Instructional Design Best Practices
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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Webinar: Writing Much More Better
Earlier this week we had a spectacular webinar with one of our instructional designers, Dr. David Christiansen discussing writing for eLearning! Dr. Christiansen covered so many great topics that we couldn't answer all the attendees' questions during the webinar....
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Webinar: How to Align Creative eLearning Themes with Instructional Intent
Misty Harding, Custom Instructional Design & Program Manager—or as we call her around the office, the Great and Powerful Misty—joined us for a webinar on eLearning themes last week! In this information-packed hour, she covered a plethora of great ideas and tips on...
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Color Theory for eLearning
We had a great webinar last week on designing visual hierarchy. Our senior designer, Stacey Wilhelmsen, touched on some elements of color while discussing visual hierarchy principles. It sparked a great discussion and many more questions about color from the audience,...
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3 Reasons Performance Support Is Vital
It’s time to take a moment and give performance support its due. But first, what is performance support? Performance support can take many forms, but in essence, it is task-specific guidance, support, or resources delivered at the moment of need. A printed resource...
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Setting the Standard for eLearning Assessments
Previously, we discussed how authentic assessments can be used to continuously improve the quality of eLearning experiences. Another key to the continuous improvement of your eLearning experience is the integration of quality assessment standards into the...
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Immersing Learners in Engaging eLearning Assessments
For many workplaces, the educational argument for integrating authentic assessments into their eLearning experiences is powerful. When effective, authentic assessments not only provide significant prompts to engage learners in the experience, they also help to equip...
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Webinar: The Hard Value of Soft Skills Training
Time and again, employer surveys reveal what most training professionals already know: soft skills are crucial for developing new hires and emerging leaders in your organization. Soft skills such as effective communication, creative problem solving, and conflict...
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For Courses That Make a Difference: Remember Your CBAs
I’ve been designing courses for a number of years now. When I think about the training that has been the most effective, it involved helping the client to “remember their CBAs.” I could have gone with “ABCs,” but then the process would be backwards. Let’s avoid that....
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Webinar: “Yes, And:” An Improviser’s View on Custom eLearning
We had a hilarious and informative webinar this week with Ivan Bigney from our Custom Solutions team. In addition to being a top-notch Custom Solutions Consultant, Ivan is a regular in the local improvisational comedy scene. As Ivan showed us in this webinar, improv...
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Leveraging the Capabilities of AGILE Instructional Design Strategies
For many learning organizations, the term “AGILE” has become a hot topic. Often, when referred to in a business sense, AGILE strategies tend to focus on more project management or software development areas (such as with achieving continuous improvement, maintaining...
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