How We Do In-house Video Interviews (Equipment-wise)
We occasionally create videos for our eLearning courses created by our Custom team. We also create videos that can be found on our Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin pages. Many times these videos are nothing more than talking heads. A talking head shot can be extremely...
The Perfect eLearning Template for Back to School Season
It's that time of year. You've either been dreading it, or counting down to it. It's back to school for teachers, students, and school staff. Whichever camp you're in, we have an eLearning template that will get you in the mood for learning—or teaching. It's called...
What People Are Saying About Customizable Courseware
In May of 2017, we launched a product that changed the eLearning industry—Customizable Courseware. Now, no one has made that day a global holiday in recognition—yet—but our customers have let us know how much they love Customizable Courseware. And because we got into...
We’re on the List (of Top eLearning Blogs!)
We have some fun news to share with you today! We're feeling a lot like rockstars because our blog was recognized on a few different lists! And no, we're not talking about Santa's naughty list. We try to serve up content for everyone, from Articulate Storyline...
Webinar: Time Saving Tips in Lectora Online
eLearning Brothers recently hosted Jennie Valley, Trivantis Community Manager for a great webinar, during which Jennie shared her favorite ways to save time with Lectora Online. When deadlines loom, these are the tricks you want in your back pocket. First, Jennie...
Embracing A Principle-Based Model of Instructional Design
As an instructional designer, I’ve often wondered why so many organizations place such a heavy emphasis on adhering to instructional design processes such as ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation) or SAM (Successive Approximation Model), when the...
Blend Outside of the Box – Part 1
Most people think of blended learning as mixing up eLearning with Instructor-Led Classroom Training (ILT)—and they’re not wrong. That’s why eLearning Brothers Customizable Courseware comes ready to mix and match in both formats. However, blending up learning...
Put These Webinars On Your Calendar
Our webinar series is all about bringing you helpful eLearning development information—so you can do your job easier and faster. We've had some really great webinars in the past, covering everything from instructional design to graphics to writing tips and career...
How to Party Like an (eLearning) Rockstar: eLB Summer Party Edition
Look, I don’t want to tell you how to rock, but since you asked—for the purpose of this blog, let’s assume that you did indeed ask—here are a few pointers as tried and tested by your eLB friends. Set the Scene First, if you’re planning on partying like a...
2018’s 10 Most Popular PowerPoint Assets (So Far)
Our PowerPoint templates are loved far and wide. It’s true. They are some of the most downloaded templates in our library! In fact, just in 2018 we’ve already had 14,000 downloads from our PowerPoint library alone. So today I want to take a look at the ones that have...
Career Advice From an Instructional Designer
We recently hosted Dr. Scott Baird, founder of Griffin Hill, for a great webinar called Instructional Designers, Protect Your Position – Advice From Dr. Baird. The webinar was packed with helpful career advice and suggestions, and sparked a ton of discussion on...
Webinar: Instructional Designers – Steal from HCD to Engage your Learners
Building engaging Learning experiences starts with knowing who you are building them for. But what do you really know about your target learning audience? In last week's webinar Josh Bleggi, our Learning Designer, borrowed three tools from the world of Human Centered...
This Fire Safety Course is Hot
In the United States… A fire department responds to a fire EVERY 24 SECONDS One structure fire is reported EVERY 66 SECONDS One civilian fire injury occurs EVERY 34 MINUTES One civilian fire death occurs EVERY 2 HOURS AND 35 MINUTES Remember good ol’ Smokey Bear...
Webinar: Welcome to Your eLearning Brothers Account
Last week. we had our Customer Success Manager Clara Cummings in a webinar discussing how to get the most out of your eLearning Brothers account. Whether you are brand new to eLearning Brothers templates and assets or a seasoned veteran, learning how to quickly...
Word on the Street: A Time and a Place for eLearning
In a fast-paced world that constantly demands new and better things to make our lives easier and more efficient, we have found ourselves in the heart of an interesting conundrum. When it comes to learning—both in a classroom and at a desk—is new technology (or even...
Slips, Trips, and Falls: Safety Training Is Here to Catch You
5,190 workers were killed on the job in 2016. That averages out to more than 99 a week or more than 14 deaths every day. Those are sobering statistics. If you want to keep your workers safe, you need to educate them on safety guidelines. “Isn’t that OSHA’s job?” 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...
We’ve Got Your Back: Template Styles Support Videos
Not sure how to use our new Template Styles? Each Template Style is like a little family of layouts, interactions, quizzes, and more all designed to work together. But all the choices might seem overwhelming at first. We want to help you make the most of these Styles...
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...
Mid-Year Report: 2018 eLearning Trends
We’re just a bit over halfway through 2018. Man, did time fly. So much has happened already in 2018: we earned a learning technology award, attended some awesome conferences like ATD ICE and SHRM, hosted our own conference eLBX, released Safety Training Customizable...
Webinar: Instructional Designers, Protect Your Position – Advice From Dr. Baird
We were so happy to host Dr. Scott Baird, founder of Griffin Hill in a webinar this week discussing how you as instructional designers can make your positions "unassailable." With experience in instructional design, Dr. Baird brings a unique perspective to the...
Learning and the Brain
There’s a new movement called Organizational Psychology. It’s about using psychology to make sure you hire the right people, develop the people you have, and understand employee engagement. Sounds a lot like what L&D departments do, right? That’s the point Clark Quinn...
Destroy Distractions With These Easy Camera Tricks
Distractions in videos come in many ways. In the theater, directors will use clutter on the screen to distract the viewer, or to help convey chaos. Leaving lots of people or things or lights or miscellaneous movement in the frame can help a movie the same way a...
Webinar: Wait… You Made That in PowerPoint??
Last week we brought Stacey Wilhelmsen, Senior Graphic Designer, and Thomas Reyes-Cairo, Product Production Manager, over from our template development team in a webinar discussing some slick and exciting features in PowerPoint. From using 3D assets to give a more...
Friday Finds: Productivity Hacks
I first stumbled upon this service several years, and I really think it hasn't gotten the glory it deserves. To be fair, it's not exclusively a business tool or an eLearning tool. But there's so much you can use it for! What am I talking about? If This Then That...
From the Archives: Our Top 5 Webinars
We were feeling that #ThrowbackThursday vibe today, so we decided to look back at our most popular eLearning webinars from 2017 and 2018 so far. Want to guess which webinars were the most popular? No? Okay, that's fine. We were going to tell you anyway. *drumroll* In...
eLearning Blogs (Other Than Us) You Should Read
We try not to be greedy here at eLearning Brothers. We want you to read our eLearning blog, of course, and we work hard to serve up useful content for you. But we understand if you want a second perspective now and then. So we wanted to share a few other eLearning...
Be Stylish With These New Captivate Templates
Crunched for time? It happens! Using these new Captivate Style Templates, you can still produce a great eLearning course even when you're under a tight deadline. eLearning Brothers Templates include everything you need to quickly create a course—knowledge checks,...
To Quiz or Not to Quiz…That Is the Question
How do you incorporate quizzes into your eLearning? Do you believe in the “quiz early, quiz often” strategy, or do you wait until the end of the course? Or do you live on the edge and say “who needs those darn quizzes anyway?” Some people argue that delivering...
This Lectora Template Style Is Totally Rad
It's time to have some fun! The 80s Neon Style is the newest one of our Template Styles to hit the Lectora Template Library. I personally love this Lectora Template Style—the colors, the fun fonts, it's just all totally rad. 80s Neon is definitely where it's at if you...
A Q&A with the Queen of Customizable Courseware
Today I sat down with Chris Willis, Senior Product Manager for Customizable Courseware, and got the scoop on this growing catalog of fully built, fully customizable training courses. Chris lives and breathes Customizable Courseware and is a huge part of how quickly...
eLearning Brothers Office Upgrade!
We're moving up in the world! As our rockstar family has grown, things have gotten a little cramped in the eLearning Brothers office digs. Thus, we began the search for a bigger and better space. Luckily, we didn't have to look far. We found a great new space right...
A Refreshing New Storyline Style for Summer
Are you ready to beat the summer heat with a refreshing new Storyline Style template? We sure are. That's why we're loving the latest addition to our Summer 2018 Template Styles collection: Movemint. Don't you just want to dive into this Storyline Style? Pops of mint...
Word on the Street: AR/VR in Education
It seems that everywhere you go you're hearing about AR/VR in education. This includes using a cell phone or tablet to present a cool augmented reality as seen in Pokemon Go, or putting on a sort of headset like the Oculus Rift to give a full virtual experience. We...
Webinar: The Hero’s Journey: Elements in Learning Games
Today’s learners expect a lot from their learning games. Grabbing their attention and keeping it requires technology that features amazing graphics, feature functionality, badges, and all manner of techno-wizardry. In this webinar, Rich Vass and Dan Dellenbach...
The Twill Theme Will Make Your Camtasia Content Shine
Using video for eLearning is no new idea. But making nice looking videos for eLearning, that can be hard to come by. Luckily TechSmith’s Camtasia is here to help you quickly and easily make eLearning videos that look great! With the combination of behaviors and...
Looking for Business Ethics Training? Look No Further.
Some situations that push ethical boundaries are obvious—others less so. The definition of “ethics” varies dramatically among industries, and rules change when dealing with governmental agencies or international employees or customers. According to the Aveta Business...
5 Updated Storyline Games You Have to See
You asked for it, you got it! Many users have been passionately requesting updated Storyline games and we just can't say no to our rockstar family! Five of our most popular Storyline games now feature beautiful new graphics and are available in Storyline 3 and...
The Scoop on SHRM 18
eLearning Brothers just returned from the SHRM 2018 Annual Conference & Exposition, and boy are our arms tired! It was a week of non-stop handing out bro bands and other awesome swag. Man, I saw it coming and I just couldn’t stop myself. In all honesty, though, what a...
Webinar: Be a Video Whiz With Camtasia 18 and eLearning Brothers Templates
Camtasia 18 just came out, and eLearning Brothers has a plethora of templates for it! In this webinar, eLearning Brothers Video Evangelist Andrew Townsend demonstrated how you can rock with templates in Camtasia 18. Joining Andrew for the webinar was Clara Cummings,...
7 Practical Guidelines From Cognitive Science for eLearning
When I’ve attended eLearning conferences and workshops, one thing I’ve noticed is that instructional designers are always hungry for more research and knowledge on how people learn and what they can do to help them learn better. We actually know a lot about how people...
Camtasia 18: New Features You Need to Try
Big news—TechSmith has released a new version of Camtasia! This may come to a shock to you since the time between Camtasia 8 and Camtasia 9 was four years, with Camtasia 9 releasing in October of 2016. Here we are not even two years later and we have Camtasia 18. With...
Webinar: What You Missed at eLBX
Ah, eLBX. It's hard to put into words how much it meant to us to see everyone who turned out for our first-ever user conference. We made the bold claim that eLBX was going to inspire you to rock, but you also inspired us with your enthusiasm and passion. Let's rewind....
Webinar: Raising the Bar on Forklift Safety
In recognition of National Forklift Safety Day, we hosted a webinar with Chris Willis, Senior Product Manager, and Josh Bleggi, Learning Designer, all about our new Customizable Courseware Forklift Safety Training. eLearning Brothers Customizable Courseware bridges...
Our Favorite Moments From eLBX
Well kids, it happened! eLearning Brothers’ first go round at hosting a conference is now behind us, and you know what? It was everything we hoped it would be. The only problem now is the year-long wait for eLBX 2.0. You know that feeling you get right after your...
eLearning Brothers Wins Best of State in Education
We were recently honored to receive Best of State in Education by the Best of State Awards! The Best of State Awards were created to recognize outstanding individuals, organizations, and businesses in Utah. Their mission statement declares “By recognizing excellence...
eLBX Kicks Off Today! Follow Along On Social
The first ever eLearning Brothers User Conference Extravaganza—eLBX—kicks off today! If you're not there, be sure to follow #eLBX on social media. We'll be sharing photos and nuggets of wisdom all day. The eLBX schedule is packed with presentations by industry leaders...
eLBX Session Sneak Peek #8
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your last eLBX session sneak peek. Why? Because eLBX is NEXT MONDAY. Are you ready??? We are SO ready to see you in Salt Lake City and inspire you to rock all your future eLearning development projects. We're probably not going to be able...
Rockstars on the Road: Hear Marty Rosenheck Speak at These Events
There are some incredibly brilliant people working to improve learning and development for companies around the world. We're proud to have one of those people right here at eLearning Brothers. Marty Rosenheck recently joined our team as the director of talent...
eLBX Session Sneak Peek #7
In less than one week, we'll be descending on the University of Utah campus in all our orange-shirted glory and we are ready to ROCK eLBX and Learning DevCamp. We absolutely can't wait to see all of you there. Today's eLBX session sneak peek includes two of our...