Allen Interactions Blog


Blog
Does Your E-Learning Create Learner Indifference? Try These Five Ideas
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist One of my greatest frustrations as an e-learning designer is how impervious the field seems to be to ...

Blog
What If We Reviewed e-Learning Courses Like We Reviewed Movies?
by Edmond Manning, Senior Instructional Strategist What if there were e-learning critics just like movie critics? What if learners decided whether to ...

Blog
A Commencement Address for e-Learning
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist It’s that time of year when our children and grandchildren and nieces and nephews are wrapping up ...

Blog
To LMS or Not to LMS...Is That The Question?
By Steve Lee, Co-founder AICC, SCORM, xAPI, TinCan, LMS, LCMS, LRS, wow so many acronyms, so much confusion, so much promise and yet so much ...

Blog
10 Blogs for Working With SMEs To Create Performance-Changing e-Learning
by Nicole Mellas, Instructional Designer On Wednesday, June 24th, I’ll be presenting a complimentary 30-minute webinar on 3 Strategies For IDs to Get ...

Blog
Context in e-Learning Design: From Routine To Remarkable
By Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist On Sunday I had the privilege of being in the audience at the final performance of The Chicago Lyric ...

Blog
The World of e-Learning Design Through a Child
by Angel Green, senior instructional strategist | @LearnerAdvocate Last week, in the US, we celebrated the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ...

Blog
The Drawing Board: Using Paper Prototypes to Proof e-Learning Design
by Hannah Hunter, instructional writer There are some things that words just can’t describe. Articulating a highly complex, branching e-learning ...

Blog
Q&A: Three Quick Ideas for Creating Interactive e-Learning
by Ellen Burns-Johnson, instructional writer/designer | @EllenBJohnson More than 200 participants joined last week's 30-minute complimentary webinar: ...

Blog
Creating e-Learning Designs That Fit
by Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist A couple weeks ago I had the privilege to travel to Shanghai to speak at the Online Learning China ...

Blog
The SCORM Guide for Instructional Designers
by Ann Iverson, instructional designer | @iverson_ann If you’re like me, you have a basic understanding of the technical side of what we do. You try ...

Blog
Effort, Time & Focus: A Recipe For Interactive e-Learning
by Ellen Burns-Johnson, instructional writer/designer Do you remember notes? Good, old-fashioned notes, written on paper, and likely ornamented with ...