Instructional Design Best Practices
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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