How can you continually improve the learning experiences you design to make them more effective? Pull these levers a bit more with every new effort. 1. Motivation Start with the person. Who are the … [Read more...]
Starting a Learning Design Team
It may not be as easy as pressing a button, but with enough research and planning, your organization can build a learning design team. You will need to define its purpose and understand the roles that … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
Whether you're dealing with stakeholders, subject matter experts, internal clients or external customers, some issues are bound to arise during the design and development of learning experiences. … [Read more...]
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
With 6 Additional Sites Added From Readers!
Paid stock photo sites have many advantages over the free ones because of their massive collections, efficiency of search filters, light boxes for saving favorites and (hopefully) better pay for … [Read more...]
ELC 067: Educating the New Instructional Designer
A Conversation with Jason McDonald
How should instructors and professors educate instructional designers to meet the needs of the modern workplace? This episode focuses on the challenges and solutions facing instructional design … [Read more...]
Answers To Instructional Design Career Questions
I get lots of emails from people who are considering a career in instructional design. In fact, that's why I created a free 12-lesson email course called Breaking into Instructional Design. It's all … [Read more...]
Planning A Training Video Production
Did you ever end up on a project that required video and somehow you became the default expert? That's what happened to me early in my career. At first, it was a bit unnerving. But like any hard-core … [Read more...]
How to Unstock Stock Photos for eLearning and Slides
Most people know that stock photos for eLearning and slides are often substandard. When you need photos of people performing various jobs, stock photo collections seem flooded with images of people … [Read more...]
Long-Term Memory: A User’s Guide
When you're designing learning experiences, long-term memory is the ultimate destination. It's the promised land—where you want newly learned skills and content to integrate with a person's network of … [Read more...]
ELC 066: Best Of | How to Write Compelling Stories
A Conversation with Lisa Cron
Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story, is passionate about the power and value of stories for learning. In this conversation (recorded in 2013), Lisa will convince you that it is through stories that … [Read more...]
Five Resources for Estimating Development Time – Update
How long does it take?
Are you unsure of how to answer the big question: How long does it take to develop one hour of online learning? As you might expect, there is no one answer to this complex question because there … [Read more...]
Creating Interactive Content With H5P
If you're looking for a way to make web content interactive, check out H5P. It is a user-friendly application that makes it easy for LX designers, writers, presenters and publishers to deliver … [Read more...]