This site contains content from around the eLearning community - from blogs and as selected by various community members using del.icio.us / delicious and other tools that mark interesting content. If you would like to be included and or participate, please contact: akarrer@techempower.com. This page contains content related to eLearning Courses a...
  • How Do You Communicate with Your E-Learners? - The Rapid eLearning Blog
    ... s a simple illustration of what happens as learners go through an elearning course. The first image below represents a screen from an elearning course on auto maintenance. The second image shows how three different learners process the ... course content to enable better communication of your content. It is a closed loop process. In an elearning environment ... learner’s understanding and provide meaningful feedback. From my experience, this is where many elearning courses ... take to elearning because they worked at a big software developer. We realized our mistake only after the first course ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Engaging Interactions For eLearning
    Interactions For eLearning: Description: Virtual products and virtual labs offer the learner a simulated environment ... Interactions For eLearning: Description: Simulate an interview or interrogation scenario where the ... learner to work through a storyline, quest, or toward an ultimate goal in an eLearning course. Have them complete a series of ... Engaging Interactions For eLearning Discussing and Demonstrating Ways to Keep Learners Awake and Intrigued ... , eLearning 0 Comments Here’s the Solving a Mystery / Investigating ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • What Steve Jobs Can Teach You About Designing E-Learning - The Rapid eLearning Blog
    ... engaging and interactive elearning courses.  But because of customer requests or limited resources, we have to cut corners and end up with visually boring elearning courses filled with nothing but bullet points. The good news is that ... presentation and offers lot of insight that you can apply to your elearning courses. Reynolds argues that the Jobs ... important to design your elearning courses (even simple ones) so that the learner can recall as much as possible. Cliff Atkinson ... ebook is on presentations, you’ll find that there are many parallels to information-based elearning courses.
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • udutu | online learning simulations made easy
    ... building. With a rapidly growing installed base of myUdutu users creating thousands of elearning modules and online courses ... ; how to build effective online courses and simulations learn how our tool myudutu works log-in to ... more click here or view this press release(pdf). Online course development made easy Whether you are a large corporate organization or a small business, the udutu online course authoring tool – myudutu™ – can save you time and money. Myudutu™ is a FREE web-based tool which allows users to create highly interactive elearning ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • pipwerks.com " Building eLearning courses: Should we use eLearning authoring tools?
    Building eLearning courses: Should we use eLearning authoring tools? This post was triggered by BJ Schone’s question "How do you build eLearning courses?" So, here’s my question: How do you build your eLearning courses? Do you build them from scratch (ex. HTML, JavaScript, etc.)? Do you use ... scenarios for teams creating new courses: The team is large, with specialists. I know of some eLearning companies ... eLearning authoring tools. More on that in a minute. When you get to updating courses, the question becomes: Who ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning - The Rapid eLearning Blog
    ... point presentations.  They’re not really designed for elearning courses.  This means that you’ll have to create your own templates that work better with the rapid elearning software. This post will share with you my ... look at the image that inspired it and then click the demo link to see my template applied to an elearning course ... course, you can always pre-build a template and save it as template.pot. I usually make four screens for my elearning ... The Rapid Elearning Blog The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • eQuixotic
    ... choose good, thank you very much. And as an eLearning developer, I feel obligated to, um, oblige. I realize, of course ... actually a dismal failure. Almost every eLearning course sucks rotten eggs.” - Seth Godin “Stop your eLearning ... eLearning course that will explain the use of this system. Yes, alarm bells were already sounding in my head. One hour later, I had managed to navigate my way through possibly the most mind-numbingly inept eLearning course I have ever ... to create good eLearning was not lost on me. And the banner in the default template used in this course taunted me ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • eLearning Development News - Gary Hegenbart
    ... absolutely have to use new technologies as consumers before we use them as content creators. I took eLearning courses ... animation, Unison has all the tools I need to manage and develop eLearning courses in one user friendly package. But donâ??t ... . What makes Unison so cool? For starters, Unison is much more than a course authoring tool; itâ??s an eLearning project ... eLearning Development News News & Notes on eLearning, training, and technology ... , eLearning Tags: Geolearning, LMS selection My current research project of finding an LMS ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • 's scientific flash learning instruments
    ... they ar... ► May (17) How to plan a phased pilot course in an eLearning ... fact sheet for the seminar on Social Medi... starting a medical eLearning course for low resour... eLearning papers ... skip to main | skip to sidebar Ignatia Webs eLearning techtales with social media in low resource ... technologies both in software as well as photography-microscopy allow us to develop simulations and animations that ... prepare, educate or assess themselves with the use of these animations and simulations.The simulation can be ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • elearnspace. everything elearning: eLearning Categories
    ... designer, elearning often means courses or learning materials directed at meeting an objective within the larger scope of program development. A corporate trainer may view elearning as a combination of courses and ... : Courses Most discussion of elearning centres on courses. Organizations typically take existing ... elearning. Some designers are beginning to employ simulations, story telling, and the unique traits of online ... “courses as elearning” view stems from their similarities to the classroom environment.
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • How to Conduct a Successful Learning Management Systems (LMS) Selection Process
    ... elearning courses to identify the pros and cons of the system. The process also help to concretise how well the system was able ... (44) Rapid eLearning (37) Simulations (33) Learning Technology (33) Instructional Design (30) eLearning ... ) Social Networks (288) Simulations (266) eLearning Developer (261) Web 2.0 (258) Instructional Design ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 Learning Management Systems - LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
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    Tony Karrer delicious links - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
    ... not. It’s actually a dismal failure. Almost every eLearning course sucks rotten eggs.” - Seth Godin “ ... ’m required to take an eLearning course that will explain the use of this system. Yes, alarm bells were already ... his book. Since my profession is primarily in eLearning design - not sales, marketing, or classroom instruction - I found myself mentally replacing the words “presentation” and “PowerPoint” with “eLearning” ... quick Find & Replace, he could resend his manuscript to the printer, entitle it eLearning Zen, and have ...
    eQuixotic - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - Comments
  • eLearning Weekly Turns One!
    ... people are following along. These were the Top 10 most popular posts of the past year: How do you build eLearning courses? Assima Simulation Software: Initial Impressions Using Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional eLearning Jobs Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson (This was my first post!) eLearning Design Documents Large-scale Applications Training ... My, how time flies! My first post to eLearning Weekly was one year ago today. It’s been a great year, and blogging has been incredibly helpful for me, both personally and professionally. And of course, thank you for visiting! I ...
    eLearning Weekly - Saturday, April 12, 2008 - Comments
  • ASTD TechKnowledge 2008: Postmortem
    ... the way to San Antonio to learn how Jane Doe from Lake Okeefenokee School District storyboards her eLearning courses. I ... . The opening keynote by David Pogue (I’m a big fan!), while not specifically related to eLearning, was energizing ... % with his comment that 90% of eLearning should be thrown away. Amen, Dr. Allen. In fact, his bleak perspective on the state of eLearning today echoes my own, which provides the foundation for my blog. Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate gave a ... also met Tony Karrer of TechEmpower and the eLearning Technology blog (hey, we both say tomayto!), who facilitated ...
    eQuixotic - Sunday, March 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Software Upgrade Training and Support
    ... training about 80% of these employees using a combination of self-study eLearning courses and webinars. Everything will be tracked in our LMS. Applications training can be excruciatingly boring, especially when taken as a self-study eLearning course. These courses generally consist of step-by-step instructions where the learner watches a task as it is ... eLearning Course Be? In this case, it's identifying what the minimum amount of upfront training that's required to get ... your solution with the pilots of the system.You can also check out my post on: Software Simulation eLearning for ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, September 24, 2007 - Comments
  • Captivate and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based Presentations
    ... products and if you look at my posts: Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction and eLearning Course ... Simulation eLearning then Captivate (or the other tools list in my post) would be more appropriate than Captivate. But, in this case, it's not simulation, it's interactive presentation.For the task described, where the source is initially MS ... that Captivate is great for simulations and demonstrations of computer tasks, and can be used for scenario-based training for that kind of content. All good.However, this project doesn't involve ANY simulations, demonstrations, or ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - Comments
  • Top Ten Suggested New Year's Resolutions for eLearning Professionals
    ... the amount of time I spend on check-the-box training.The next time I'm asked to produce an eLearning course, I will ... present as a Reference Hybrid.For the little bit of content that I do create as an eLearning course, I will spend at least ... , simulations, compelling storylines. I'll think like a novelist, movie producer, someone who cares about engaging the audience.I'll collect a list of resources such as Clark Quinn's - Seven Steps to Better eLearning that I will use to challenge my eLearning course design. (What else do people use?)I'll help my boss understand that they aren't Captain Piccard and ...
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Comments
  • Rapid eLearning Tools
    Rapid eLearning Tools Satisfaction from the eLearningGuild Research reported Feb 2007 - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool SatisfactionSee also Software Simulation Tools.Page update Mar 2008. When the above graphic was taken, it ... ). They also didn't have many users at the time. I'm always somewhat skeptical of niche tools (see eLearning Course ... Tool Satisfaction at the bottom of the page - see also - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction blog post ... Hall shoot-outs. For example, in 2007 PowerPoint to eLearning Shootout they compared: ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - Comments