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Inside the Walls of Allen Interactions: Three Lessons about e-Learning from ...

By Mindy Waltz-Bach, Instructional Designer It has been one year since I landed in the Mendota Heights, Minnesota office as an Instructional Designer ...

By: Mindy Waltz-Bach | Sep, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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Five Lessons We Can Learn from Millennials About e-Learning

By Sloane Bâby, Instructional Writer

By: Sloane Bâby | Sep, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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7 Best Practices to Create e-Learning Courses For Digital Immigrants

By Guest Blogger Christopher Pappas / @cpappas

By: Christopher Pappas | Aug, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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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 ...

By: Ellen Burns-Johnson | Aug, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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Four Instructional Design Lessons Inspired by the Lord of the Rings

By Kody Jackson, MA, Instructional Writer Intern Instructional design is a lot like The Lord of the Rings. This isn’t the most obvious of ...

By: Kody Jackson | Aug, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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What Makes e-Learning Work?

By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanaedwards

By: Ethan Edwards | Aug, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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Erase Boring e-Learning: Show What You Know

By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanaedwards I love finding inspiration for better instructional design in unlikely sources. My ...

By: Ethan Edwards | Jul, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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Pokémon Go: 3 Lessons for Instructional Designers

By Edmond Manning, Senior Instructional Strategist Surely you’ve heard the news stories. Pokémon Go players lured to robberies or stepping blindly ...

By: Edmond Manning | Jul, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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The Magic of Starting from Scratch: Five Ways to Optimize Learning Design ...

By Ann Iverson, Instructional Designer Have you baked a cake lately? If so—and be honest—did you use the box, or did you make it from scratch? It’s ...

By: Ann Iverson | Jul, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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Gameful Design

By Edmond Manning, Senior Instructional Strategist I want you to read every line of this blog post, so here’s what I’m going to do. I will give you ...

By: Edmond Manning | Jun, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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Piloting your e-Learning Course – A Beginner’s Guide

By Hannah Hunter, Instructional Writer Did you know that the pilot episode of Star Trek included only one member of the Enterprise crew: Mr. Spock? ...

By: Hannah Hunter | Jun, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning

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7 Tips to Make Your Compliance Online Training Courses Mobile

By Guest Blogger Christopher Pappas / @cpappas Your employees probably aren't thrilled about your upcoming compliance online training course. But ...

By: Christopher Pappas | Jun, 2016
Categories: Custom Learning