Comparing Typical (Crammed) Learning vs. Spaced Learning
Remember those days in school when you used to cram in whole books the night before the test? Did you remember afterwards even a wee bit of what you gobbled up within ...
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How to Keep Your Freelance eLearning Clients Happy (Without Losing Your Sanity)
For freelance eLearning professionals and training consultants, building and nurturing relations with clients is integral to the success, growth, and sustainability of ...
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The Ins and Outs of Rapid Prototyping for eLearning
There's you. Then there are the graphic designers, the coding guys, and the client. How do you ensure that you are all on the same page about the eLearning course that ...
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5 Tips to Be a More Productive (and Happy) eLearning Professional
A well-designed eLearning course is a treat for the eye, punches in the message hard, keeps you glued to it, and sticks in your mind. But as an instructional designer, ...
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Smart Ways to Become an eLearning Productivity Ninja
As eLearning designers, we have to wear many hats and juggle multiple tasks. We write storyboards, interact with clients and SMEs, coordinate with team members from ...
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Hand-picked Resources to Help You Become an Instructional Designer
With the coming of the Internet, gathering information on almost everything under the sun has become easier than ever before. Just type a few words and Google will throw ...
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Story, Camera, Shots! How to Use Cinematic Techniques to Add Life to Your eLearning
Your e-Learning course must have a narrative that flows. Like a cinematic masterpiece, your selection of graphics, text, audio, and video all need to work together — ...
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Why More Instructional Designers Should Harness the Power of Visual Metaphors
A metaphor is a powerful figure of speech. It strings together seemingly disparate ideas and/or objects to create novel associations that bring to life and simplify an ...
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Struggling to Keep Learners Engaged? Get Back to Basics
Remember how you learned math? You went through four stages. You learned what adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing mean (tell). Then your teacher taught you ...
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A 5-Step Guide To Creating Compelling Infographics of Your Own
Attractive, compelling, easily consumable —People have come to love Infographics. They simplify data and makes consuming them easier. They are exciting! And they jazz up ...
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The Secret Jedi Formula for Communicating with SMEs
The specialized and in-depth knowledge subject matter experts have is a treasure trove for their organization. If leveraged with a learning initiative and transferred ...
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6 Things No One Tells You About Becoming an eLearning Designer
So, you think you found your calling?
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