Instructional Design Best Practices
eLBX Online Day 30 – An eLearning Interactivity Showcase
Instructional Design expert Misty Harding joined us today to close out eLBX Online. A mere mortal might have been intimidated being the grand finale of 6 weeks of amazing eLearning webinars, but Misty is no mere mortal. She showed up with her game face on and an...
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eLBX Online Day 29 – Unique Ways to Create Interactivity in Storyline
Senior Developer Bill Milstid joined us today for an eye-opening look at how you can take simple actions and variables in Storyline and create really unique interactivity. Today was less of a step-by-step and more of a conceptual, inspiration-sparking look at ways to...
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eLBX Online Day 28 – How to Develop Accessible eLearning
eLearning developer Dan Frazee joined us today to share some step-by-step methods essential to developing accessible courses. In the webinar, he demonstrated where to find the accessibility settings in each of the top three authoring tools—Adobe Captivate,...
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eLBX Online Day 27 – How to Design Accessible eLearning
Are you committed to delivering accessible eLearning, but not sure where or how to start? You might be surprised by how many others are in that same boat! In this webinar, Instructional Designer Nancy Reyes walked attendees through the essentials of designing...
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eLBX Online Day 26 – A Beginner’s Guide to 508 Compliance
We are in the final week of eLBX Online! Today we kicked things off with a bang with guest Laura Silver, Chief Operating Officer at Trivantis. This session studied the goals and results of designing and developing eLearning for usability versus accessibility. Laura...
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Is Your Design Really “Responsive?”
One of the biggest points of confusion I’ve seen evolve in recent years is how people use the word “responsive” when speaking about device-independent eLearning. How can it be that people can interpret one word so differently? Over time, “responsive” has become the...
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10 eLearning Game Ideas for Instructional Designers
As part of eLBX Online Gamification week, let's take a look at this article from instructional designer Misty Harding on simple game ideas anyone can incorporate into their eLearning development! Instructional Designers have the ability to make awesome eLearning...
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How xAPI Benefits the Learner
xAPI has been a buzzword among eLearning professionals for a while, and rightly so. It’s very exciting to know that you can see exactly who looked at what page in your eLearning and for how long they looked at it. Seeing the results come in that say 200 people...
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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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Design Thinking: Your Questions Answered
We had a great first eLBX Online session, Design Thinking Meets Instructional Design, on Monday with Chris Willis, Senior Product Manager – Customizable Courseware. Attendees asked tons of great questions and we tried to answer as many as we could during the webinar....
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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