eLearning Brothers Announces Full Session List for eLBX Live 2019
eLearning Brothers has released the full schedule for their learning tech conference on June 10 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference, eLBX Live 2019, is co-located with Learning DevCamp. “The knowledge and experience this year’s presenters bring to the table is...
eLearning Brothers Custom Team Wins 3 Gold Awards for Custom eLearning Development
Horizon Interactive Awards recognized the eLearning Brothers for their excellence in custom eLearning development and instructional video The eLearning Brothers custom development team announced it has received three gold awards from Horizon Interactive Awards, an...
eLBX Online Day 30 – An eLearning Interactivity Showcase
Instructional Design expert Misty Harding joined us today to close out eLBX Online. A mere mortal might have been intimidated being the grand finale of 6 weeks of amazing eLearning webinars, but Misty is no mere mortal. She showed up with her game face on and an...
eLBX Online Day 29 – Unique Ways to Create Interactivity in Storyline
Senior Developer Bill Milstid joined us today for an eye-opening look at how you can take simple actions and variables in Storyline and create really unique interactivity. Today was less of a step-by-step and more of a conceptual, inspiration-sparking look at ways to...
Flash Finder Is Here to Save the Day
You don’t need us to tell you that the eLearning industry changes nearly every day. But now, there’s a big shift on the horizon that has the potential to impact nearly any LMS—and thus, your learners. Let's rewind back to when the change began... 2010: Apple®...
eLBX Online Day 28 – How to Develop Accessible eLearning
eLearning developer Dan Frazee joined us today to share some step-by-step methods essential to developing accessible courses. In the webinar, he demonstrated where to find the accessibility settings in each of the top three authoring tools—Adobe Captivate,...
eLBX Online Day 27 – How to Design Accessible eLearning
Are you committed to delivering accessible eLearning, but not sure where or how to start? You might be surprised by how many others are in that same boat! In this webinar, Instructional Designer Nancy Reyes walked attendees through the essentials of designing...
eLBX Online Day 26 – A Beginner’s Guide to 508 Compliance
We are in the final week of eLBX Online! Today we kicked things off with a bang with guest Laura Silver, Chief Operating Officer at Trivantis. This session studied the goals and results of designing and developing eLearning for usability versus accessibility. Laura...
eLBX Online Day 24 – Adding the Human Element to eLearning
As instructional designers, we talk a lot about adding the “human element” to our training, but what does it really mean? Is it more than just having an image of our narrator on the screen? Yes, it is! There’s a lot more to the human element than you might think. In...
Captivate 2017 Courses Now Available in Customizable Courseware
We’ve been growing our Customizable Courseware Safety library! Bigger is better, amirite?! Each of these courses includes eLearning Course Materials and Instructor Led Training Materials. In addition, each course is both SCORM and xAPI compliant, built with a...
eLBX Online Day 23 – Using Characters and Scenarios in eLearning
A well-written scenario makes learning personal by inviting your learners to practice real-world challenges and apply what they’ve learned in a safe environment. In this webinar, eLearning Brothers Senior Product Manager Chris Willis joined us to talk about using...
Early Bird Pricing Available for eLBX Live
Back for its second year, eLBX Live will feature more sessions. The eLearning Brothers announced the return of their popular user conference extravaganza, eLBX Live, coming this June 10 in Salt Lake City. eLBX Live is co-located with Learning DevCamp. Early bird...
eLBX Online Day 22 – How and When to Use eLearning Assets
With millions of eLearning assets to choose from, getting started with the eLearning Brothers Library can be a bit overwhelming. Today, Andrew Vass discussed best practices that can help you more efficiently find the assets you’re looking for, edit them to fit your...
Come See Us at Learning Solutions!
Our very own Marty Rosenheck, Director, Talent Development Consulting is presenting this week at Learning Solutions 2019 in Orlando, Florida. His session is called "Case Study: Designing an Integrated Learning Strategy" and you can catch him Wednesday afternoon from...
eLBX Online Day 21 – What Can the eLearning Brothers Asset Library Do for You?
In today's webinar, Clara Cummings, Manager of Customer Success and Raul Lazo, Senior Account Executive joined us to reveal 3 different ways the libraries can help you become an eLearning Rockstar. Whether you’re a beginner developer or an experienced ID, the...
eLBX Online Day 20 – The Benefits of Mobile Learning
In this webinar, instructional designer Brandie Jenkins challenged us to look deeper at creative instructional design strategies for immersing learners in engaging and effective mobile learning experiences. To begin, Brandie polled attendees on what they thought...
eLBX Online Day 19 – Mobile Development in Lectora
In a mobile-friendly world, eLearning development is becoming increasingly complicated. How can you know what your course will look like on a phone, tablet, and desktop, and how do you ensure your learners have an effective learning experience on every platform? The...
eLBX Online Day 18 – Mobile Development in Captivate
Adobe Captivate allows developers to create mobile learning courses for a multi-device world. eLearning Brothers developer Andrew Vass joined us today to demonstrate developing mobile learning in Captivate. Andrew talked about: Responsive development using Fluid...
Is Your Design Really “Responsive?”
One of the biggest points of confusion I’ve seen evolve in recent years is how people use the word “responsive” when speaking about device-independent eLearning. How can it be that people can interpret one word so differently? Over time, “responsive” has become the...
eLBX Online Day 17 – Mobile Development in Storyline
Storyline 3 makes it easy to create training for learners using tablets and smartphones. In this webinar, Andrew Vass covered best practices for developing and publishing mobile-friendly training in Articulate Storyline 3 using the all-new responsive player. Andrew...
eLBX Online Day 16 – Evolution of Mobile Learning
Mobile technology plays a large role in how people receive information today. In today's eLBX Online webinar, John Blackmon, Chief Technology Officer at Trivantis, talked about the roots of mobile learning, how it started, and where it is going in the future. He...
eLBX Online Day 15 – The ROI of Gamification
Today we were joined by the amazing Stephen Baer, Head of Creative at The Game Agency to talk about the return on investment (ROI) of gamification. Stephen is also a gaming columnist for Forbes and previously worked at Atari. He's pretty much a gamification expert!...
eLBX Online Day 14 – Building an Advanced Game in Storyline
When I was first planning this webinar, I was going to get into the industry thinking around games, best practices, etc. About half and half discussion and practice—but honestly, having seen the great presentations we’ve had so far this week, I decided to let you...
Getting Everyone on Board With Gamification
We had a great webinar earlier this week with Misty Harding, Instructional Designer extraordinaire. During that webinar Game-Based Design, we had lots of questions that we ran out of time for. Misty kindly answered a few afterward for us. You can check out her...
10 eLearning Game Ideas for Instructional Designers
As part of eLBX Online Gamification week, let's take a look at this article from instructional designer Misty Harding on simple game ideas anyone can incorporate into their eLearning development! Instructional Designers have the ability to make awesome eLearning...
Building a 508-Compliant Game—Is It Possible?
Gamification is great, but is it accessible? That's a question we often receive from webinar attendees. So, our instructional designer, Misty Harding, answered a few questions for us on this very topic that came up during her Game-Based Design webinar yesterday....
eLBX Online Day 13 – Best Practices in Gamification
Gamification can take many forms, but following some key best practices can help you ensure success no matter what sort of game you’re developing! In this session, Jeff Batt, Learning Dojo Founder walked attendees through the basics of building gamification into...
eLBX Online Day 12 – Game-Based Design
What’s the difference between games, gamification, and quizzes? (Especially things people call games that are really just glorified quizzes!) Furthermore, how can they be used to build engagement and increase the transfer of learning? Today we hosted Misty...
eLBX Online Day 11 – Why Gamify Your Learning
Are you looking to engage your learners and encourage them to embrace your training material on a deeper level? Do you want them to lean in until they know your learning content as well as you do? If so, game-based is the answer. Today's webinar showcased best...
eLBX Online Day 10 – Business Benefits of Using an LRS
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Rob Chadwick, Co-Founder of Veracity Technology Consultants for eLBX Online. He started with a brief overview of xAPI—what it is and where it came from. As you may know, xAPI was created to address some of the issues of SCORM,...
Your xAPI Questions Answered
This week we entered the fantastic world of xAPI. We had guest webinars from Mike Hruska of Problem Solutions and Rob Chadwick, Co-Founder of Veracity Technology Consultants. In addition, our very own eLearning Brothers developer Bill Milstid gave 3 awesome...
eLBX Online Day 9 – xAPI in Action – Lectora Edition
Bill Milstid returned today to talk about xAPI and Lectora, rounding out our series of xAPI in Action webinars. We previously covered Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline. In Bill's opinion, Lectora offers the most out-of-the-box capability for xAPI of the big...
Behind the Scenes at eLBX Online
What does it take to make eLBX Online happen? 30 webinars within a 6 week period with guests from around the globe (and the office) requires coordination, communication, planning, and a quality recording booth. I chatted with our video specialist Andrew Townsend to...
Webinar: Get Rockstar Reporting with xAPI Templates from eLearning Brothers!
Editor's note: Originally posted September 21, 2018. Our Senior Developer, Bill Milstid, walked webinar attendees through a brief explanation of xAPI and then showed how we have integrated xAPI statements into our new Style templates—now known as Course Starters! What...
eLBX Online Day 8 – xAPI in Action – Captivate Edition
The amazing Bill Milstid returned today to talk about xAPI and Captivate. This was very similar to yesterday's webinar on Storyline and xAPI, and we'll be doing a Lectora one tomorrow. If you're just getting started with xAPI, here are a few things to keep in mind....
eLBX Online Day 7 – xAPI in Action – Storyline Edition
Today we dug into using xAPI with Articulate Storyline and it was eye-opening! eLearning Brothers developer Bill Milstid joined us to share his wisdom. Just a few things to know about xAPI before we get started. Tin Can = the Experience API = xAPI Yup, they're all the...
eLBX Online Day 6 – What is xAPI and Why Should You Care?
We kicked off xAPI week with a visit from our friend Mike Hruska of Problem Solutions. He joined us—from his hotel room in Bangkok at 1 am his time, no less!—to explore the business value behind learning ecosystems. While Mike did briefly cover the differences between...
How xAPI Benefits the Learner
xAPI has been a buzzword among eLearning professionals for a while, and rightly so. It’s very exciting to know that you can see exactly who looked at what page in your eLearning and for how long they looked at it. Seeing the results come in that say 200 people...
eLBX Online Day 5 – Boost Your Training ROI with Course Starters
eLearning Course Starters, Games, Customizable Courseware … when budgets are tight, how do you convince business leaders to fund all the eLearning goodies on your wish list? To make a compelling case, business-savvy training professionals use ROI–Return On...
eLBX Online Day 4 – Turning It Up: Taking Course Starters to the Next Level
With eLearning Brothers course starters, the sky is the limit. In this eLBX Online webinar, Andrew Vass walked attendees through how the templates found in course starters can be modified to take courses built in Articulate Storyline 3 to the next level and how you...
HCD Meets ID: Part 2- Developing Learner Empathy
As I discussed in my last post, Human Centered Design (HCD) provides us with a valuable process to assist us in empathizing with our learners so we can better meet their needs. For this post, I’d like to focus on the core of how to achieve this—developing empathy for...
eLBX Online Day 3 – Getting Started: Creating Training with Course Starters
Time is the most valuable resource when building online training. Why waste it creating a course from scratch when you can get a head start with a course starter? In this eLBX Online webinar, developer Andrew Vass demonstrated the time-saving elements of eLearning...
Design Thinking: Your Questions Answered
We had a great first eLBX Online session, Design Thinking Meets Instructional Design, on Monday with Chris Willis, Senior Product Manager – Customizable Courseware. Attendees asked tons of great questions and we tried to answer as many as we could during the webinar....
eLBX Online Day 2 – Streamline Your Storyboards
Authoring an eLearning storyboard can be fun and exciting—that is until deadline pressure threatens to drown out all your creative energy! We covered tons of great stuff in today's eLBX Online session, Streamline Your Storyboards. eLearning Brothers resident usability...
HCD Meets ID: Part 1 – What is HCD?
Have you ever experienced a really bad teacher? My worst teacher, let’s call him Dr. Smith, was a professor who failed our entire class based on a poorly written exam question. What could possibly compel an instructor to set up an entire class to fail? What happened...
eLBX Online Day 1: Design Thinking Meets Instructional Design
Today we kicked off eLBX Online with an info-packed session, Design Thinking Meets Instructional Design, with Chris Willis, Senior Product Manager - Customizable Courseware. Chris covered these main points: How Design Thinking aligns with Instructional Design The...
Decoding Interactivity Levels
In this week's webinar, Award-Winning Projects – It’s All in the Design!, Richard Vass, Director of Custom Solutions & Strategy shared some past projects our custom team has created and gave attendees a look behind the scenes at some of the processes and strategies we...
Are You Ready for the Biggest FREE Online Conference Event Ever?
This is big, ladies and gentlemen. I know we say that a lot. We said it about DevLearn 2018. We said it about eLBX 2018. And those were big. And we'll probably say it about the 2019 iterations of both those conferences. But this... This is big. We are about to embark...
Webinar: Award-Winning Projects – It’s All in the Design!
Feast your eyes on deeply immersive and visually explosive ELB custom eLearning projects that have won recognition through industry awards. During this webinar recording, you'll get to understand the key design elements that make for award-winning solutions. Richard...
A Tip-Top Two Days at Learning Technologies UK
Can you believe that Learning Technologies UK has been around for 20 years? And this conference is not slowing down! Learning Technologies UK 2019 featured: 30+ conference sessions 70+ leading speakers and facilitators 700+ attendees The opening keynote, Can we...