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Top Tips for Producing Better eLearning Audio by Jennifer De Vries & Stephen Haskin : Learning Solutions Magazine
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.
·learningsolutionsmag.com·
Top Tips for Producing Better eLearning Audio by Jennifer De Vries & Stephen Haskin : Learning Solutions Magazine
RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service
RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service
Random number generator. Enter a min and max. Good for making sure your correct answers in multiple choice questions actually are randomly distributed (not always C) and for generating random distractors for numeric questions
·random.org·
RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service
Flipping the conversation at ElNet Workplace Learning Congress | Explorations in learning
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.
·explorationsinlearning.wordpress.com·
Flipping the conversation at ElNet Workplace Learning Congress | Explorations in learning
Online Course Development: What Does It Cost? -- Campus Technology
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.
·campustechnology.com·
Online Course Development: What Does It Cost? -- Campus Technology
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get
When clients ask for crappy e-learning or provide unreasonable deadlines that don't allow for quality development, we need to push back. Being timid doesn't makes us team players, just pushovers. This is one of the benefits of freelance work for me--I can set boundaries and turn down the crappy jobs to focus on more rewarding work.
·skillagents.com·
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
Step by step directions on sharing Articulate courses in Google Drive. This would be great for a portfolio. I haven't tested it, but the directions probably work for Captivate or other tools as well. An alternate (slightly simpler) set of directions for getting the hosting URL are here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
·community.articulate.com·
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra
Capterra's analysis of top LMSs by customers, users, and social media popularity. Many people only review 2-3 LMSs before making a decision. This list gives people some additional choices to review while still being a manageable list. The explanation of their research is linked below the infographic.
·capterra.com·
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra