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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...
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: Micro-Learning and the Learning Life Cycle
In today’s quick-consumption world, learners are demanding more and more just-in-time learning solutions that provide just the right content when and where they need it. But what's the best way to create and provide a good micro-learning resource? In this webinar...
eLearning Brothers Announces Free Virtual eLearning Event: eLBX Online
eLearning developers and instructional designers can tune in for 6 weeks of info-packed daily sessions American Fork, UT — Tuesday, February 12 — eLearning Brothers announced today that they will be hosting a 6-week virtual event called eLBX Online beginning at...
Learner Engagement Lessons We Can Learn From Super Bowl Ads
When you're an eLearning developer, you're often not JUST an eLearning developer. You're also a graphic designer, an instructional designer, a project manager, a writer, a teacher, and so on. And sometimes, you're called upon to be the marketer of your course as well....
LMS for Healthcare: 5 Essential LMS Features You Can’t Ignore
Today, we're bringing you a guest post from our friends at iSpring Solutions! To keep pace with the changes in the healthcare sector, medical practitioners must constantly update their professional knowledge and skills. In an environment where schedules are busy and...
Webinar: How to Get the Best Free eLearning Assets
Picture this: You're an eLearning developer—this won't be hard to imagine, if you're reading this blog, you probably ARE an eLearning developer—and you need graphics. There's a big training program rollout coming up and you have tons of courses to build for it. You...
The eLearning Brothers YouTube Is Where It’s At
When you have a door bent out of shape in your house, you may immediately think to call a specialist. Or, if you’re anything like me, you’ll jump on the internet and see if it might be an easy fix. Do you find yourself doing the same with eLearning Development or...
Webinar: Accessibility and Usability… Where do they overlap in eLearning?
Accessible content and usable content are often viewed as separate, mutually exclusive outcomes that employ different design approaches, requirements, and principles. As such, organizations, corporations, and agencies that are required to comply with accessibility...
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...
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...
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,...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recoloring Complex Artwork in Illustrator
Say you find an awesomely-realistic vector file from a stock site (like the rose illustration below), but it’s not the color you’re looking for and you’d like to recolor it. Depending on how the file was created, this can be an extremely daunting task, especially if...
Create Beautiful Custom Dropdown Menus With jQuery—Storyline Edition
I am sure one day soon Articulate will push an update that empowers us with dropdown (select) menus. But in the meantime, if you are like me you have probably avoided building them—it takes so many layers and triggers. But sometimes it really just makes sense to use a...
Master the Captivate Universe With Master Slides
In a webinar about Captivate 2017 that I recently presented, there were a lot of questions that came in about Master Slides and how to use them. I addressed most of those at a high level in the webinar recap that we published on our blog, but I wanted to go a bit more...
24 New Lectora Online Support Videos You Should Watch
Support.eLearningBrothers.com is your source for tutorials and how-to videos related to all your favorite eLearning authoring tools. When you need a little help getting to the next step in your eLearning development, come visit us! We've got your back. We just added...
Webinar: Get Dialed In To PowerPoint
In a webinar earlier this week Nic Brown, our Director of Product & Design, walked us through the creation of a slick looking dial in PowerPoint. This kind of a dial can be used in all kinds of PowerPoint applications such as displaying speed, volume, and tension. As...
Deck the Halls with Free Holiday Cutout Characters
We always go the extra mile for you here at eLearning Brothers. If that means risking life and limb to get a photo of a cat in a Christmas sweater for your holiday cutout character needs…we’ll do it! In fact, we put TWO cats in holiday outfits—that’s how much we love...
A Gift For Our Favorite Rockstars
Are you ready for the holidays? Here at eLearning Brothers, we’re kicking off the holiday season with a special gift for you! In the spirit of giving we want to say thank you to all members of eLearning Brothers by giving you a: Call in for a FREE Customizable...
Rockin’ Responsive Design Strategies
Are you ready to rock your responsive design? John Blackmon, Trivantis CTO joined us at our DevLearn 2017 eLearning Rockstars Stage this October and shared his responsive design knowledge. Blackmon taught attendees how to take pre-existing content and allow it to be...
Webinar Recap: Crank Your Course Volume to 11 With Our Storyline Templates
Here at eLearning Brothers we're all about helping you become an eLearning Rockstar, providing templates and resources that work with all your favorite authoring tools, like Articulate Storyline. Put Storyline together with our templates and you can really crank your...
Getting Started with eLB Templates in PowerPoint
There is a heavy stigma associated with templates and even with PowerPoint: They are beginner tools that don’t permit advanced users to create awesomeness. While using templates (especially from eLearning Brothers) and PowerPoint can be fast and easy, it doesn’t...
Responsive Design Tips for eLearning Courses
Nowadays the world seems to be all a-clamor over the idea of “responsive design” for eLearning. Yet, there still is a lot of confusion over what it is and how to implement it. Recently, I was privileged to lead a couple of sessions on that very topic at the eLearning...
Webinar: Get Started in Lectora Templates with eLearning Brothers
In this recording of our recent webinar Jennifer Valley of Trivantis walks through how to get your project looking great using eLearning Brother's Lectora templates. Some of the things she demonstrates include: How to access, download, and use eLearning Brothers...
New Cutout People For Your PowerPoint Presentations
If you have been following along with our blog, you will have noticed that we have been updating our Cutout People Library each month. And for all those who haven’t been following along, we have added over 12,800 cutout people this year alone! Our Cutout People...
eLearning Brothers Revamps the Free eLearning Library
We all love free stuff, especially when it can be put to good use! eLearning Brothers has always given and will continue to give out free assets that are beneficial to eLearning developers and presenters alike. Over the past few days, we at eLearning Brothers have...
Create Your Own Periodic Table and Win eLearning Brothers Swag
You may have recently seen our Periodic Table of Instructional Design—a helpful infographic created to highlight the important ideas behind eLearning design and development. But did you know that we created three interactive versions of it for Adobe Captivate,...
Win Swag with Our New Free Cutout People
It’s easy for us to say that one of our favorite products we offer is the Cutout People Library. With over 600 different series of cutouts totaling over 55,000 images (with more getting added every month), it’s no wonder that people love the selection they find!...
Top 25 eLearning Blog Posts For 2016
By nature, people want to know the top or best of whatever it is they might be interested in. At some point, we should probably create a blog post that ranks our top 10 posts that have "Top 10" in the title, but for now, you'll have to settle for our top 25 eLearning...
Webinar: Customizing An eLearning Trivia Game for Adobe Captivate
Here at eLearning Brothers we get a lot of questions about how to customize our templates to meet branding and organizational needs. This past Thursday I conducted a webinar in which I took one of our most popular eLearning trivia game and customized it according to a...
A Quick Dive Into Camtasia 9 and eLearning Brothers Camtasia Templates
The long wait is over, and the New Camtasia 9 was released today! In addition to the 8 things we learned about it when they announced the new editing software, we are excited about a few additional things. First of all, all of the Camtasia 8 templates made by...
Missing Captivate Quiz Buttons? We Can Fix It
In their most recent update to Captivate 9.0.2, Adobe made many fantastic changes. They sped up the load and publish time for Captivate projects, they amped up the Assets tool and they provided a link to the new Captivate community. However, one change they made...
5 Storyboard Template Tricks that Will Improve Your Course Development
A big part of life is learning to grow and improve as we go. As eLearning developers, we want to grow and improve in our eLearning development process. Learning to effectively storyboard can be a great help in developing well-thought-out eLearning. We here at...
Featured eBook: 5 eLearning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Our friends over at Trivantis have put together a new eBook based on a webinar of eLearning expert, Joe Ganci. The book, at a brisk 23 pages, is a brief yet knowledge-dense read with helpful tips and provocative layouts. The book, titled "5 eLearning Mistakes and How...
Getting Started with Assets in Captivate 9.0.2
If you use Captivate 9, you may have noticed that Adobe pushed out a new update (9.0.2) last week. This update contains several improvements to the functionality and usability of Captivate 9. For a complete breakdown of these improvements, you can click here. One of...
3 Free International Cutout People
We've been making efforts lately to diversify the selection in our Cutout People Library. To that effect, last month we announced our addition of more than 20,000 new cutouts to the library. These new characters come from three different photo shoots in China,...
Free Assets to Improve Your eLearning
In early February, the eLearning community was privileged to hear from Dr. Allen Partridge, a senior eLearning evangelist for Adobe, through a webinar titled "Integrating free games, graphics, interactions to make your eLearning more engaging". In it, Dr. Partridge...
Freebie Friday: 3 Stock Video Templates
When it comes to video eLearning, it is a cardinal sin to not take advantage of the medium. That's not to say you treat it like a cheap 3D movie and throw objects toward the camera just because you can. But they call them "motion" pictures for a reason: there's an...
Freebie Friday: A Corporate PowerPoint Course Starter
As the relentless march of time continues to advance, the workforce continuously gains new blood, edging out the retirees with every passing year. When you get to a certain age, an interesting thing happens: your newest coworkers start to look younger and younger. The...
Freebie Friday: The Sweet Sound of Free Stock Assets
Anyone who has ever edited audio knows that quality sound effects are an essential part of the process. Lucky for them, we have an expansive library full of sounds that will add a little something to your eLearning course. This week, we're adding four handy stock...
Freebie Friday: 3 Awesome Stock Assets
Not everyone has a million-dollar budget when it comes to eLearning, or any other multimedia endeavor for that matter. It's sad but true that sometimes our vision surpasses our abilities. That's why stock assets are so important. They add a touch of professionalism to...
Freebie Black Friday: Holiday eLearning Cutout People
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Now it's time to rush the stores for all of your holiday needs and wants, right? Well, if you're opposed to the thought of potentially being trampled just to get a hold of some holiday cheer, we have a solution we hope...
Freebie Friday: Free PowerPoint Tear Sheet Graphic
Part of being a good citizen of the learning community is citing your sources. You want to wield a strong ethos when making an argument, but it can't just be your word alone. When you point to where you got your information, it lets people know that you're not just...