This article highlights the importance of grasping the essential skills of instructional design, such as understanding the learning process and creating effective learning experiences, prior to exploring the plethora of secondary skills such as authoring tools.
Learning campaigns bring together multiple touchpoints in a cohesive manner, enabling repetition, spacing, multimodal delivery, right-sized content, adaptive learning, and engagement, all of which are necessary for effective learning leading to skill building and / or behavior change. This article explains why learning campaigns work, and how to create an effective one.
While accessibility traditionally is meant to enable people with disabilities to use our products, it is actually for everyone. Therefore, making products accessible is not only the right thing to do but also good for business.
In this article, we talk about why persona stories are more useful than persona CVs. While CVs can provide information, they do not evoke emotions and empathy, which is the whole point of creating learner personas.
Learn about the key roles that are needed to build an effective L&D team. Whether you have a small team or a larger one, these roles can be mixed and matched to fit the needs of your organization.
This article argues for the importance of distinguishing between generalist and specialist L&D roles in job postings. This will help candidates better understand what they’re applying for and to attract the right candidates with the right skills and experience.
Story-based narratives in gamification are thought of as the epitome of intrinsic motivation, but that’s not always the case. This article explains why, and offers pointers on how to handle it.
By integrating sustainability into our learning initiatives, L&D can help employees understand the impact of their actions on the environment and empower them to make good choices. This not only benefits the planet, but it can also drive business value by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing brand reputation. This article delves into how L&D can spearhead and drive this important initiative in organizations.
The question of learner control has always been an important issue in e-learning. Some argue that giving learners control over their learning process can enhance engagement and improve learning outcomes. At the same time, there is a tangible fear that too much control can lead to distractions and ineffective learning. In this article, we explore the idea of learner control and examine whether it is truly beneficial for learners or not.
MS Word – a tool that looks simple at first glance, but is extensive as you dig deeper. This article explores some little-known tips and tricks that can make your next e-learning storyboard development project go faster.
Storytelling has the power to transport us to different worlds.
It can also be an incredibly effective tool in your next course.
Weaving a tale into your instructional design can help learners better understand and remember material, and make it more relatable and interesting. So, next time you’re creating a course, think about how you can incorporate stories to bring it to life.
Learner engagement is a tough beast to tame. Granted. But let’s not forget that it’s not the end goal in itself. Read on to find out why, and what to focus on additionally.
