Continue the Conversation: eLearning Open Mic – Mixing it Up With Blended Learning
Blended learning gives learners the best of both worlds—if you do it well. We hosted a panel of eLearning professionals for an insightful talk about all things blended learning. Thanks to our panelists—Chris Willis, Jean Marrapodi, and Toby Newman—and all the great...
Webinar: Analyze Your Learners With Rapid Game Development
This blog post is the answer to your prayers if you've been looking for: Quick and easy game development for your training program Better data and insights into what concepts your learners are struggling with A little dash of fun for your eLearning content In this...
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? Time to Edit This Template Style!
In the video below, we're going to take a look at the basic structure of our Timeline Dates Storyline template, and how to make simple edits like changing the text in the file. This Timeline Dates template is available in all of our new Template Styles. We have tons...
eLearning Rockstars Stage – What You Can Build Today in VR
John Blackmon, Trivantis CTO, joined us on the eLearning Rockstars Stage at DevLearn 2018 to talk about one of the hottest new things in learning: virtual reality (VR) training. Trivantis recently released a new tool, CenarioVR, which makes it easy for developers to...
Using Concise Words In eLearning Course Design: Reapplying Marketing “Copy” Tips
There is nothing worse than having to read a wordy advertising campaign. Marketers know that the best way to capture their audience and get points across is through concise and meaningful text. We should, for better eLearning course design, grasp this concept and...
Give the Gift of mLearning This Holiday
It’s the most wonderful busiest time of the year! From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, it seems like everyone is all "go, go, go!" From trying to hit all the holiday parties to wrapping up year-end projects and budgets to planning for next year, there’s tons to do and...
Webinar: How to Build Awesomeness With Your Client & Team
Last week, we welcomed Alex Richards, eLearning Brothers Senior Project Manager, into the webinar studio for an inspiring look at how to build strong relationships with clients and team members. A close working relationship creates strong foundations for successful...
Word on the Street: Win Fully-Loaded eLearning iPads!
There's been a lot of hubbub in the eLearning Brothers office and around the internet as our holidays have been turned orange this year. You may have heard already, but we think you should know—the word on the street is true: We're giving away free, fully-loaded...
eLearning Brothers Spreads Holiday Cheer With eLearning iPads
100% of eLearning Professionals Surveyed Agreed a Free iPad Would Generate Holiday Cheer AMERICAN FORK, UTAH (PRWEB) - NOVEMBER 29, 2018 As part of the ongoing mission to revolutionize the eLearning industry and inspire awesomeness, eLearning Brothers is giving away...
eLearning Rockstars Stage – Making 508 Accessible to Developers
Chris Willis, eLearning Brothers Senior Product Manager, Customizable Courseware, presented two eLearning Rockstars Learning Stage sessions at DevLearn. Today we're exploring her session on 508 and accessibility. Be sure to check out her session on blended learning...
5 Digital Games to Liven Up Your Holidays
As we near the end of the year you may be finding yourself spending more time with close friends and family in your off-hours. Regardless of how this makes you feel, we are excited to share some games that you can play with them that will surely lighten the mood. Now,...
Continue the Conversation: eLearning Open Mic: Generational Learning
7 panelists joined us for one of our most controversial eLearning Open Mic topics yet—teaching to different generations. We hear so often that “Baby Boomers like this” and “Millennials are killing this” and are told that each generation has different learning styles...
Click, Click, Click to Reveal This Tab Tutorial
As a user, I think click to reveal interactions are very satisfying. One click and "Bam! Info pops up!" But I'm not sure I would want to be the one who has to develop them... That's why I love the eLearning Brothers Template Library. Every interaction or layout that...
Extra! Extra! More Q&A On the Periodic Table of Instructional Design
Our recent webinar series, Parts 1 and 2 of the Periodic Table of Instructional Design: Elements to Amp Up Your eLearning, was incredibly popular. Each webinar generated tons of discussion between our instructional designer Jenn Fairbanks and the attendees. In fact,...
A Rockstar Holiday Gift Guide for eLearning Professionals
Some of the biggest shopping days of the year are approaching. Are you ready??? We've put together an eLearning and training focused gift guide to help you check some holiday shopping off your list. If you're racking your brain trying to figure out what to buy your...
Blend Outside of the Box – Part 2
In Blend Outside of the Box Part 1, I suggested blending recorded webinars or virtual classroom sessions along with printable worksheets into your learning mix. Let’s take a look at some other outside of the box ideas you can mix and match to create blended...
Webinar: Professional Development Your Way
In this webinar, Account Executive Ryan Lee showed attendees how they can use Customizable Courseware to create the ultimate professional development training program for their organizations. "Wait a minute," you might be thinking. "Professional development? I...
Ta Da! Select and Zoom Images in Captivate with JavaScript
I recently saw a post in the Adobe eLearning forums where a user was seeking help selecting specific images with JavaScript. User keelym35886708 posted this question: “Accessing Image by ID containing a specific word via an external JS file?” What they want to do...
Webinar: The Periodic Table of Instructional Design: Elements to Amp Up Your eLearning Part 2
The long-awaited Part 2 of the Periodic Table of Instructional Design webinar series is here! Two of our instructional designers, Jenn and Misty, presented the Periodic Table of Instructional Design at eLBX 2018 and it was an incredibly popular session. Because the...
eLearning Rockstars Stage – Flip Learning Like a Rockstar
eLearning Brothers Senior Product Manager Chris Willis took the stage to share a creative and flexible Flipped Classroom learning approach. In Flip Learning Like a Rockstar, Chris covered: Flipped Classroom methodologies & design strategies Easy, low cost tips to...
Writing EVEN Much More Better
Some of you may have attended my webinar this summer about how to improve our writing as instructional designers. I’d like to follow up on a few of the items I covered in that training session in this blog. The main point I’d like to emphasize is that as IDs, we...
Webinar: Genius Content Strategies for LMS Reporting
What did the online course say to the LMS? Some people may think that’s the first line of a joke, but for those of us who make, manage, and measure training content, we know how serious it really is. In this webinar recording, our friend Sam Rogers of Snap Synapse...
eLearning Rockstars Stage – Half the Work for Twice the Results
Andrew Scivally, eLearning Brothers co-founder and president, took the DevLearn eLearning Rockstars Learning Stage for the last stage presentation of the expo. He shared a little bit about the history of eLearning Brothers. At our core, we’re always asking ourselves...
5 Steps to Avoid Family Fights this Holiday Season
This year Cousin Tabitha will be back from University, and it will be the first year without Grandma Edna (God rest her soul). This means Thanksgiving dinner will have 80% less "when I was your age" stories, but 40% more overly enthusiastic social justice preaching....
Don’t Burn the Turkey! And More Fire Safety Tips Everyone Could Use
With holidays contributing heavily to the yearly injuries and fatalities in the United States, it’s even more important to be prepared with solid safety training. As the number of flammable materials found inside homes increases across the country, we felt it was...
Preview Our Newest Captivate Template Style
Our template designers never stop working—except to play foosball, that is. Because of their hard work, we're constantly adding new templates to our Adobe Captivate Template Library. You know what that means, right? You can develop awesome eLearning courses in...
Boom! We Rocked DevLearn DemoFest!
We've talked a ton about how awesome DevLearn was this year, but there's one thing we haven't gotten a chance to really share. At DemoFest, we were so honored to stand alongside our longtime client Janiece Ziegler of Ally Financial and receive the award for Best Sales...
eLearning Rockstars Stage – Using Games to Make Your Training More Effective
Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University and Stephen Baer, Managing Partner of The Game Agency, joined forces to present an engaging, interactive session at this year’s...
Reading Rainbow: eLearning Books & Articles to Peruse
At DevLearn this year, I was reminded of how many great eLearning books are out there, just waiting to be cracked open. So many volumes of knowledge are waiting to be absorbed, highlighted, bookmarked, and read over and over. I think with the wealth of online...
Webinar: Better Safe Than Sorry – Customizable Safety Training That Saves You Time and Money
In this week's webinar, Account Executive Raul Lazo showed off our newest addition to our Customizable Courseware library: Safety Training courses. He took attendees through some of the benefits of using Customizable Courseware, as well as different features included....
508 Resources Guide
At this year’s DevLearn, our very own Chris Willis presented an eLearning Rockstars Learning Stage session called Making 508 Accessible to Developers. Accessibility and 508-compliance are hot topics in the eLearning world and Chris is both knowledgeable and...
It’s a Match! Matching Drag & Drop Tutorial
Drag and drop interactions are an eLearning staple. I love that there are so many different ways to use a drag and drop—matching, sorting, labeling items, etc. Plus, as a learner, there is something so satisfying about dragging an answer into the correct spot! In this...
Live From DevLearn – Rockstar Shenanigans
We are at DevLearn right now and it is crazy. The energy and passion here never fail to amaze us. As usual, we went big. We have two booths AND a learning stage chock full of inspiring, informative sessions covering a wide spectrum of eLearning topics. Plus, we're...
eLearning Brothers Showcases New Products With Two Booths at DevLearn
New Products, Customizable Courseware and TREK Learning Experience Manager Provide Time-Saving Benefits for Learning and Development Departments AMERICAN FORK, UTAH (PRWEB) OCTOBER 23, 2018 eLearning Brothers announced today that they will be exhibiting new products...
Don’t Scroll Past This Scrolling Text Template Tutorial
When I first saw we had a template named "Scrolling Text," I thought "Oh sweet, like the Star Wars intro text!" Turns out, the template is not quite like the Star Wars intro text, but it is probably more useful for an eLearning course than scrolling yellow text over...
eLBX Presents – Dr. Michael Allen
Founder and CEO of Allen Interactions, Dr. Michael Allen is a pioneer of the eLearning industry. He is an expert in learning research, instructional design, and more. He's authored 8 top-selling books and won numerous awards. We were so happy to have him join us at...
Continue the Conversation: Being Flexible With ADDIE & Agile Development Open Mic
They say there’s a time and a place for most things, and we’re inclined to think the same about ADDIE and Agile in Learning and Development. Today we had an eLearning Open Mic to talk about how eLearning professionals today are utilizing ADDIE (Analyze, Design,...
The Safety Course You Need This Fall
Fall is here and with it comes cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, and...back pain?! It's true. Fall, the favorite season of many an Instagram influencer and candy-loving child, is fraught with back-breaking activities like raking leaves, picking pumpkins, and...
Can’t Miss DevLearn 2018 Sessions
Huge announcement, everyone. Are you sitting down? DEVLEARN IS NEXT WEEK! We're so excited. We did something kind of crazy and went ahead and reserved a second booth on the expo floor. For ourselves, yes. I'll explain, don't worry. But first, I wanted to share some...
UV50 Fastest-Growing Companies—Oh, Hey, That’s Us!
If there's one thing we hope you've learned about us by now, it's that we have big dreams for what eLearning can be—inspiring, immersive, visually explosive, trackable... To achieve all our big dreams, we've been getting bigger and selling more too. So much bigger we...
Webinar: The Periodic Table of Instructional Design: Elements to Amp Up Your eLearning (Part 1)
The Periodic Table of Elements gives scientific scholars a way to contextualize and organize the many elements they work with. Inspired by that, we created a Periodic Table of Instructional Design. Two of our instructional designers, Jenn and Misty, presented the...
eLBX Presents – Sean Bott
Sean Bott is a comedy mentalist. If you're not quite sure what the means, don't worry, I didn't know either. When he got on stage at eLBX 2018, I wasn't sure what to expect. What followed was a hilarious presentation that challenged preconceived notions and wowed the...
What’s the Deal With Customizable Courseware at DevLearn?
We are gearing up for DevLearn and we're so excited! Seriously the packing is getting intense. We have boxes everywhere and our Amazon orders are out of control. The proof is in this picture below. We had to censor the office occupant because he was embarrassed by how...
Continue the Conversation: Camtasia 9 vs Camtasia 18 Open Mic
We had a great conversation today for our first eLearning Open Mic! Tons of eLearning professionals gathered to chat, praise, and yes, occasionally vent, about Camtasia. At eLearning Brothers, we've been longtime users of Camtasia, but we were curious to see what...
Ask the Quizmaster – How to Edit a Quiz Template
Adding a quiz into your next eLearning project is a great way to check on knowledge retention or help your learners practice what they just learned. Our quiz templates make it quick and easy to add a quiz into your course. Today, we're going to take a brief look at...
Webinar: Jazz Up Your Next PowerPoint With These New Styles
Our Director of Product and Design Nic Brown joined us yesterday to show off our newest and most exciting PowerPoint Styles! I know, "exciting" isn't always the word that comes to mind when you think of PowerPoint, but with our template and graphics libraries, you...
eLBX Presents – eLearning Brothers Improv
Here on the blog, we're sharing videos of presentations from the first-ever eLBX, this past June. Today we have a real treat for you: eLearning improv! Curtis Morley introduced this next session by describing it as "something you have never seen before" and "the true...
5 Things You Must Know for eLearning Brothers Success
Today we’re going to be looking at five things to know for the most success with your eLearning Brothers account. The Favorites tab Downloads tab Team and Member Libraries A quick tip for searching through libraries Utilizing our eLearning Brothers Knowledge Base ...
You’ve Got Mail! How to Edit Our Email Scenario Template
Looking for a better way to deliver information in an eLearning course that isn't just a boring text block? Want it to be a little bit interactive? Check out the email scenario templates in our newest Template Styles. Everything is built for you, just change the text...
Webinar: How to Make On-the-Job Learning Practical With TREK
More and more organizations are realizing the need for a comprehensive training approach that includes traditional eLearning courses in addition to on-the-job learning experience and coaching by managers. This has often been a challenge to implement. Marty Rosenheck,...