Bill Brandon
Editor, Learning Solutions, The Learning Guild
Bill Brandon is the editor of Learning Solutions. He has designed, managed, and delivered instruction since 1968, and has been an e-Learning practitioner since 1984. Before becoming the editor in 2002, Bill held instructor and management positions in the United States Navy, Texas Utilities, Atmos Energy, TGI Friday’s, and The Sales Consultancy. The co-author of eight books and the author of dozens of articles on technical topics, he has also developed programs for major conferences and owned a consulting business. He is a past president of the Texas Chapter (now the Dallas Chapter) of ISPI, and for 10 years led the Learning Technology SIG of the Dallas Chapter of ASTD. Bill is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and now lives near Dallas, Texas.
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New Content from The eLearning Guild: Online Events and DemoFest
These links to recent content in the Guild archives were hand-picked for you by the Guild staff. We hope you find them useful!
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In Memoriam: Jay Cross
Jay Cross, called by many “the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning,” passed away on November 6, 2015.
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Four Resources from DevLearn 2015, DemoFest, and Adobe Learning Summit 2015
These resources include mLearning hacks, strategies for designing virtual classroom events that ensure learning occurs, presentations of the winning DemoFest entries in 2015, and an eBook of tips from the DevLearn thought leaders. Enjoy!
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Five Awesome Resources for eLearning Designers, Developers, and Project Managers (and a Raffle!)
Everybody wants to impress learners and clients. Project managers want to handle the “how-much-time-will-this-take” question in a way that creates clarity and confidence. Designers and developers want to deliver content and media that engages. Here are five great tips that you can use on your next project!
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DevLearn 2015 Recap: Innovation in the Making
Over 2,800 eLearning professionals attended DevLearn this year, making it the largest gathering to date in The eLearning Guild’s history. Read about the award winners and find out how to see many of the presentations from the conference!
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Five More Tips for Designers to Kick Off October
There’s more to creating engaging eLearning than just writing learning objectives and knowing how to use authoring software. People appreciate and respond to a good story, an unexpected surprise, or an eLearning design that gets their attention. Here are five tips that will help you achieve those results.
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Get Your Game Together: Five Resources for Games and Gamification
Games and gamification are gaining increasing attention as ways to support and enhance learning, but it can be difficult to find good advice to guide their design. Fortunately, The eLearning Guild has many resources to help you out. Here are five of them.
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Tips: LMS and Analytics, Game Design, Mobile Performance Support, Interactive Webinars!
Do you get full value from your Guild membership? The eLearning Guild event archives, the Research Library, and other curated information is loaded with useful professional information you won’t find anywhere else. Come take a look at four examples!
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Five Resources for eLearning Developers: Little Tricks
An interactive checklist, mobile authoring, animated GIF creation, a spreadsheet template for quality assurance, and how to be your own voice-over artist. Maybe not something for every project, but you never know when you will need one of these. Put them in your toolkit!
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Four Resources for SMAC Technologies: Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud
Our colleagues in the IT department began talking about SMAC technologies several years ago, and slowly these have been making their way into instructional design and development. Here are four selections from The eLearning Guild archives for your consideration.