Let’s start with a little story- It’s 1998 and you’ve heard about a new restaurant across town. You need directions so you look at a paper map to figure out the route. Flash forward a decade and in 2008, you use Google Maps on your home computer to generate the route and then print out […]
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Recently, a client asked a seemingly simple and straightforward question, “What types of gamification can you make?” When asking an experienced learning designer with an Expert Level Gamification Design certification, you would think that this would be an easy question to answer. However, it’s not. Not because the question is difficult to answer, but because
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Is this story familiar to you? You took a 20-minute online course a month ago on the company’s new privacy guidelines. You’re about to email a third-party vendor some business data about your customers and you’re not sure if doing so is within the company’s new guidelines. You remember taking the course, but not the
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Is this story familiar to you? You took a 20-minute online course a month ago on the company’s new privacy guidelines. You’re about to email a third-party vendor some business data about your customers and you’re not sure if doing so is within the company’s new guidelines. You remember taking the course, but not the
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Within two years, over half of your workforce will be comprised of tech-savvy Millennials who expect to be engaged at work. If you deliver your learning in traditional eLearning formats, you will not engage these employees effectively, which will increase the probability of employee turnover. In this competitive market, you can’t afford to lose employees
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Those involved in conducting multi-center clinical trials know that managing Adverse Event (AE) reports received from global trial sites can be very problematic, especially when the reports are in a different language, include handwritten notes, and are received in faint scanned and faxed format. As one clinical trial safety manager told us, “One of the
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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the eLearning space about MicroLearning. There are many books, webinars, and workshop sessions at learning conferences exploring various aspects of MicroLearning. Is this just the latest learning fad or is this a learning design that’s worthwhile? In this first blog of a mini-series, we’ll explore MicroLearning, why
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Story design in eLearning is a hot topic. Just look at the schedule of any eLearning conference, and you’ll see many workshops that focus on different aspects of story design. Whether you are considering using story design for the first time, or you have used this approach in course development before, it’s a good idea
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Think back to the last time you took an online course. Regardless of what the topic was (soft skills, compliance, new software, etc.), I bet somewhere it included some objectives at the beginning of the course. You know what course objectives are… they start with a line like “In this course, learners will:” and then
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As an eLearning professional, which of the following characteristics of your content is most important to you when designing learning: Well written, Easy-to-use, Engaging, or Memorable? I would argue that being memorable is the most important. Why? Because learning is not an end unto itself, learning is a means to an end. We don’t learn