Instructional Design Best Practices
Learn to Make A Deal with This New Soft Skills Training
Just recently, we launched a product that would revolutionize the eLearning and training industries. It was called Customizable Courseware. Like most off-the-shelf courses out there, Customizable Courseware contains an ILT course curriculum as well as a SCORM...
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Webinar: Elevating eLearning Design
Bullet points. Stale narration. “Click next” instruction. Long audio lectures. Yawns. We all know what boring eLearning courses feel like. We all hate them. The real question is, why do we keep producing them? The answer is that most of us haven’t seen better...
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The 4 Cs to Designing Meaningful Scenarios, Part 2: Consequences
The experience of cause and effect is a very powerful teacher, one our brain is already pre-wired to learn from. Experiencing consequences for our actions gives rise to emotion, which not only catches our attention, but also increases our ability to retain the...
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Creating Captivate Courses from Multiple Merged Microlearning Modules
E Pluribus Unum, the motto of the United States. We look at it practically every day as it is emblazoned across our currency, but do we actually know what it means? The literal translation of it is “Out of many, one”; or in other words, unifying many smaller parts...
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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...
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How to Teach Conflict Resolution Skills with Customizable Courseware
Conflict is a natural part of life. We're all human, and we all have our own style of doing things, so there's bound to be some friction when we interact. Accepting that conflict is going to happen to a certain extent allows us to get practical and focus on what...
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The 4 Cs to Designing Meaningful Scenarios, Part 1: Choices
At its core, a common scenario isn’t that difficult to craft: tell a story, ask the learner what they want to do about it, and let them know how they did. To craft a meaningful scenario, however, there are four areas—four ‘Cs’ to be specific—that you need to...
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Time is Money: Use a Soft Skills Course to Teach Time Management
It's often said that "time is money" and that's true in few different ways. For one, it can mean that time wasted is that much less money you can earn. But another way time and money intertwine is that they both require budgeting. In order to get the most out of...
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Customizable Courseware for Creating Compassionate Customer Service Courses
Every business has a mission, a purpose that it hopes to serve, or some kind of need it wishes to fulfill. For most businesses, one could argue that their mission is to serve those that patronize their products and services. If that is the case, such businesses ought...
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Foster Effective Communication Skills through Customizable Courseware
Effective communication skills are paramount in any kind of business. You communicate with your boss, your employees, colleagues, and clients. This being the case, an important part of the on-boarding process is fostering an environment of open communication in your...
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Maximize Your Professional Development with Industry Memberships
A few weeks ago eLearning Brothers released the all new Professional Development Package. There are so many amazing features to this package, including either a Plus Membership to The eLearning Guild or a Professional Plus Membership to the Association for Talent and...
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Best Practices for Effective Soft Skills Training
Boring soft skills training doesn’t just put employees to sleep. It lowers employee perception of your organization – your internal brand. That’s why the most effective soft skills training typically doesn’t just fly off someone else’s shelf. Savvy organizations take...
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eLearning Brothers Launches a First in the Training Market – Customizable Courseware
Salt Lake City Utah - eLearning Brothers announced today a first in the training industry - Customizable Courseware. Customizable Courseware is a fully designed and developed training package that includes the eLearning source files, classroom materials and PowerPoint...
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Mother Knows Best: 3 eLearning Lessons Your Mother Taught You
May is a magical time of year for many of us, when our minds turn to the women who raised us. On Mother's Day, we honor the sacrifices of our mothers, as well as the nurturing and discipline they exercised to help us grow into decent people. Not surprisingly, our...
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New Post-Millennial Cutouts For Your Next eLearning Soft Skills Course
In just under 7 months, eLearning Brothers has added an average of 5,800 cutout people images a month to the library for a total of over 40,000 high quality images! Included in these images are dozens of new models, hundreds of new poses, and many more costumes for...
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6 Ways to Accelerate the Learning Process
Learning is a process, and like any process, it sometimes takes a significant time investment to complete. But time is a precious resource, and should be spent wisely. One benefit to shortening the amount of time you spend learning a certain concept is that it...
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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Millennial Apocalypse and Modern Learning Solutions
Twenty years ago, "eLearning" was introduced as the web became ubiquitous and authoring tools accessible; yet their limits resulted in a plethora of online slide shows. Today, we have access to a wide range of technologies—mobile, social, virtual, search, gaming, and...
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Ameliorate Your eLearning Professional Development with 1-on-1 Mentoring
We at eLearning Brothers have just recently released the all new Professional Development Package. If it had to be explained in one sentence, it is a package that contains 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers “mentor,” a membership to either The eLearning Guild...
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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Death of the LMS and eLearning s Next Generation of Tools
Have you heard of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), SCORM, or XAPI? In last week's webinar we heard from the team that created these standards in eLearning. This recording of that webinar covers adaptive learning, experiential learning, and how xAPI is being...
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Adam Cannon Responds to #AskMeMonday on Instructional Design
Yesterday we began our #AskMeMonday Twitter conversation where we solicit questions from our followers, answer those questions inline as much as possible, and then finish up the following day with our #TellYouTuesday blog post. Yesterday’s #AskMeMonday topic of...
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