Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Broadly, there are two different ways to move from another field into an instructional design career: the direct path and the indirect path. This is post #2 in a series about the instructional design. Read the first post, What does an instructional designer do? , for the introduction.

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IT Training Department Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The innovation behind L&D using AI, particularly in voiceover narration, seems promising at first glance, offering seamless consistency and scalability. Using AI in eLearning narration may result in a homogenized experience where every module sounds similar. That’s unfortunate. That’s about it.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 9, 2024

This month marks 20 years since I started at my first instructional design job. It feels like a good time to pause and reflect on that first ID role, how my journey started, and how that shaped my experiences now. I’ll also share a few slides from the first branching scenario I wrote.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 21, 2020

Instructional design jobs were often done remotely before the pandemic. Now that most of us are staying home, even more opportunities for remote instructional design and elearning work are available. My experience. Prior to that, I had jobs that allowed at least partial remote work.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

This is your chance! This is an experiment. I’ve never done a livestream like this before, and there might be some hiccups. First, you’ll practice creating relatable characters that share job roles and other qualities with your learners. A few additional events are in the planning stages right now.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

Everyone working in instructional design, learning experience design, or elearning should have a portfolio. This is especially true for people who are job seeking or working independently. This post on building an instructional design portfolio includes what to include and additional tips.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Right now, it’s impossible to truly know how AI will affect instructional design in the future. I’ve definitely heard from folks that are scared the whole field of instructional design could disappear and we’ll all be replaced by AI. It’s worth finding the ways that AI can make your job easier.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2023

Your portfolio is a way to tell your story about the work you do and the work you want to do in the future. You don’t need to have lots of full courses on your portfolio. Include a few sentences explaining your projects and the problems you solved with them. You can also use grids and blocks for your portfolio.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 28, 2024

This post includes links related to AI, accessibility, storytelling, troubleshooting Storyline, PowerPoint design tips, freelancing, animation, and translation. After experimenting with Midjourney and being pleased with the preliminary results, I want to try this next. Instead of basing it on a generated image, this uses face swapping.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 4, 2014

I had to finish up a few projects before my maternity leave could really start. In the first week, five separate nurses or doctors at Duke asked me if I had a medical background. As an instructional designer, it’s my job to be able to work with experts in lots of different subjects.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 13, 2021

L&D professionals are no longer developing mobile-ready learning programs but taking a mobile-first approach to training delivery. Mobile training course design and delivery can help your organization provide quality learning experiences to employees no matter their location. The average workplace has changed.

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IT Training Department Blog

JULY 10, 2023

No, really, go back and cut even more out until you’re left with only the necessary information for employees to do their job, do it better, or fix what they’re doing wrong. Instead of overwhelming our goal is to help people do their job better. That’s what dealing with content overload helps you do.

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Infopro Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One of the best strategies your organization can use that is often overlooked is working with a performance consultant. There are three highly effective ways a consultant can help your organization improve employee performance. A performance consultant can help your business develop a new effective strategy.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

What are the prominent professional organizations for instructional designers? What are some differences in instructional design jobs? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. I found one of my early instructional design jobs through their job board.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 29, 2018

Another argument is that while people do need to learn, they can do it all on the job with performance support and coaching. In that same conversation, Mirjam Neelen explained, “For me, a course means nothing but ‘a formally designed learning experience’ and can include many different instructional AND learning methods.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

That’s the best situation, but it takes time to build up enough data to create your own personal benchmarks. Analysis, Design, and Storyboarding. Instructional design is 13% or about 72 hours. I use a time tracking template that lets me analyze my time on different tasks and projects. Applying the Benchmarks.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Customer service has become the leading factor consumers consider before making a purchase. Improving customer satisfaction rates by even a small fraction can give your organization a competitive edge. A refresher course was designed and developed to improve performance and to increase the lenders knowledge of these key focus areas.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 14, 2020

The protagonist should be someone your learners identify with. In workplace learning, that means the character has the same or a similar job as the learners. Learners should see a bit of themselves in the characters in your scenarios. When learners identify with your protagonist, they care about what happens to the character.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 2, 2023

CAMMY BEAN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS ABOUT CAMMY BEAN: Cammy Bean accidentally became an instructional designer in 1996 and has since collaborated with hundreds of organizations to design and deliver training programs. In 2009, she helped start up US operations for Kineo , a global provider of learning solutions.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Welcome to the A-Z of Digital Learning, your comprehensive glossary of learning and eLearning terminology. An instructional design framework used to design effective learning. ADDIE follows the stages of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. An instructional design model for motivation.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2/5/20: ID Certificates and Master’s Degrees 2/20/20: Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-Based Learning that Engages Participants 3/31/20: Streamlining Branching Scenario Planning and Design Early April (Dates TBA): Freelancing Lessons Learned. Using scenarios can make your elearning more engaging and relevant.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2025

Training That Fails to Keep Pace with Product Lifecycles IT and telecom companies are introducing new goods and services at a never-before-seen pace. Despite this, these external partners often receive only minimal product training, leading to inconsistent customer experiences.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Instructional designers sometimes run into pitfalls when writing voice over scripts. Watch for these common pitfalls in your scripts: Numbers. In the final post of the series, I’ll provide a QA checklist of all the tips to help you with your reviews. Be careful with phone numbers in your scripts.

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Spark Your Interest

JULY 13, 2021

Making it easy to manage your course and sell it for a profit. Here we give you 19 expert instructional design tips so that you can benefit and create a great Thinkific course. Access Your Free Tutorials. Whether your goal is to educate your customers or to sell courses. So it appears part of your website.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

Sarah Prevette: Design Thinking in Learning and Work. Sarah Prevette was great when she was talking about things she knows, like design thinking, entrepreneurship, and brainstorming. Connie Malamed: Visual Design Challenges and Solutions. Panel: Where is Instructional Design Heading? How will you use it?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

I enjoyed seeing so many old friends, meeting people in person for the first time, and making new connections. Kortney Ross and I in front of the LHRCon sign Morning Buzz: Designing and Developing Scenarios I led a Morning Buzz session on the first day about scenarios. Give people a choice (without providing too many options).

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Tim Slade

JUNE 8, 2019

Should it be a how-to video or job aid? Why don’t we try designing blended learning? Learning is a process of experiences that occur over a period of time. In this post, I’d like to share three practical tips you can use when designing blended learning. What will you deliver before the primary learning event?

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Infopro Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from InfoPro Learning: We are excited to have recently entered a partnership with WalkMe TM and love to share our experience with them; our designers love the tool, and so do our customers! All this was my world before I started on my current assignment using Walkme TM. First, What Is WalkMe? Helps Reduce Rework.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

ABOUT DR. STELLA LEE: Dr. Stella Lee brings over 20 years of international experience in e-learning, blended, and distance learning strategy, design, development, project management, and implementation. She has conducted post-doctoral research on learning analytics with iCore Research Lab at Athabasca University.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The candidate’s experience, follow-up, and communication may suffer if your talent acquisition strategy is outdated. To avoid this scenario, you need to change your approach to talent acquisition and keep up with the changing times. Why Revamp Your Talent Acquisition Strategy?

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Set goals : ECT can help organizations set realistic goals, create a roadmap for employees, and clearly instruct them about their roles and responsibilities. Personalizing learning experience: LMS platforms like GyrusAim LMS allow organizations to personalize employees’ learning paths based on their skills, experience, and roles.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 27, 2023

We are witnessing significant disruptions throughout most organizations, including the overall workplace dynamics, the composition of the workforce, and how the job tasks are performed. Each element is crucial in crafting an experience that aligns with the workforce’s brand. What Are Some Instructional Design Models?

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LearnDash

JUNE 30, 2020

Mobile training provides flexibility, especially for learners who don’t have desk jobs. It allows employees to consume training materials on their break, during downtime, or while waiting for their next job. Microtraining describes short content that learners can experience or review a little bit at a time.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It was fully online, called the “DevLearn Digital Experience” (DDX). Even online, it was a great experience. That tells us that we both need to provide relevant content, and we need to help set expectations before people even start the video. Agile Methods for Instructional Design Projects by Megan Torrance.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Whether you’re new to instructional design, or wondering why your courses aren’t grabbing learners the way you hoped they would, these are six elements that learners need in their courses to stay engaged. And sometimes they come because it’s a requirement of their job. Trust me, I’ve been there.).

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LearnDash

APRIL 1, 2021

How to define your objectives before creating an online learning program. However, most courses take a lot of time to prepare, and you should know what you’re getting into before you start. Here are a few questions to help you think through your course idea so that you can start off on the right foot. ”).

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Infopro Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

In other words, this recruitment system allows you to quickly match resources to your current requirements without having to keep bloated teams on your payroll. Here are some ways it could benefit your organization. TaaS takes the phrase ‘the right person for the right job’ to a new level.

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