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End Boring e-learning: Allen Academy Adds a New 4-hour Intro Course
Design 100 explores the fundamentals of designing effective and engaging e-learning.
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Shifting to virtual? Here are 10 ideas for starting up remote instruction
Offices, schools, and colleges everywhere are shutting down for days or weeks to slow down the spread of COVID-19, also known as the novel ...
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Dear Designer: What Type of ID Are You?
“Dear Designer” is a blog series on orienting novice practitioners to the discipline of instructional design and learning experience design.
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Gamification: 3 Steps to Get the Recipe Right
Ellen Burns-Johnson - September 17, 2019 There are many recipes for successful employee engagement. Gamification is just one ingredient. Gamification ...
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Microlearning: Overcoming 4 Assumptions
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson If we’re not focused on the right problems, we can’t be sure that microlearning is ...
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Three Guidelines for Meaningful Microlearning
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @ellenbjohnson Last week, my Studio Executive and I visited a client in California. The meeting went ...
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Three Tips to Avoid the “Dark Side” of Microlearning
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson So you’re thinking about creating microlearning. Maybe your learners demand it. Maybe ...
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Three Reasons to Love Text in e-Learning
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson So there you are. Your e-learning project is coming along nicely: The content has ...
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Three Solid Instructional Design Principles in The Big Short
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson The Big Short is a recently released dark comedy that explores the 2008 financial ...
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Three Things You Don't Need in Your Microlearning Video
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson It was Monday night. All I wanted was something to help me relax after a long day of ...
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How to Use Context to Create Meaning in Learning Games
By Ellen Burns-Johnson, Instructional Designer / @ellenBjohnson I find the mobile game BADLAND really engaging. I've beaten more than 80 of the ...
