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The Best eLearning Authoring Tools, Platforms & Software

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In order to generate training materials for their staff, instructional designers most frequently use authoring tools for eLearning; which includes compliance, soft skills and hard, onboarding, etc. Very simple to use; no coding or design experience is necessary. What are eLearning Authoring Tools?

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Value of Instructional Designers

Kapp Notes

Lately there has been some talk about what exactly instructional designers do and what value they add to the process. So it is the design of the instruction that matters more than how the instruction is delivered (a lesson that needs to be learned by many Instructional Technologists).

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How to handle the handoff conversation

Making Change

Do you work in a course factory? Here's a quick slideshow with ideas for things you could say -- and not say. Training needs analysis: How to handle the handoff from Cathy Moore. For more, see: Burn your training request form. Do you care? How to kick off a project and avoid an information dump. Save your clients from themselves.

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eLearning in the Age of Automation

Web Courseworks

This figure does not refer solely to professions such as factory work or truck driving; office workers and sales people are just as likely to see their jobs automated. As instructional designers, it’ll be up to us to design effective curricula that will help our learners gain the skills they need to succeed in their new jobs.

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Burn your training request form

Making Change

” It turns you into a worker in a course factory. Specify the date and location for “the training” Identify the number of people to be “trained” With this form, you’re saying, “My job is to produce whatever training you want, whether or not it will actually work.”

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How to kick off a project and avoid an info dump

Making Change

Do you feel like you’re an assembly line worker in a course factory, expected to crank out training on demand? Break free of the assembly line with a strong kickoff meeting that puts you in charge of the design. Get your free 23-page ebook: Training Designer''s Guide to Saving the World. Learn more about the workshop.

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Philadelphia ASTD Meeting Lot of Fun

Kapp Notes

Lia presented a fascinating example of how her organization build a virtual factory using an interface with an ERP software program to mimic the supply and demand elements of a factory. She indicated that the group she worked with ran the factory and discovered performance improvement innovations that they had overlooked for years.

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