Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional designers and training managers sometimes ask me, “How do I train SMEs to write better branching scenarios?” Instead, I think we as instructional designers and LXDs should interview the SMEs as part of our analysis, and then we should write it. They aren’t experts in learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 7, 2023

I have several speaking engagements already booked for 2023. Together, we’ll review several poorly written scenario examples, and then you’ll practice revising them to create more engaging scenarios. A few additional events are in the planning stages right now. You’ll practice drafting conversational dialogue between two characters.

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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. Time cave template structure For example, I recently reviewed the branching scenario options in a tool that provides a template with the structure shown below.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Last week I gave a webinar through UCI on transitioning from teaching to instructional design. I shared my story of moving from teaching to instructional design as well as tips for finding a job. Instructional Design Competencies. ibstpi Instructional Design Competencies. Portfolios.

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LearningGuild

APRIL 21, 2020

Book Review: Instructional Story Design. bill-brandon. Tue, 04/21/2020 - 01:00.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Last week I gave a webinar through UCI on transitioning from teaching to instructional design. I shared my story of moving from teaching to instructional design as well as tips for finding a job. Instructional Design Competencies. ATD Competency Model ibstpi Instructional Design Competencies.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 3, 2013

I have read the book from Michael Allen ( and Richard Sites) with a lot of interest and it is a book that I can recommend to read, it does explain the why and the how of the approach and it contains a lot of practical stuff like examples and check list that will help you get started. The book starts with why we need a new approach.

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Making Change

MARCH 27, 2018

Let’s start with the big picture: The design process. It’s far easier to adjust a few notes than it is to throw out a story you spent hours writing. For a branching scenario, sketch and test the plot before writing the story. Here are the details, mostly copied from my book Map It. Prototype first!

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. Her test preparation books are some of the best selling on the topic. Kathy has brought the perspective that gamification is not good–at all.

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Learningtogo

MAY 25, 2023

As the talent development profession grapples with the emergence of intelligent agents, years ahead of their predicted arrival, it might feel as though you’re trying to accomplish this paradoxical feat as an instructional designer, trainer, leader, or coach. What can you do now? Start your journey with 30-minute discovery session.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 2, 2012

It then dissects the elements of games and describes how they can be applied to the design and development of interactive learning. The presentation is based on solid research including peer-reviewed results from dozens of studies that offer insights into why game-based thinking and mechanics makes for vigorous learning tools.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Cammy has just written her first book called The Accidental Instructional Designer which has gotten great reviews on Amazon and from among the learning community. Kapp: First, what is an “accidental instructional designer”? Of course, computers barely existed in my childhood, but I date myself….

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 14, 2013

What was the last book. Rather, a simple yet compelling story. These stories can also create a challenge. Create a story with good guys and bad guys. I recently reviewed training a colleague created on a security-related topic. The training opened with a short story about a thief. By Shelley A.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 6, 2017

“Stories don’t work for all kinds of training.” ” One of the common objections I hear to using storytelling in training is that “stories don’t work for all kinds of training.” However, I think stories can have a place in some (maybe even most ) software training. Examples as Stories.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Karl Kapp’s book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Most of us at BLP have this book on our desks, so the content was not unfamiliar to us. Karl’s book includes an entire chapter reviewing meta-analysis studies on games. Organizations are starting to invest major $$ into games.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 23, 2013

And then presenting on Five Things that Instructional Designers can Learn from Game Designers. Five Things Game Designers Can Teach eLearning Designers from Karl Kapp. Here are the five elements of thinking like a game designer. Here is link to story of research in India. Pashler (Ed.),Encyclopedia

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 27, 2010

Atkinson draws greatly from Richard Mayer’s research and writings on principles for multimedia design (see Richard E. The book provides a balance of theory and practical how-to advice, answering the question “why do I need to do this?” Have you read this book? and then “how do I do this.” Did you put any of this into practice?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Effective design using PPT as a tool. But will talk about how to make instruction more engaging, interactive and interesting. Creating asynchronous instruction. Info dumps are not instruction! Not PPT 101.

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What are some guidelines for including music in your instructional design? Over the past two years, almost 100,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published with the keywords “music and learning.” Book Your 1-on-1 Session With Margie. Margie's Story. Margie's Story. . But how, exactly, does it work?

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 29, 2013

He is the author of the book ‘Leading without commanding’, it was originally published under the title ‘The input- output manager’. As I will describe later in more detail, the customer demands are captured in ‘ user stories’ that are prioritized. The product owner is the person that can officially accept a user story.

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dVinci Interactive

AUGUST 12, 2014

Did you read Choose Your Own Adventure books when you were young? I loved these books as a child. They gave me control over what was to come, and if I didn’t care for how the story played out I could start over or backtrack to explore different options. The author put the decision points in your hands. No red herrings!

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Ask for Their Stories. SMEs almost always have a collection of good stories about their topic. The trick is figuring out how to get those stories out of their heads and into a format you can use in a course. The success story can become the outline for the correct path in your branching scenario.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Five Things Game Designers Can Teach eLearning Designers from Karl Kapp. Here are the five elements of thinking like a game designer. Give Learners Choices Also related is to Create Multiple Levels of Entry into Your Instruction. Here is link to story of research in India. Create Curiosity, Mystery, Intrigue.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

One of the common objections I hear to using storytelling in training is that “stories don’t work for all kinds of training.” ” Those who are skeptical of storytelling often use software training as an example where stories don’t work. When to avoid stories and focus on features.

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Spark Your Interest

JULY 13, 2021

Here we give you 19 expert instructional design tips so that you can benefit and create a great Thinkific course. But unless you’re an expert in instructional online design you’re unlikely to know all the tricks of the trade. we’ve come up with 19 instructional design tips and techniques for you to use in Thinkfic.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

If you are thinking about being more adventurous in your teaching, think about gamifying some of your instruction. ” It will help you think through the gamification process and to create meaningful gamified instruction. Using Poll Everywhere to Create an Interactive Story-based Presentation from Karl Kapp. White, R.W.

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Making Change

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

My new book, Map It , is now available in print and Kindle from Amazon sites around the world. The book walks you through action mapping in way more depth than I’ve been able to use in this blog. — Norman Lamont’s review. Expectations for a book are different. Interested in publishing your own book?

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 7, 2013

In preceding posts on learning game design, I’ve focused on game goals, game mechanics, and a variety of game elements. Karl Kapp’s book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction , has an excellent chapter on rewards/achievements and how to use them effectively. Let’s look at rewards first. Some games have them.

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Spark Your Interest

MARCH 7, 2021

That’s why there are so many LMS horror stories. All from an instructional designers’ perspective. LMS Horror Stories. Stories abound from organizations that have had horrible experiences with their LMS. One way is to hire an instructional designer experienced with LMS’s. It doesn’t work that way.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I did buy his book Limitless – because who doesn’t want fewer limits in life? xAPI = a way to manage and store large amounts of data Analytics = what you DO with that data Book to check out: Measurement Demystified (David Vance and Peggy Parskey) 2021 Why do we measure learning development? He had us moving and grooving, for sure.

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LearnDash

MARCH 26, 2020

Make their test open-book. Asking learners to give examples from their lives in answer to a question not only personalizes the project but helps instructors spot when the stories don’t match the student. That means you can focus more of your energy on delivering the best instruction possible, and worry less about cheating.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. At least from the instructional designers and the businesss point of view. 161) Break the Rules Allen urges instructional designers to break the rules: "Dont list objectives." Do you have any good stories?

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As a result, they learned to design more understandable and lively content, and collaboratively generated, exchanged, and elaborated ideas for new creative instructional strategies for their students. While wikis were designed to deliver curated information, the process requires social interaction among users. Margie's Story.

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Association eLearning

JULY 2, 2014

If anyone has questions about the review process feel free to e-mail me.” Here’s the text book for the existing course, everything you need is in there. I’m travelling all of next week, so I probably won’t be able to meet or review anything until after I get back.”. Working with the Project Manager. Working with a SME.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

The book is a synthesis of years of collective experience, know-how, knowledge and deep passion for improving and enabling human performance. As an L&D professional, for me the book is a practical guide to the implementation of a more efficacious "workscape" and even tells me what my elevator pitch should be.

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SweetRush

MARCH 17, 2023

But, just as the cost of building a small addition versus an entire home varies, so too does the cost (and time it takes) to design and build a custom eLearning solution. We likened creating a custom eLearning solution to designing and building a house. At SweetRush, we have a saying: Dream it and we can build it.

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Learning with e's

JULY 15, 2022

An old friend and acquaintance of mine from my years in academia recently published a new book. The book is Story Machines, by Mike Sharples. It's one that fascinates me because it combines two of the key interests in my life - technology and story telling. Computers follow instructions known as code.

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