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The best way to help learners see the big picture? Start small - Rapid Learning Institute
Research comparing teaching the big picture as an integrated whole versus a series of short lessons on single topics. Breaking the content into smaller chunks and focusing on each one separately worked better.
Five Steps to Evaluate and Select an LMS: Proven Practices by Steve Foreman : Learning Solutions Magazine
Series of articles on LMSs. Selection, implementation, operation and governance, and the future of LMSs with xAPI.
Summertime Tips for Parents Who Work From Home - E-Learning Uncovered
Practical tips for juggling a work schedule and kids when working from home. My 1-year-old isn't independent enough for most of this to work for me now, but in a few years this will be more relevant to my situation.
The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger
Extensive list of sources for free images, many of which are Creative Commons or public domain
eLearning Wiki
Wiki by Kevin Wilcoxon with lengthy articles on learning and training. Categories are foundations, teaching online, course development, and the future (including references to the Serious e-Learning Manifesto). Currently everything is written by Kevin but you can sign up to contribute.
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.
The Institute for Performance Improvement - IDBadges
Badges for instructional designers in various areas. Not sure if employers would actually care about this or recognize the organization, but it's an interesting idea for peer-reviewed credentials.
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.
Quandary
Freeware application for creating "action mazes" or branching scenarios
Guest Posts
This summarizes some of my own discomfort with guest posts but articulates it more clearly than I could.
Will at Work Learning: Triggered Action Planning
Easy tip for improving follow up actions after training
SCORM Watch
Tool for troubleshooting SCORM files that lets you actually analyze the errors. It's not cheap, but if you're spending lots of hours with trial and error guessing at what might fix a problem, it's probably worth it.
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.
Why choose Standard over Simple action? - Captivate blog
Lieve Weymeis explains why she recommends using standard actions even for actions like Show and Hide that can be completed as simple actions.
Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog
Tips on drag and drop interactions in Captivate. If you've seen drag and drop actions continue when you expected them to pause, read this post.
Microsoft Office Mix review – a potential new player in digital learning? | eLearning Instructional Design Specialists in Articulate Storyline, Lectora and LMS | Learning Tech, Auckland, NZ
Microsoft's entry into the e-learning world is a lightweight but free PowerPoint add-in. You can record presentations and do basic quizzing. They have their own reporting tool, but you can't use it in an LMS.
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.
Demos and Examples on Interactive Stories
Vignettes Learning Story Impacts demos from ebook
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.
Recovering corrupt Adobe Captivate projects | CP Guru - Adobe Captivate Widgets
This process did work for me in Cp8, although the restored file still didn't seem to have any of my lost work even though the time stamp was right.
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.
I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts
speed up production with captivate shortcuts
Setting up Preferences in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd
Lots of troubleshooting tips here with explanations of how to use the preferences.
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
What Instructional Designers Don't Want to Hear
What do we dread hearing from clients? All of these!
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.
Why the Former Teacher May be Your Next Star Employee – Part II | James L. Simers
Comparing ATD's list of core competencies to the skills teachers already have. Teachers who want to switch careers might find this helpful for figuring out how to speak the language of business and explain how their skills transfer
Blank Cell Images - an album on Flickr
Cute idea for comics or scenarios--create scenes with lego people or other toys. These images are licensed CC-By-NC-SA. This photographer also has an album with some of the same images and talk boxes already added.
E-Learning Portfolios: Share Your Work - E-Learning Heroes
Sample e-learning portfolios, submitted for an e-Learning Challenge. Good place to look for inspiration.