When you’re working on a team, it’s usually assumed that you’ll all use the same software platforms so you can more easily share projects, files, and have a shared set of capabilities across the team. For example – it’s helpful if everybody uses the same app suite for designing eLearning content, or...
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After listening to this episode of the stellar Daily Tech News Show a while back, there was a discussion about “sponsored content”. They raised questions like “where is the line between independent journalism and advertising?” “Is it different for different...
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months.
I decided to take a multi‐modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low‐touch eLearning experiences with...
The Coronavirus quarantine has given all kinds of non‐technical computer users a crash course in Zoom online meetings. This creates an opportunity for those users to develop skills in recording their own high‐quality explainer videos, screencasts, and lecture sessions. Zoom’s record meeting featu...
Harnessing Turned‐On Brains
A live learning conference or training event can be a busy, chaotic, and stimulating setting for learning new things. Not only are you following a packed schedule of interesting speakers exposing you to new ideas, but you’re also surrounded by other professionals like y...
Whether you’re designing a presentation, an online course, or just updating your blog, your choice of images can add meaning to your message, or completely distract from it. At worst, poorly‐chosen images can diminish your credibility, distract your audience, and even get you into legal trouble (!!!...
You, the learner, are the most important person in any learning or training experience. Not the teacher, not the textbook, not the technology. You.
According to learner‐centered instruction, the focus needs to be on what information you retain, the lasting insights you create, and the skills you...
My process for creating animated motion graphics is unconventional but it has distinct advantages over the industry standard method of using Adobe AfterEffects or CC Animate. Instead, I design a slide deck in Apple Keynote using slide transitions and object builds, export the timed presentation as a...
This is a pretty dense, fiber‐full article about backward learning design by one of my instructional design heroes, Michael Feldstein. It introduces the concept of Backwards Design (part of Understanding by Design, which he also introduces). Most importantly, it makes the case that designing course...
I recently started planning a three‐day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active lear...