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Deeper Design: Putting It All Together
The end of any eLearning development project comes when you deliver the product. For the team of developers in this story, that will happen the week of September 12 (next week!). Here is the final chapter, in which the team deals with the authoring and user experience issues.
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Ask the Right Questions Before Designing eLearning
Clear goals and a design that focuses on these goals are what moves eLearning from forgettable to successful. Keeping the questions presented here—and their answers—firmly in mind throughout the design process can help.
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Nuts and Bolts: Working Out Loud: What’s In It for Organizations?
There’s a lot of conversation lately about working out loud and the benefits it brings to individual workers. At the same time, however, it’s a tough sell to make to leaders in some organizations. Here are the five chief benefits to the organization, explained in a way that’s hard to argue with!
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Ten Ways to Create Useful Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks in eLearning content can make the content more valuable to learners, but to be useful, the links have to be clear and meaningful. These 10 tips will ensure that links add value to your eLearning.
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SkillCamp: Linking Learning to Business Outcomes Through Performance Support
This article describes the creation of SkillCamp, a marketing and sales learning framework and academy in the agricultural industry that covers different content delivery methods, from classroom training to online performance support. It also discusses key principles of performance support and success factors for establishing such a framework.
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Deeper Design: Tweaking the Media
With the high-level issues resolved, the design team began to wrestle with and fine-tune key choices of implementation for those decisions. This was necessary before final development within an authoring tool could be successful. This is a short story, but without it the course could never be realized.
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Back to Basics: Avoid Assumptions in eLearning Design
When targeting training to adults, eLearning designers cannot safely assume any technical knowledge unless the training is specifically geared toward a technical audience. Learners might have learned to use specific tools or instruments for their work, but that does not necessarily translate to ease with email, social networks, or even a computer mouse.
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Deeper Design: Beyond Traditional Instructional Design
“Deeper design” goes beyond traditional instructional design to reflect on what’s known about how we learn and what that implies for the strategy. Too often we talk about “content” without talking about the subtleties. Continuing the story of how a team of designers implemented these ideas, here is their high-level process as they move from the objectives to deciding on pedagogy.
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Video on Your Budget and Your Schedule
Learners retain information presented visually better than information presented only as text. Microlearning videos, as part of an eLearning strategy, enhance the effectiveness of training. Create low-budget, high-engagement microlearning videos with free tools!
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Ten Tips for Hiring a Stellar eLearning Freelancer
Are you looking for help developing eLearning content? The fast-growing freelance market can provide a wealth of skills and expertise that is cost-effective, flexible, and agile. These 10 tips will help you hire the best eLearning freelancer.