Elearning Design
ELearning design builds upon instructional design, adding the context of the tools and technologies used to build and consume elearning experiences.
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LeaderChat with April Petrey
April Petrey, a seasoned leader in strategy for start-ups, joins us for this month’s LeaderChat. She is here to share why she founded her consulting firm Allonsy Innovation, and takes us on a deep dive into the blind spots she experienced from both the L&D industry, as well as start-up leaders.
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Book Review: Collaborative Learning, by Nick Hernandez
Collaborative Learning: How to Upskill From Within and Turn L&D Into Your Competitive Advantage is an ideal introduction to collaborative learning.
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Unveiling the Art of Visual Design
Learn how to elevate your designs and bring your content to life with this comprehensive compilation of Guild resources on visual design from the past five years.
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Five Essential Practices for More Accessible Digital Content
A common question about accessibility in eLearning is: “Where do I begin?” Here are five essential practices for more accessible digital content.
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Countdown to DevLearn: Lessons from Classic Games to Design Games for Learning
You are invited on an adventure to uncover the history of learning games, discover how to leverage the ideas, insights and innovations from earlier games into your own design of games, and have some fun in the process. A game doesn’t become a classic by happenstance. It takes good design, attention to detail, and a […]
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Metrics + Milestones = Onboarding Success
Why go to the expense of designing, developing, and implementing a training initiative and not collecting data that demonstrates success (or failure)?
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You’ve Got a Friend
A mentor or buddy system not only provides reinforcement for what was learned but also allows your new hire to ask questions they may not have wanted to ask while in class or were unable to ask in an eLearning.
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Case Study: Driving Behavior Change with Marketing Techniques
The ultimate goal of learning is to drive a behavior change. After all—if engaging in learning changes nothing about ones actions, what was the point? In this context, all learning has an element of change management, and as you’ll learn in this case study session, all change management involves good marketing. You’ll learn how Bluewater, […]
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Cohort Learning Challenges: Meeting the Engagement Needs of Hybrid Workers
In today’s world of hybrid work where many employees are working remotely, feeling disconnected from their colleagues and facing a variety of distractions, it is becoming increasingly important to find innovative ways to engage them in learning. To address this challenge, instructional designers are turning to successful techniques from outside the traditional learning and development […]
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The Power of Learner Personas to Create Outstanding Learning Experiences
In times of overloaded schedules, smartphones, and on-demand resources everywhere, it is getting more and more difficult to get through to our learners. L&D programs need to be ruthlessly relevant to our learners so we can see some real behavior change and positive performance outcomes. One way to achieve this is through learner personas. Marketers […]