24, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital world, traditional PowerPoint presentations often fall short of meeting the dynamic training needs of modern organisations. This blog will explore the process of converting PowerPoint to eLearning, the benefits of this transformation, and the customised eLearning solutions available in Australia.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 23, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. This post includes links related to AI, DEI and accessibility, Twine, freelancing, storyboarding, visual design, facilitation, and books for IDs. I’m experimenting with AI image tools to create images for my blog posts. Check out this library of facilitation techniques.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 28, 2014

by AJ Walther      Want to design something that looks fresh and modern? You may want to consider Flat Design. Flat design is an aesthetic that rids the design of any three dimensional attributes. Here are a few examples of how clip art images can be reimagined into flat design.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the TLDC online event “From Instructional Design to Dungeons and Dragons: The Chronicles of Educaria,” we connected the game and role-playing aspects of D&D with instructional design and training. You can zoom in to view the design on their website. I also shared some sources for character images.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

AUGUST 26, 2024

My Top 10 Tools for Learning I narrowed my list to ten tools for learning experience design and development I use in my day-to-day work. Microsoft Word I use Word for creating facilitator and participant guides for instructor-led training, drafting blog posts, taking notes, writing scripts, and creating storyboards. Okay, rant over.)

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Infopro Learning

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this blog post we will share with you the details of the top 4 types of tools you can use to develop custom eLearning programs today. To use these tools, instructional designers simply log into the application online from whichever device they choose. Generally, one designer can work on a piece of content at a single time.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2014

If you watch a video on YouTube to learn how to install Windows on your PC or how to bake a cake; if you read a blog to understand how to tether your mobile as a Wi-Fi hotspot, you are already micro-learning. Blog Posts. Blogs are also very useful when it comes to applying micro-learning for online training. Like our post ?

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Today there are a countless number of tips and tricks when it comes to effective online course design, that it can become confusing where to start. Enter the “Guide to Online Course Design” infographic by MindFlash. As this inforgraphic details, there are a large range of tools available at your disposal, such as: Blogs.

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Making Change

JUNE 10, 2013

We help each client identify exactly how the organization’s performance is suffering and how our project will measurably, observably, provably improve that performance, because we’re here to make a difference, not to put 97,000 PowerPoint slides online. We design activities, not information. Instructional design process'

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We all have a boss and even our best ideas require an explanation, so before you get an LMS, start designing courses, and tracking learner progress, you’ll need to get his or her approval. How about an instructional designer? An instructional designer knows how to present information in a way that makes sense to your learners.

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

It’s important to realize that these can mean one thing to you and your association and something different to an eLearning vendor or instructional designer. This often requires the use of different navigation, user interfaces, and visual design in general. Innovative/ Creative/ Different. This is the ultimate goal of all eLearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. The image above was generated in Midjourney, with text added in Affinity Designer. This tool lets you adjust the gestures for the presentation, as well as generating scripts from links or PowerPoint presentations. DeepBrain AI Generate avatar videos from text.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Articles and Blog Entries of Interest. Matching the Right Design Strategy to the Right Content. Storytelling and Instructional Design. Information on how to add notes right within PowerPoint. Take Notes Right on a PowerPoint Slide from Karl Kapp. Matching the Right Game Type to the Right Strategy.

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

eLearning Authoring Tool: PowerPoint. Many eLearning authoring tools use PowerPoint directly or are based on it. By themselves, however, PowerPoint files don’t use any eLearning standards like SCORM or xAPI. eLearning Authoring Tool Type: PowerPoint Add-ins. You essentially work in PowerPoint like you normally would.

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

They have PowerPoints that have been used in prior general sessions. The “what if we” was, what if we converted the overheads to PowerPoint? 3) Seek out industry professionals who could put video to your printed content and PowerPoints. They have videos sitting in a closet. This program sat dormant for 2 years with none sold.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 31, 2015

12+ Books for Instructional Designers. Learning Experience Design: A Better Title Than Instructional Design? 20+ More Books for Instructional Designers. No, I Won’t “Tweak” Your PowerPoint Slides. What does an instructional designer do? Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary.

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Association eLearning

JUNE 21, 2017

Throw a PowerPoint together; it’ll be better than nothing. Even the best designers and trainers will struggle to produce solid learning materials when there’s no time and, often, little to no budget. If you’d like to read more about training, learning, and instructional design check out the rest of this author’s blogs.

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Making Change

DECEMBER 12, 2012

a) Clear your schedule and open your PowerPoint converter software. The questions will be designed to: Uncover the client’s business goal — discover how the project will measurably change the organization’s performance. I’m blowing the dust off this blog, so you’ll be seeing more frequent posts.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I've been doing a bit of research recently and came across the  Yu-kai Chou  & Gamification Blog. If you're interested in gamification in general, you should definitely add this blog to your RSS feed.   Image source:  [link]     White Hat versus Black Hat.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can use its authoring features and pre-designed layouts, themes and templates to create engaging and interactive content for tablet devices or smart phones. It uses PowerPoint to develop rich mobile content and also has plug-in to add surveys, quizzes, assessments, and rich media such as streaming video, ePubs, and Adobe PDFs.

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Paradiso

MARCH 20, 2025

Whether for corporate training, academic instruction, or self-paced online courses, these tools empower educators and organizations to design, develop, and distribute high-quality eLearning content. These tools enable educators and instructional designers to develop content without requiring advanced programming skills.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 24, 2014

by AJ Walther    In my three-hour mini session on  Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning and Design , I discuss how to create your own eLearning characters using PowerPoint. I was not alone in creating my own PowerPoint eLearning characters! Create your own character in PowerPoint and  send it to me.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 20, 2024

I use templates for a lot of instructional design and elearning work, including design documents, storyboards, Storyline layouts and interactions. In fact, I don’t even create a traditional storyboard in Word or PowerPoint to draft my branching scenarios.

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This blog post shares some tips and tricks to help write your narration scripts. I get a lot of courses to review and sometimes they are just rehashed PowerPoints with no thinking about the learners experience. This was one of those ‘aha’ moments I had when I first started out designing elearning modules.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

Not only does this allow creative individuals with limited technical expertise to develop learning content, but it also allows for collaboration on learning design, by allowing multiple people to review it parallelly. Responsive design capabilities are available in the most rapid eLearning authoring tools.

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BrightCarbon

JULY 12, 2024

Unsurprisingly not many of us have degrees in making really great PowerPoints, so what did you do before you joined BrightCarbon? And who doesn’t have a couple of obscure jobs along the way – an office manager and product designer in the solar power industry. You know that we’re an interesting bunch here at BrightCarbon.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

by AJ George  If you need to create an Infographic, there are better programs than PowerPoint that you could use. That being said, PowerPoint is likely on your office computer right now. Additionally, PowerPoint is often underutilized as a design platform and is surprisingly agile.

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