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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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Getting Started with xAPI: Four Lines of Code
You can use xAPI to track a lot of different things. And at first, it might sound overly difficult, to the point of almost being like magic. But it’s actually very simple to use! And you can start creating this magic by learning the simple four-step process of sending an xAPI statement.
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Lean Software Development Emphasizes Efficient Workflow for eLearning Projects
Lean software development, based on the Lean Production System, emphasizes building quality into a product from day one and creating an efficient workflow. It’s a popular iterative approach to eLearning design and development.
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In Real Life: Modern Learning Is Spelled V-A-L-U-E
Value is the ultimate qualifier in terms of learning strategy effectiveness. Therefore, when modernizing our learning practices, we must ask whether our efforts provide value to key audiences within our organizations.
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Infographic: Seven Tips for a Successful Consulting Project
Thinking about setting out on your own? Already moved into consulting and want to improve your process? This chart will help you along your way!
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DemoFest Winner Deploys “Project Popsicle” to Boost Vitamin Angels
When BYOD means bring your OLD device, TorranceLearning turns to USB sticks to deliver xAPI-powered, multilingual eLearning to remote parts of Africa and Asia.
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Learners Can Take Well-Designed Microlearning Anywhere!
Microlearning works best if it is narrowly focused, clear, and, above all, concise. That means careful attention to design is required.
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Buzzword Decoder: Wireframing
Wireframing offers an alternative to bullet points and notes as a way to visualize an app, its content, and the navigational and functional elements of the design.
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Marc My Words: Rooting Out Waste in Training Programs—Project Level Factors
Learning not taking hold in your organization? It may be because you have lots of training activities, but also have lots of training waste. Waste can be found in what you do—or don’t do—to enable people to learn, and then to translate that learning into valued performance. This is where your training strategy comes into play.
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Instructional Design and Visual Design: The Pillars of Great eLearning
Poor design can sink an eLearning program—and the flaws might be in the instructional design or the visual design. Both are essential; creating successful eLearning demands that the visual design and instructional design work together.