Mark Lassoff
Founder, Dollar Design School
Over two million people have learned coding and design from Mark Lassoff. Mark and his company are pioneers in new media learning, having created the first streaming media network dedicated to learning workforce and career skills. They produce broadcast-quality learning content that focuses on digital skills such as design, coding, and digital productivity. Mark is an in-demand speaker and has traveled the world to teach. He was named to the 40 under 40 in both Austin, Texas, and Hartford, CT. In 2017, Mark was awarded the prestigious Learning Guild Guild Master Award.
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Coding Sound With JavaScript: Beginner’s Guide
Coding sound with JavaScript is fairly straightforward, thanks to the availability of an API. This tutorial shows the way to audio digital learning content.
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Top JavaScript Libraries for eLearning Developers
JavaScript libraries give the developer the freedom to focus on creating the eLearning application. Libraries are often free to use and easy to learn.
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Understanding Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Application Programming Interfaces allow your eLearning to connect to real-time information. Here’s how to build an API.
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Development Tips: Search Engine Optimization—A Beginner’s Guide
Search engine optimization (SEO) is important to eLearning creators, or it should be. Here is a fast overview of what to do so that people can find your content!
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Coding Responsive Design in Easy Steps
Authoring tools may offer some responsive design support, but in a code-based project, responsive features are harder to implement. Here’s how to handle them.
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Development Tips: Design for Touch (A Touching Tutorial for Mobile Device Interactions)
People interact with mobile devices in a completely different manner than traditional point-and-click learning interactions. People want to interact with learning content in the same way they might interact with other applications on their phone or tablet. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add some mobile gestures to learning content.
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Raise the Bar: Stealing from Television
Since the beginning, broadcasters have been coming up with techniques to engage us, stimulate us, and keep us focused on the tube. Many of these techniques can be easily adapted for eLearning, and when used correctly, further engage consumers of learning content.
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Raise the Bar: Removing Backgrounds in Photoshop
Removing photo backgrounds so you can use an object in an image is a common task in Photoshop, but it’s not an easy one. Upon mastering this task, you can composite engaging images for inclusion in your learning content.
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Raise the Bar: YouTube, the World’s Largest LMS
If you and your organization are not on YouTube, you are missing out—even if you are an in-house learning and development group. The mechanical process for developing a YouTube presence has been well documented elsewhere. YouTube strategy is perhaps more difficult to get correct. Here are some tips for getting your YouTube channel off to a strong start.
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Raise the Bar: Shooting and Editing Green-Screen Video
Green-screen video has been around for years, but many eLearning producers aren’t using it. There seems to be a false belief that it is too expensive or too difficult to do successfully. In this column, Mark shows you the tools (surprisingly inexpensive) and techniques (surprisingly easy) you need to get started!