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Creating The Best e-Learning Design Ever!
By Richard Sites | Vice President - Training & Marketing | @rhillsites This is the holy grail of Instructional Design. The creation of the best ...

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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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5 Lessons for Designing Engaging e-Learning Interactions from Project Runway
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanedwards Earlier this month, I had the honor of speaking at the ATD TechKnowledge Conference ...

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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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10 Learning Design Blogs to Draw Inspiration From
When searching on Google for "Learning Design Blogs", a staggering amount of more than 117,000,000 search results appear. With this overwhelming ...

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3 Key e-Learning Design Steps From Pixar's Design Story
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanedwards I had the pleasure to spend some time earlier this month in the Cooper Hewitt, ...

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A Tribute to e-Learning Thought Leader, Jay Cross
By Michael Allen, Chairman & CEO, Allen Interactions Jay Cross. A friend and thought leader we’ll all miss dearly. Jay Cross was one of those ...

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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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Setting Expectations in a Collaborative Process like SAM
By Richard Sites | Vice President - Training & Marketing | @rhillsites In my third SAM Minutes Video, I explained important aspects involved with ...

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Hold the Phone (training)—5 Questions to Ask First
By Edmond Manning, Senior Instructional Strategist Regularly, I see clients get excited about the possibility of using phones for training without ...

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Avoiding Ugly e-Learning: Lessons From Holiday Sweaters
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanedwards 'Tis the season of holiday sweaters—each lovingly created with good intent, ...

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Achieving a Bountiful e-Learning Harvest
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanedwards I don’t know what it means that my random activities so often trigger comparisons to ...