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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 ...

By: Ethan Edwards | Jun, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning

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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 ...

By: Edmond Manning | Jun, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning

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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 ...

By: Ethan Edwards | May, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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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 ...

By: Steve Lee | May, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Digital Engineering

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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 ...

By: Nicole Mellas | May, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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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 ...

By: Ethan Edwards | May, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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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 ...

By: Angel Green | May, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning

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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 ...

By: Hannah Hunter | Apr, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning

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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: ...

By: Ellen Burns-Johnson | Apr, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Strategic Consulting

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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 ...

By: Ethan Edwards | Apr, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning

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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 ...

By: Ann Iverson | Apr, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning, Digital Engineering

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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 ...

By: Ellen Burns-Johnson | Apr, 2015
Categories: Custom Learning