Open Source eLearning Tools
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 13, 2010
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Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best
Association eLearning
MARCH 30, 2016
Quality assurance, or QA as it is better known, is a vastly important yet surprisingly underappreciated aspect of eLearning. In this series of blog posts, we’ll explore how vital QA is to the success of your learners, your product, and your business. We’ll cover that more in-depth in a later blog post. Chapter 1: The Basics.
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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.
ID Reflections
MAY 10, 2010
Similar post in this blog: In Response: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09--Part I 5. Comments on other blog(s) regarding qualities of an ID: Perfect Behaviour 6. Blog posts have waxed eloquent about the roles and functions of an ID. ID = Instructional Design b. BA = Business Analyst c. PS = Performance Support d.
What does an instructional designer do?
Paradiso Solutions
JUNE 8, 2021
Let’s dive deep into this topic and discuss more on instructional design essentials in this blog. Designing a storyboard. After framing learning goals, and course outline creation, the next task of an instructional designer, is designing a storyboard. Here we are concluding our blog on what does an instructional designer do?
12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool
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Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.
Avoiding Confusion During Reviews
Association eLearning
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Reviews generally take place at two points, the storyboard and the actual course. Reviewing a Storyboard. Storyboards are often made in Word or PowerPoint. Ask for a walkthrough of how to read the storyboard format. This is an important part of most storyboards, but it is often skipped or misunderstood in reviews.
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Avoiding Confusion During Reviews
Association eLearning
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Reviews generally take place at two points, the storyboard and the actual course. Reviewing a Storyboard. Storyboards are often made in Word or PowerPoint. Ask for a walkthrough of how to read the storyboard format. This is an important part of most storyboards, but it is often skipped or misunderstood in reviews.
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10 Tips to Earn Money as an eLearning Professional
Trivantis
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Maybe you are highly experienced with a particular LMS , or you are one of the top experts in storyboard creation in your market. Clients are willing to pay for the high quality deliverable you can provide, thanks to your knowledge and dedication. Know the difference between challenging projects and overly difficult ones. .
Content Skill and Scale: Storyboarding Best Practices
Infopro Learning
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Storyboarding is like planning before creating an online learning course. Whether you’re a project manager, instructional designer, learning experience expert, graphic designer, or content creator, understanding and implementing storyboarding best practices can significantly enhance your project’s quality and efficiency.
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The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs
eFront
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/21/2010 The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs After a long research, I have created a list of the most updated and popular e-learning blogs regarding e-learning.
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Spice Up a Serious Blog by Making It Interactive
Raptivity
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
We all love reading good blogs and many of us enjoy writing them too. Raptivity team recently received a query from a prospect asking if he could use Raptivity to make his blog post interactive. I picked a blog by one of our Interactive Learning Thought Leaders, Desiree Pinder. A personalized interactive blog!
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2025’s Top Instructional Design Models You Simply Can’t Ignore
Hurix Digital
MAY 23, 2025
In this blog, we will talk about instructional design models that revolutionize how we approach education and training so you can be better prepared. Development: This step is on developing learning elements using tools and storyboards. According to a report , instructional designer roles are expected to grow 11% between 2016 and 2026.
Transform Your PowerPoint Presentations into eLearning Courses
Brilliant Teams
JULY 24, 2024
This blog will explore the process of converting PowerPoint to eLearning, the benefits of this transformation, and the customised eLearning solutions available in Australia. In today’s fast-paced digital world, traditional PowerPoint presentations often fall short of meeting the dynamic training needs of modern organisations.
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Why I Don’t Use Templates for Branching Scenarios
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. In fact, I use a simple gauntlet scenario as one of the samples on my blog.
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What I Learned at LSCon 2019
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 9, 2019
I have been reading Ashley Chiasson’s blog for years, so I was excited to get to meet her as well. This is a larger topic than I can address here; it needs its own blog post. I’m fairly streamlined with templates for storyboards, but my processes for development could be better documented.
Best Practices for Instructional Design in eLearning
Raptivity
MARCH 13, 2014
As technology progresses, assuring the quality of educational experience continues to increase in significance. This blog highlights some valuable nuggets of information from an ID’s perspective to help you build and deliver high-quality eLearning material. Draft a storyboard from start to finish.
75 Free Tools That Power Up Custom eLearning Development
Thinkdom
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In today's fast-paced digital world, creating high-quality learning content is essential to engage learners and ensure knowledge retention. Adobe Stock Images : A library of high-quality stock photos, videos, and templates for enhancing visual content. Related: Scenario-Based eLearning For Posh Compliance Training 6.
76 Tools That Power Up Custom eLearning Development
Thinkdom
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In today's fast-paced digital world, creating high-quality learning content is essential to engage learners and ensure knowledge retention. Adobe Stock Images : A library of high-quality stock photos, videos, and templates for enhancing visual content. Related: Scenario-Based eLearning For Posh Compliance Training 6.
Elearning storyboarding: How to plan engaging online courses (free template)
Elucidat
MARCH 28, 2025
With Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) now able to work directly into these tools, you might wonder: Is it time to ditch the elearning storyboard? Table of contents What is an elearning storyboard? Why use storyboards in elearning development? Why use storyboards in elearning development? Will each page be interactive enough?
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LHRCon 2024 Recap
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 30, 2024
Leo noted that the quality of images degrades when you use more tokens, so more complex image prompts are more likely to have flaws. I have live blogged notes from a webinar of Karin’s that I attended in 2014!) Among other tools, he recommended Leonardo.ai for image generation, which was new to me.
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Making Smarter Design Easier: Introducing CourseArc’s AI Features
CourseArc
MAY 7, 2025
Making Smarter Design Easier: Introducing CourseArcs AI Features Educators, instructional designers, and content creators alike are navigating tight timelines, growing content demands, and the constant push to create high-quality, accessible learning experiences. At CourseArc, we believe AI should support your process, not disrupt it.
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Upside Learning
MARCH 29, 2011
Instructional Design Review Checklists – Key to Quality E-learning. In any e-learning development company, storyboards and e-learning courses go through rounds of testing to ensure desired quality levels. Find a wealth of blog posts on e-learning testing here. Learning is the new work.
Our Top 10 Learning Tools 2009
Upside Learning
JUNE 4, 2009
MS Word: This is our preferred tool for storyboarding. It produces output in high-quality videos for DVD formats, streaming videos (web), and also for mobile devices used for video-based training programs. The best thing about this tool is the support available on forums and blogs.
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The Dangerous Myth of the “All-in-One” LMS
LearnDash
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
While many of these objectives can be shared, in the end there are unique qualities about every organization that aren’t considered by LMS providers. Your fundamental core qualities. You use e-learning storyboarding. This isn’t a knock against LMS providers. But how do you know what you need?
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A-Z of Digital Learning
The Learning Rooms
APRIL 11, 2025
Learner engagement measures the quality and quantity of a learners participation in a course. Q Quality Standards. Guidelines to ensure defined standards of quality in content, accessibility, user interface and design are met. Quality and Qualifications Ireland. Storyboard. B Blended Learning. E Engagement.
How AI Will Affect Instructional Design: My Thoughts Right Now
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Faster creation of lower quality content isn’t a win for the L&D field. For example, Claude is really good at taking big storyboards or scripts and turning them into nicely formatted voice over scripts with file names. I’m putting these early thoughts on my blog now with the intention to revisit this down the road.
How To Design eLearning That Delivers Results With Tim Slade
TechSmith Camtasia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
So, instead of focusing on the end result, focus on the quality of your content. I wrote a book through that experience teaching these people how to become eLearning designers… all of my content was super practical about managing stakeholders and managing projects and creating storyboards and prototypes. ”.
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7 Tech Tools & Skills Trainers Must Have
TalentLMS
MARCH 17, 2016
The overwhelming surge in popular social media hangouts like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Snapchat, Google+, YouTube, as well as the true power that blogs have, all tell us where the potential learners are. Online applications like Prezi, PowToon, goAnimate, Google Slides and Storyboard That! Social Media for eLearning.
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Unlocked: The OpenSesame Blog's Greatest Hits of 2014
OpenSesame
DECEMBER 8, 2014
We’ve grown our blog significantly in 2014, with this being the first full year of our commitment to posting five times per week! Each week, I send out a weekly blog summary to our team to make sure everyone here at OpenSesame keeps up with what we’re doing in the world of blogging and marketing. By: Sharlyn Lauby. .
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Building eLearning Scenarios in Working Sessions with SMEs
Integrated Learnings
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
The storytelling quality of scenarios helps make the lessons learned in training memorable. Before meeting with the client, I created a storyboard of the eLearning lesson to lay out the intended structure of the scenario. I typed the dialog into the storyboard while the SME answered my questions. By Shelley A. And so on.
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“It’s Like Writing a Play:” Make Screencasts Painless with Storyboards, Scripts
TechSmith Camtasia
APRIL 19, 2013
The time and energy it takes to record, edit and publish high-quality videos is often much longer than the end product. Then we make a storyboard to plan how we want the video to look and feel. A part of John's storyboard and script for his video (which is linked to at the end of this article). Keep your eyes open.
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The Difference Between Instructional designer and eLearning developer
Paradiso Solutions
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Storyboarding and Prototyping Creates detailed storyboards specifying content and interactions. Builds prototypes based on the storyboards, incorporating multimedia and interactive elements. Final Review and Deployment Ensures the course meets instructional design standards during final testing and quality assurance.
Crash Course For Constructive Feedback
Association eLearning
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Or maybe it was storyboard revisions for eLearning. Feedback’s quality can be improved by following best practices. If you’d like to read more about instructional design best practices, check out the rest of this author’s blogs. Think back to the last time you got feedback on something. What did it say? disagreements.
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Elearning applications
eFront
JANUARY 5, 2011
It enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students. Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! You can create a quiz app to assess your employees knowledge. BigBlueButton - (Web Conferencing) BigBlueButton is built for Higher Education. The project is hosted at Google Code.
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111 7 Proven Techniques for Keeping Your E-Learning Customers Happy - The Rapid eLearning Blog
Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 1, 2008
The Rapid Elearning Blog. If you’re committed to a quality product and helping people, you’ll get through your work (and life) with much more joy and purpose. But they may have doubts about the abilities of the training team if they feel that they are not reviewing professional quality training materials. kowtowâ???
10 Best eLearning Authoring Tools
ProProfs
JANUARY 6, 2022
Storyboard. For example, the tool you choose should support the repurposing of PowerPoint presentations to create a mini-course or turn blog content into video content. This is because, at the end of the day, the quality of customer support determines whether you want to stay on or cut ties with a provider. Customization.
Unlocked: The OpenSesame Blog's Greatest Hits of 2014
OpenSesame
DECEMBER 8, 2014
We’ve grown our blog significantly in 2014, with this being the first full year of our commitment to posting five times per week! Each week, I send out a weekly blog summary to our team to make sure everyone here at OpenSesame keeps up with what we’re doing in the world of blogging and marketing. By: Sharlyn Lauby. .
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
My live blogged notes from DevLearn in Las Vegas, November 3 2011. Agile: Value/Quality/Constraints (scope, cost, schedule) Traditional vs. agile: trad = it’s all about the plan and you need to enforce the plan agile = iterations, control is through adaption/inspection, use agile proactively to manage change Why agile?
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ELC 065: Pro Tips For Working With Subject Matter Experts
The eLearning Coach
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Diane is the co-author of the popular E-Learning Uncovered book series and is a regular contributor to the ATD Learning Technologies Blog. Recommendations for the qualities of a good SME to work with. * Difference between presentation reviews and storyboard reviews. * WE DISCUSS: * Role of the SME in instructional design.
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RFP Process for eLearning Solutions and Services
Paradiso
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Here are the seven essential guidelines for crafting an effective RFP eLearning that will assist you in identifying the ideal online training partner who can provide high-quality courseware on schedule and within your budget. Storyboarding & Content Research for Instructional Design. Request A Demo. time for course development.
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PowerPoint 2007: Adding Voiceover Narration to Presentations Converted to Movies
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JANUARY 4, 2011
If necessary, drag the.wmv file(s) down to the storyboard. From just above the storyboard at the bottom of the screen, click Show Timeline. However, if you are looking for better sound quality it is usually better to use an external microphone. Open the.wmv file in Windows Movie Maker.
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eFront
OCTOBER 31, 2010
It enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students. Take advantage of the opportunity to share any screen content or application over the Internet in true color quality with up to 10 participants simultaneously, while still sitting at your desk. Have you found Amplify yet?
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111 Using Heuristic Evaluation to Craft the Perfect Learner Journey
Origin Learning
JANUARY 12, 2018
One can have the best-written storyboards with the impressive videos and engaging assessments but if you do not focus on user/learner experience; then the purpose of your eLearning solution is defeated. This article will demonstrate how these principles can be applied in the design of effective eLearning solutions.
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200 The Importance of Being an Instructional Designer
Origin Learning
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
In this blog post, we examine how the role of Instructional Designers has evolved and the qualities that are needed to succeed as an instructional designer in a highly competitive industry. The ability to translate thoughts and ideas into words is the key quality that Instructional Designers need. The Storyboard Remains Sacred.
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