These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books - Atlas Obscura
Visual maps of the branching structure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
Blog posts
Next Level Course — Zen Courses
Zen courses offers a "course blueprint" product to help teams map out a curriculum. The scope is very well defined, with a fixed price of $2500 ($500 deposit to secure a spot, the rest paid before the 1st call), 3-4 weeks timeline, booked in advance. Nice use of scarcity ("only 2 spots left for 2018!"). She has a "who is this for" and "who is this not for" list--not for solo entrepreneurs. If they decide to book her for a full course dev, she gives them a credit to that work.
How to Easily Move Your Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
Step by step directions to migrate a blog
Free WordPress Blog Setup
WP Beginner's free service to migrate blogs from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org
Redirect Regular Expressions | Redirection
Directions for setting up a redirect using the Redirection plugin. Use this to redirect from dates in the permalink to just the title
Inclusive and Universal Design Resources for Accessibility in eLearning
An extensive collection of resources and archived presentations by Brian Dusablon regarding accessibility for elearning
ONE level of exaggeration - Learnlets
Exaggerate a little in scenarios for learning to increase the stakes of decisions without fundamentally changing the decisions themselves. A little exaggeration keeps it exciting, but too much makes it unbelievable.
Aesthetic Usability Effect | Laws of UX
18 "laws of UX": principles of user experience and how people interact with sites and online content. Some of this is visual design and visual communication; some is interaction design. I'm not sure that the Pareto principle is really a UX law, since it applies in many other situations, but you can stretch the definition a bit.
Set LearnDash lessons to completed Storyline triggers - Building Better Courses Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
How to modify Steven Warwick's javascript for tracking Captivate and iSpring lessons in Wordpress LMSs (LearnDash and LifterLMS) so it works with Storyline.
What questions should I ask to get a good testimonial? – Meg Cumby Consulting
Asking clients for testimonials is a way to establish credibility and get more clients. These questions help guide clients and customers to provide better quality testimonials.
How to Conduct a Lightning-Fast Needs Assessment Clients Will Love
7 questions for needs assessment to help you figure out if you're addressing the actual problem and if that problem can be addressed with training or some other solution.
The PLExD Toolkit | Promethean Learning Experience Design
A collection of free and open source tools for project management, graphic design, collaboration, audio, video, and other utilities.
nappy | Beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people
Free images of black and brown people. Helpful to counter the "whiteness" of most stock photo libraries.
Clive on Learning: Gender equality and the design dilemma
Do you think about gender representation when selecting images for elearning? This post doesn't mention other forms of representation, but I think the discussion of organizational culture applies to other dimensions of inclusion too.
15 Funny Lorem Ipsum Generators to Shake Up Your Design Mockups
Tired of lorem ipsum? What about cupcakes, bacon, cats, or Bob Ross?
Does Gamification Actually Work? Yes, and Here's Why | BLP
Gamification works when it's designed thoughtfully and stays focused on learning goals. Sharon Boller shares guidelines and picks apart some questionable research.
1. Keep game complexity simple, particularly when you are using a game to support relatively short lessons.
<strong>2. Reward players for performance, not completion</strong>.
<strong>3. Be cautious with leaderboards</strong>.
4. As much as possible, align the game element choices you use to the learner’s actual job context.
<strong>5. Make the in-game goal align with the learning goal in a reasonable way that “makes sense” for the learners who will play your game or complete your gamified lesson</strong>.
6. Stop thinking you have to make the game super “fun.”
Custom HTML5 timeline for Articulate Storyline 360
Create a custom seekbar with a web object in Storyline. Only works for HTML5, not Flash. Download their widget for free and use it as a web object on any slide where you need a seekbar. Note: it's free, but you have to share the post on social media in order to download it.
Ultimate List Of The Best Online Course Platforms
This is geared toward individual experts or consultants who want to launch their own self-service courses. For most of this audience, they don't even want to self-host with LearnDash (although he mentions that too). I am periodically contacted by people who fit this audience and don't have the resources to hire an instructional designer. This might be a helpful article for that audience.
Vectr - Free Online Vector Graphics Editor
Free tool for creating vector graphics with a desktop and cloud version
Create Beautiful Custom Dropdown Menus With jQuery—Storyline Edition - eLearning Brothers
Storyline doesn't have built-in dropdown menus. This jquery example (with sample files) shows a method for creating them without using a bunch of layers and triggers
Hack ID
Free resources for new instructional designers, including free courses and ebooks
DISABILITY IMAGES
Royalty-free images of people with disabilities for purchase
A Habit-based Approach to Racial Bias | Usable Learning
Summary of research that successfully reduced implicit bias by helping people recognize their bias and establish new habits for behavior. Several strategies are described, including taking others' perspective and using positive counter examples.
The 2018 Learning Solutions Conference Backchannel - Curated Resources #LSCon - David Kelly
David Kelly's collected resources from the 2018 Learning Solutions Conference
Does Humor Enhance Learning?
A summary of research on humor in learning. Most of the research seems to be in academic environments rather than workplace ones. Non-aggressive humor can be effective in some instances.
How much does an educational animation cost per minute: $30, $150 or $3000? - F.learning Studio
The lower two prices generally reflect work done in developing countries. This describes the differences in what you'll get for animation at different price points.
Time and Cost Considerations in Developing an Online Course | Center for Educational Innovation
University of Minnesota calculations for creating online higher education courses, with the level of effort for each one.
The number of hours required for course design and development covers a wide range from 70 - 600 hours, with an average of about 250 hours.
5 Steps to Using Design Thinking in Learning Experience Design
A quick introduction to design thinking and steps that can be incorporated into design for learning. Some of this may overlap with what you're already doing, such as interviewing learners and creating prototypes.
Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations - SlidesCarnival
Templates for PowerPoint for Google Slides. A good place for inspiration even if you aren't going to use the actual templates.
Cracking the Case Design: How Duke TIP Does PBL
Using mysteries as the basis for Problem-Based learning with cases to solve. While this is for K12 classrooms, I think you could apply some of the same story elements to creating scenarios for workplace training.