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. In-person conferences are another venue; I present at a few conferences each year.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 4, 2023

Dialogue can be tricky to write. When I teach people how to write branching scenarios, writing dialogue is one of the places people get stuck. If you’re used to writing in a more formal style, writing dialogue can feel very unfamiliar. In fact, use more contractions than you think you need to.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Read our gamification announcement for more details about how these features work, and check out our gamification blog roundup for more thoughts about how and why to apply it to your course. Together, these various question types cover three of the four main parts of language learning: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Are they learning for professional development or personal enjoyment? 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. What do you hate teaching?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 9, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes benchmarks for speaker fees, some interesting AI tools, a source for L&D mentors, career tips, and resources for improving writing skills. The person who shared it said she got 80 images for $30…but only about 10 of them were usable.

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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

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. Plus, how useful are talking head videos even when it’s a real person, let alone an AI talking head?

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LearnDash

MAY 5, 2020

Here’s how you can teach them in your course. From the earliest days of the Internet, online learners and educators have looked for ways to use it as a resource for teaching and learning languages. However, despite the interest, teaching language is as difficult as learning it.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2014

To be able to write these, it is first important to understand the difference between aims and objectives. Let’s say you want to teach your employees on how to use the internet. In such a course, the personal aim of each employee will be: ‘To successfully learn and use internet and internet-enabled applications’. First name.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

Last month, a reader named Jackie asked me a number of thoughtful questions about transitioning from teaching K-12 public school to instructional design. I have altered a few details to make this more applicable to a general audience, although some questions and answers specifically mention the transition from teaching to ID.

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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.” And since you’re teaching an online course , it should be a given that your learners will be searching for resources online. Imagine trying to write a guide for citing online sources in 1997, the year before Google was founded?

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They’re also a way to teach your learners wherever they happen to be. 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. Take this as a teaching opportunity.

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Making Change

JULY 21, 2013

If you’re a blog subscriber and reading this in your email or RSS reader, you should see a link to the ebook at the bottom of this post.). The cartoon is a trailer more than a “teaching” tool, since it just touches on the main points. humor in teaching can increase retention, motivation, and comprehension.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Whether you’re exploring innovative online teaching methods, embracing new ways to learn, or simply curious about eLearning and educational technology, this resource will help you understand the language that shapes digital learning. Examples include technical knowledge, writing abilities or project management. A Accessibility.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 10, 2014

However, the premise was that there was someone doing the "teaching" so to speak. This ties back to the concepts of micro-learning and learning flows discussed in the blog posts here and here. Pedagogy had always established an unequal relation between the teacher and the taught. IMHO, a heutagogical approach is essential today.

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CourseArc

APRIL 14, 2020

Preparing and sharing resources can help them feel supported even though you aren’t there to help in person. 6-12: The NY Times Picture Prompts – Image driven prompts to inspire writing. Check back to our blog and social media feeds for the final step in this series: Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 1, 2019

For instance, if you’re asking your learners to write a weekly blog post about what they’ve learned in your course, you may have a good reason for asking their course mates to each leave a comment—but you don’t then need to require them to respond to other comments on the post. Do not tolerate abusive feedback.

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LearnDash

APRIL 6, 2021

They also allow you to connect more personally with your audience. You’ve probably heard of content marketing , but if you haven’t, it’s a way of building customer trust and loyalty through high-value content such as blogs, podcasts, a video series, or downloadable PDFs. Focused webinars.

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Fly Plugins

JULY 8, 2024

By leveraging AI, educators and institutions can design more personalized, engaging, and effective educational experiences. This personalization ensures that each learner engages with material that is most conducive to their own learning style and pace.

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CourseArc

APRIL 14, 2020

Preparing and sharing resources can help them feel supported even though you aren’t there to help in person. 6-12: The NY Times Picture Prompts – Image driven prompts to inspire writing. Missed the other steps or need a refresher in the Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online series ?

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Infopro Learning

JANUARY 6, 2025

This blog will discuss strategies for building effective training for various learning styles. 3) Verbal: Verbal learners’ favorite learning styles are reading and writing. They excel at self-paced lessons and personal goal-setting activities. Record your teaching sessions or upload your lessons to online programs.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

No matter how brilliant your ideas are, transmitting those ideas from one person to another is incredibly difficult. When writing a course outline, it can be easy to become bogged down by details. For instance, let’s say you want to teach a course on cake decorating. Or create creative birthday cake designs?

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Paradiso

JANUARY 29, 2025

Personalized Learning Experience In a collaborative setup, learners can ask questions, clarify doubts, and receive immediate feedback from peers and instructors. This creates a personalized and supportive learning journey. Peer Teaching Learners take turns teaching their peers about specific topics.

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Unboxed

APRIL 13, 2020

Job Skills Training for Persons with Disabilities. ” or start mastering how to teach soft skills, it helps to know which soft skills to focus on. Personal Productivity. From emailing to pitching to proposal writing, attention to detail is everything. Tips for Teaching Soft Skills. Follow Follow Follow.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Leverage your email list As a content creator, you most likely have a personal brand with email subscribers already. For example, if you create content about personal finance, your advanced audience most likely won’t be as interested in your new beginner course. Be personal and address your subscribers. Create a channel trailer.

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Fly Plugins

APRIL 2, 2024

However, since your online course is very likely a direct extension of your personality, experiences, communication style, and knowledge, nothing could ring more true! It can teach you to not only get paid to do what you love, but to make a living! It also makes a bold claim about exactly what a Fizzle membership can do for you.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There are many good reasons why a person may put off launching their online course, but there are just as many obstacles that can be removed with a little planning and research. For those who want to try their hand at online teaching but haven’t settled on a subject, starting at all seems like putting the cart before the horse.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The other day I had a chance to catch up with Cammy Bean, she is passionate about the field of L&D and is founder of the popular Learning Visions blog and a staple among presenters at various elearning and learning conferences. What where the high and low points of the process? But be warned!

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Association eLearning

JULY 19, 2017

Jackie Chan’s character has been trying to teach a student kung fu. Let your star sales person fail a simulation if they haven’t bothered to read up on the latest product updates. As they say in the writing world, “show, don’t tell.”. The whole situation reminds me of a scene from The Forbidden Kingdom.

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learnWorlds

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wondering how you can teach online and earn money doing so? This guide will show you how to successfully start an online teaching business and teach classes from home in 8 simple steps. 1 What is Online Teaching? 3 Is Online Teaching Really Profitable? 3 Is Online Teaching Really Profitable?

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 5, 2019

However you choose to use micro content in your course, exploring it as a teaching tool comes with several benefits. A large course may take months to write, structure, and deliver, while a micro course could be turned around in a week. Are you worried that a certain teaching technique won’t work?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 10, 2017

The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. I found what Bob said to be so compelling that I asked him to write it up. I’m one of the creators, along with the research staff of the Center for Creative Leadership, of the 70-20-10 meme [the dictionary defines a meme as an “idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person”].

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LearnDash

APRIL 14, 2020

Flexible learning describes a learner-focused learning environment that caters to different learning styles and preferred teaching environments. It’s important that when you’re allowing learners to set their own deadlines, that they submit these deadlines to you, in writing. What is Flexible Learning?

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Association eLearning

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Writing “Do not touch” on something is a great way to get people to explore it. The parts that surprised me the most were getting clues by singing Happy Birthday, having the whole group stand in a box labelled “CROWD” in order to have one person “stand out from the crowd,” and doing the Time Warp dance.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 22, 2014

I had read a few blog posts by Dave Cormier (the godfather of the philosophy) and I follow the intrepid Soozie Bea (a card-carrying disciple), but unfortunately I missed Dave’s #rhizo14 mooc earlier in the year. Since I’ve been blogging about the semantics of education lately, I thought it high time to dig a little deeper.

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TechSmith Camtasia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re an educator exhausted with teaching online, you’re not alone. Pivoting your skills from in-person to a virtual environment comes with its challenges in any industry. However, there are many tools that can help educators with confidently teaching online. It’s very important to be crystal clear when teaching online.

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Fly Plugins

JUNE 4, 2024

2 Use it for your site’s blog A little over a year ago, I started using an automated online video transcription service called Rev. 3 Offer it up for guest posting Now, using Rev to create blog posts from your online course videos is a great strategy. I love to write, but most website owners loathe keeping up a blog.

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