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Related: olgapelaezalvarez • StorytellingMicro-learning Tutorial: how to create micro-learning in under 1 hour – eLearningArt Micro-learning was the #1 eLearning trend picked by the experts for 2018. But how to you implement that at your organization?… Is it just taking a longer course and chunking it into sections? Is it a mini-scenario? A short video? How to Make Great Corporate Training Videos Video is one of the most popular ways to deliver and consume content on the internet. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat all encourage people to watch and share short, informal videos. This makes employees particularly receptive to video in corporate learning programs.
Responsive Course Design What Is Responsive Design? Responsive Design is an approach to creating content that allows for an optimal user experience across a wide variety of devices, including phones, tablets, and desktop devices. The content should be usable across these devices with a minimum of zooming or panning, allowing the user to get the best content experience available on each device. Digital Storytelling Challenges In his book, The New Digital Storytelling, Bryan Alexander defines digital storytelling as, “simply put, telling stories with digital technologies” (4). However, he explains that pairing the words “digital” and “storytelling” together proves to be problematic for public audiences, as the two words are often perceived with two separate spheres. Alexander expresses, “Pairing these two words can still elicit surprise or even shock for some, if the listener expects the two domains to be fundamentally separate. ‘Storytelling’ suggests the old storyteller, connected to a bardic or Homeric tradition, a speaker enrapturing an immediate audience” (4) while the word “digital” is associated with “data without meaningful patterns” (4). Alexander further describes how public audiences perceive the contrast between “digital” vs. “storytelling” as he says, “Data are cold, while stories are warm.
What is Rapid eLearning? The term “rapid eLearning” dates back to a 2004 report by Bersin and Associates. Since the emergence of the phrase “rapid eLearning,” eLearning thought leaders have interpreted the term in many different ways, and the debate continues. Sometimes the term refers to the software and process used to quickly create eLearning content and courses, and sometimes it refers to learning delivered in short, quick electronic-based modules. Before you begin a rapid eLearning project, it’s important to make sure everyone involved has the same understanding of rapid eLearning and is working under the same accepted guidelines.
Transmedia Storytelling Tools: Part 1 - Images and Multimedia Over the past few year, I've been exploring transmedia and non-linear storytelling. Transmedia storytelling is the practice of telling a story across multiple platforms and formats. It follows the distributed, non-linear way the web is set up, with hyperlinks and content split across multiple sites, and is a radically different way of telling stories. Part of my research has been on the tools we can use to do this. I've listed a few below. Hopefully you can use a few of them to start telling new kinds of digital stories.
5 Myths About eLearning Myth #1: Only instructional designers can make eLearning courses. Truth: Anyone can make an eLearning course. It can even be creative, engaging, and effective! All you need is the right authoring tool, like Lectora® Inspire eLearning software. Storyboarding for eLearning What is storyboarding? A storyboard for eLearning is a document that eLearning developers create in the beginning of the development phase to outline the visuals, text and audio elements, interactions, navigation and anything else that will be used in the eLearning course. Storyboards serve as the course blueprint and help set the expectations for the development of a course, while saving time and encouraging team collaboration. Why is storyboarding important? Storyboarding is crucial to the development of an excellent eLearning course for many reasons. All members of the eLearning development team will reference the storyboard for guidance and direction.
Mobile Learning is Calling – Are You Answering? If you’re not implementing some sort of mobile learning strategy, now is the time to start. Consider this: We check our smartphones an average of 150 times a day29% of Americans own a mobile tablet or e-reader device50% of Training and Development professionals use an iPad or tablet at work1 in 3 minutes spent online is now spent beyond the PC Mobile learning is a rapidly evolving landscape. Here is a brief summary of the top trends:
Design Futuring Workshop — Paul Roberts Through an extensive literature review and a series of interviews with experts in design methods and emerging technologies, we identified two primary sources of inspiration for our workshop format: Dan Lockton’s Drawing Energy project and the Extrapolation Factory’s Futurescope workshops. We decided to combine aspects of both workshops to address our desire for both personal reflection and future exploration. Our workshop participants would partake in a creative drawing exercise and discussion to share their existing relationship to popular technology services such as Facebook, Amazon and Netflix. They would then participate in a futuring exercise in which they choose a prediction, or “signal”, from a professional futurist and trace it through a process of exploring the potential social, ethical and political implications of that prediction. Finally, they would make their own speculative object designed to capture one aspect of the future scenario they envisioned.
What is eLearning Localization? Spend any time in the eLearning industry, and you’re sure to hear the term localization at least a few times. If you’ve heard of localization, you probably have a few questions. And if you hadn’t heard of it before, now you have. What is eLearning There are as many types of e-Learning software available as there are e-Learning needs. Before you begin your search for e-Learning software, you must first decide what kind of e-Learning software will best meet your needs. The most common types of e-Learning software are listed below. Authoring Tools Authoring tools enable designers to create and publish multimedia e-Learning content.
Using e-Learning Templates Templates give you the ability to set the graphic user interface (GUI), create object and image libraries and even create different page layouts to meet different needs. When you need to get a course or critical update out quickly, your developers won’t have to create the course from scratch, build objects or search for appropriate graphics. Plus, you’ll know that the course will be in compliance with your graphics and e-Learning standards. Key Considerations for Creating e-Learning Templates
How to Choose the Right Video Layout for You The beauty of VideoScribe is that we provide you with the perfect blank canvas to fill and shape with your ideas. But when the video possibilities are endless, where do you start? The answer is, with a layout. Composing your video in a layout that makes sense for your topic and your audience helps you stay on track and improves your audience’s experience. When it comes to choosing the right layout for your video, there are four main options to pick from.