Scenario design in elearning: Two types of feedback
Cathy Moore demonstrates the difference between "telling" feedback and "showing" feedback
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Learnlets » Games do teach
Clark Quinn's response to Ruth Clark's latest iteration of "Why Games Don't Teach." Quinn points out that Clark's definition of learning is mostly focused on memorization, but "remembering isn’t what’s going to make an organizational successful, it’s making better decisions, and that’s where games will shine."
StoryImpacts: 10 models of interactive stories
Examples of different types of interactive stories from Vignettes Learning. Free registration required.
Pipetting | Learning Solutions
Comic book style course on pipetting. Lets you choose your own avatar. Best of show (non-vendor) from Solution Fest 2013
Boring to Brilliant: 5 Tips to Convert Your E-Learning to a Story-based Approach
Diane Senffner on using storytelling for learning
8 Effective Scenario Ideas for Instructional Designers - eLearning Brothers | eLearning Brothers
Visual structures and story structures for scenario-based learning
5 Cost drivers of E-learning projects
The answer to "how much does a course cost" is "it depends." Here's 5 factors affecting pricing for e-learning projects: project management, instructional design, multimedia development, interactivity, and SME availability.
Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement | edX
In edX courses, about 6 minutes is the maximum length students will watch. In traditional online graduate courses for credit, the length could be longer, but this is a good reminder to keep things short.
The optimal video length is 6 minutes or shorter -- students watched most of the way through these short videos. In fact, the average engagement time of any video maxes out at 6 minutes, regardless of its length. And engagement times decrease as videos lengthen: For instance, on average students spent around 3 minutes on videos that are longer than 12 minutes, which means that they engaged with less than a quarter of the content.
eLearning Cyclops: Getting Started in eLearning
Jeff Goldman links to a free ebook on How to Get Started in eLearning, plus a few comments on getting into the field and links to training.
IDTopedia™
Glossary of instructional design and technology terms
Definitely Not One-Size-Fits-All: Learning and Development Job Titles — TheWorkSocial
A large list of job titles in the L&D world. This might be helpful for people job searching to have some other phrases and terms to look for.
Updated list 2014: http://theworksocial.com/blog/2014/4/25/learning-and-development-job-titles-2014
The eLearning Guild Releases 2014 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report by News Editor : Learning Solutions Magazine
2014 Salary survey results plus calculator
Learning Theories Gone Wild - Urban Myths that Hurt Your Learning Designs
Learning styles, Dale's Cone of Experience, the forgetting curve, and "learners know best": myths to disregard
Elearning checklist: Evaluate your instructional design
Cathy Moore's checklist for strong, action-oriented e-learning. This is a list of characteristics and you identify where you are on the spectrum between action-oriented and information dump.
The Manifesto | Serious eLearning Manifesto
Principles for "serious elearning"
<h5>Provide Realistic Practice</h5>
<p>We will provide learners sufficient levels of realistic practice; for example, simulations, scenario-based decision making, case-based evaluations, and authentic exercises.</p>
<h5>Enlist Authentic Contexts</h5>
<p>We will provide learners with sufficient experience in making decisions in authentic contexts.</p>
<h5>Provide Realistic Consequences</h5>
<p>When providing performance feedback during learning, we will provide learners with a sense of the real-world consequences.</p>
BranchTrack
Free tool for creating branching scenarios. See a sample course by Cathy Moore here. http://blog.djangolabs.com/scenarios/autoloon-ethics-training/
Online Course Development: What Does It Cost? -- Campus Technology
Time and cost estimates for online higher ed. The article and research are from 2004, and I expect these ratios have gone down in the last 10 years. The estimates here say it's a 10:1 ratio for faculty time and about $25K per credit hour.
Given the current campus infrastructure, personal knowledge tools, and the availability of digital content such as course cartridges, online cyber problems, and test banks, a recommended planning number today for experienced faculty is 10 hours per hour of instruction.
13 Questions to Ask When Scoping a Learning Development Engagement
A solid list of questions for prospective clients to help develop a proposal and determine the scope.
How storytelling in training changes people. 5 elements of an effective story. | Training x Design
5 elements of a story structure: a beginning, middle, and end; a main character; the main character faces a challenge, the main character struggles, and the main character changes.
Flipping the conversation at ElNet Workplace Learning Congress | Explorations in learning
Tanya Lau's detailed explanation of her presentation on "Flipping the conversation" to performance and performance support rather than focusing only on formal training content. Includes notes on how she recorded and edited video on her smartphone for the presentation. She gives credit to my post on "Selling Storytelling" as part of the inspiration for her presentation because of how I scripted conversation around business objectives and measurement.
8 Books To Read Before Your Next eLearning Project
A different reading list than many I've seen, with several selections outside of the main learning field. I've only read one of these eight books.
Report Card: Gamification in Learning (What Works?) by Carol Leaman : Learning Solutions Magazine
Lessons learned on what works for gamification: multiple levels, fun, variety, leaderboards, tangible rewards, virtual coaches, progress tracking, social connectivity.
Top Tips for Producing Better eLearning Audio by Jennifer De Vries & Stephen Haskin : Learning Solutions Magazine
Tips for writing scripts and recording audio. Tip #3 on "Conditional logic" is an odd name for it, but the tip is good.
A common instance of this is that your
screen directions should be, “When you’ve completed the exercise, click the
Next button.” If you write, “Click the Next button when you’ve completed the
exercise,” at least some participants will click Next before they listen to the
rest of the sentence.
Build a Better Online Training Team | Talance Blog
Overview of what roles need to be filled to develop e-learning. Some of these roles can overlap and be filled by the same person.
Articulate - Word of Mouth Blog - 5 Tips to Launch Your Career as an E-Learning Freelancer
Summary of tips from the Articulate freelancer community
1. Find your focus.
2. Save some money first.
3. Set up an online base of operations.
<strong>4. Create an online portfolio.</strong>
5. Track your time.
Free eLearning Books - The Ultimate List - eLearning Industry
50+ free e-learning ebooks. I wish these were sorted by topic or purpose rather than date, and I wish the authors or sources were consistently included in the descriptions. The descriptions are generally copied and pasted from the source, so no additional insight is added in the post. It's still a useful list though.
KeelWorks - Learning to live: Living to Learn
KeelWorks is a non-profit that regularly engages ID interns. Right now it's a 12-14 week unpaid program for 5 hours a week. It's a good way for people to get some experience before their first ID job.
id Layouts | eLearning Templates
E-Learning templates. Each template is available for purchase individually, rather than buying a package or subscription. Storyline and Captivate templates. The site is still new, but the library of options should increase in the future.
The True Cost of 1 Hour of Learning
Infographic based on Chapman's research on how long it takes to create different levels of e-learning, compared to ILT
OQAR :: Home
Online Quality Assurance Reviewer. Awkward name for a product, but it does similar functions to ReviewMyELearning. Reviewers can comment with each page of a course and IDs can collect feedback from everyone on the team. Unfortunately, they don't have a free trial, so there's no way to test it out and make sure it works for your courses without paying for it.