Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I have written over 1100 blog posts since I started this blog in 2006. This was the top post on my blog for many years, and still ranks highest of my instructional design careers series. The free open source tool Twine makes planning, writing, and creating branching scenarios easier. Top 5 Evergreen Posts.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts. Blogging to Build Your Business.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2024

When I talk to people about starting a blog, newsletter, LinkedIn posts, or other content marketing, they often confess that they’re worried they don’t have anything to write about. They ask how I come up with ideas, especially when I’ve been blogging so long. My ideas for posts come from several sources.

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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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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. Plus, it’s free and open source, with an active developer community working to extend its functionality and user communities for support. New clients find me through my blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Much of my work as an instructional designer involves writing–and we have a lot of research to guide us on how to write to support learning. Essentially, any time you do instructional writing (scripts, online text, instructions, etc.), Every single time I write a voice over script, I aim for that conversational tone.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 9, 2024

These are my top blog posts from 2023 plus a review of a few other accomplishments and my goals for 2024. Top new blog posts of 2023 I would never have guessed that a post on learning objectives would be my top post for the year, but this turned out to be a surprisingly controversial topic. Read more about using AI to write scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 4, 2023

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is a more comprehensive list, compiled into a single post. Within this post, I have mostly linked to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 19, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. I’m experimenting with AI image tools to create images for my blog posts. Storytelling Tip 6: Show, Don’t Tell Hadiya Nuriddin continues her series of tips on writing stories with “show, don’t tell.” Free registration is open now.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell. ” When they select the Play button on that layer, it opens the “Autoplay” layer. This doesn’t affect your price and helps to offset the cost of maintaining this blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 25, 2023

How can you use AI to write scenarios for learning? So far, I have found these tools helpful in generating ideas, writing first drafts, and summarizing. This post isn’t going to give you “5 magical prompts to instantly write scenarios for you” or anything like that. I’m using the free ChatGPT 3.5

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a previous blog post, I explained how to start writing branching scenarios with AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. Coming up with alternate paths and plausible wrong answers is always one of the most challenging tasks in writing branching scenarios. Ideal path In my last blog post, I used ChatGPT to draft two decision points.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Enrollment is now open for Build Your Branching Scenario , with the next cohort starting Tuesday, September 13. Build Your Branching Scenario isn’t a course just about the theory behind writing scenarios. For an example of the process, check out my blog post series on creating a branching scenario from start to finish.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. These are under an MIT open source license. Writing them isn’t necessarily as easy as generating typical recognition questions, but they more closely mimic the actual task, and therefore lead to better transfer. Clark Quinn. Clark Quinn.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s a topic we haven’t touched on much in this blog: your course website. Build your SEO with a blog or other long-form content. However, unless your course is an open course (meaning anyone can access it), your actual content will be behind a gate. This is where a blog comes in. You’re building your course website.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. AI is welcomed by those with dyslexia, and other learning issues, helping to mitigate some of the challenges associated with reading, writing, and processing information. Enrollment is open now for the fall session starting October 14. Tuesday, October 22, 3:00 PM ET.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. We give juniors clear goals and concrete plans, instead of vague open-ended directions, and we should do the same for our agents too. This also includes JavaScript code to integrate ChatGPT into Storyline for more open-ended scenarios. Hallucinations are a stubborn problem.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 25, 2020

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Open Broadcaster Software Open source tool for live mixing video streaming. General Principles for Reducing Bias APA Style guide principles for reducing bias in writing. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. Video conference tips and tools.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Membership packages are a popular choice for educators because they open up the possibility of regular subscribers who will not only stick around on the promise of future content, but who will become active contributors to your community. Promote your course on your blog and social media. And if you’re writing a blog (ha!)

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As an example, if you were teaching a course on organic gardening, you might write your course to appeal to a student who lives in the suburbs or a rural area with space for a garden and with a spouse and children living at home. Write down three things that you would love to teach others. Show others how to write poetry.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Tech with scenarios ChatGPT integration with Storyline for eLearning -Infinite Scenarios – YouTube Garima Gupta shows an example of a scenario with an open-ended question rather than multiple choice. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2024

If the simulation isn’t embedded below, try opening it in a new tab. I’ll write more about that process of creating images in a future blog post. Free registration is open now. Try the project management simulation Try the simulation yourself now. What do you think? Tuesday, March 26, 11:00 AM EDT.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is the poster child for this development: at the time of writing, Open AI has been around for less than 2 years but has changed the competitive landscape for organizational performance. The post Deep Dive: New Tech Skills first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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Thinkdom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Google Workpace : Cloud-based platform that allows for collaborative writing and designing of documents and presentations. Jasper : An AI-powered writing assistant designed with in-built templates that generates content based on specific needs. These tools make it easy to work with teams and organize complex ideas.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We need to do aanalysis, writing, working with SMEs, visual design, etc. Tech writing and software training While I don’t think ID is going to go away, I think jobs designing software training will be affected. Sometimes it would take more time to edit and improve AI-generated content than to just write it yourself.

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Thinkdom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Google Workpace : Cloud-based platform that allows for collaborative writing and designing of documents and presentations. Jasper : An AI-powered writing assistant designed with in-built templates that generates content based on specific needs. These tools make it easy to work with teams and organize complex ideas.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

If there are multiple hits and not a definitive one, I’ll scan the sources as well as the title, and likely open several. I have a number of blogs I’m subscribed to. It may lead me to diagramming , or writing up something, frequently both (as here ). Writing is about creating a narrative around it.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My blog posts are written manually by me unless I post something like this; everything above is my own writing. Castmagic will generate a transcript, closed captions, aaaaaand… uses AI to transform your transcript into other forms of content (Blog post, YouTube description, MC questions, etc.)

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2020

When I first started writing essays for school, the rule we were given was “no online sources allowed.” Imagine trying to write a guide for citing online sources in 1997, the year before Google was founded? Or in 2005, before Facebook became open to the public? Later, we were told “you can use online sources, but not Wikipedia.”

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2014

New technologies have opened up new frontiers for mobile based gaming. Write down in the comments below. Then Subscribe to this Blog ! Gamification allows learners to ‘learn’ these professionally important behaviors. These are the 5 reasons we think gamification should find its way into your online and mobile training strategy.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

AUGUST 26, 2024

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. Side note: my husband is grilling burgers as I write this. At the end of this post, I’ve included five additional tools I learn from.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

Are there jobs I should lean toward to which are more open than others? When I work with faculty in higher ed, most of the time they are pretty open to creative approaches. I work with a lot of faculty who have no experience with online learning, so they generally are open to my expertise as far as how to use the technology creatively.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Create blog content for ongoing learning. We come back to blogging a lot , but it really is one of your best tools both for marketing your course and as an ongoing teaching opportunity. Running a regular blog with thoughtful, relevant, well-researched content is necessarily a learning experience.

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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. It would be an interesting experiment to convert that from Captivate to a chatbot so learners had to type open responses. Sessions Day 3.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 18, 2020

Writing is arguably the top way I reflect. That’s where I write books and articles first. And, of course WordPress is how I write my blog (e.g. Writing is a way to sort out how I think about things. As I say, things that end up in presentations and books tend to show up on blog first.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 29, 2019

Are you looking for a way to market your online course business but don’t want to write article after article? Building a relationship can be tricky, so maximize the likelihood that they’ll open your email and agree to partner with you. Read and comment on their blogs using an authentic voice and tone.

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