¿Una imagen? ¿Mil palabras? ¡Basta!

¿Qué es mejor, una imagen o mil palabras? Cuando esta conversación pasa de un contexto informal a uno profesional, y especialmente al de la formación, me pregunto hasta cuándo vamos a estar estancados en esta falsa dicotomía que tanto perjudica al sector. En inglés, las expresiones “sucker’s choice” (la falsa…

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Why you should be doing agile L&D development

Agile, iterative, successive approximation… There are many terms that broadly encapsulate the same concept: agile L&D development, or the delivery of small incremental value-add to your business through an iterative approach. Here’s why you should be agile too. Life is agile We have all heard someone complain about a specific…

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La irrelevancia de los estilos de aprendizaje

Estoy convencido de la irrelevancia de los estilos de aprendizaje a la hora de diseñar elearning. En las revisiones de un diseño que está ya tomando forma, no hay nada que me haga temer más por la integridad del proyecto que un compañero apuntando con preocupación al hecho de que…

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Creating international elearning with Camtasia: More tips

I am going to pick up from my last post to add more tips that may help in creating international elearning with Camtasia, especially if you are creating multiple versions of the same solution in multiple languages. As I explained in that post, because Camtasia generates keyboard callouts in real-time,…

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Creating international elearning

Creating international elearning experiences is not simply a matter of translating content (see “Translating elearning into other languages: 6 tips“). The platform and architecture must also be ready to work in systems that use different formats and assumptions. While these differences become apparent as international users engage their computers and…

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4 L&D Wishes for 2015

My wish list for corporate learning 2015. Just four, all of them L&D maturity indicators. 1. “Blended” fades No, we don’t stop blending. But we stopped talking about it because slowly but surely everything became more or less blended. At design time, all options are considered equally, without having to…

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Hacking course surveys

If you had a simple, honest system to sway course result surveys by as much as 20% to your advantage, would you use it? What would this mean to the reliability of course surveys filled out by learners after ILT, webinars and elearning deliveries? The setting Imagine your work environment…

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3 reasons to manage elearning terminology

No, by “elearning terminology” I don’t mean the glossary that may appear at the end of some online courses. Elearning terminology is about the language that is used within learning solutions, and also across, if as most elearning designers, you manage more than one project for the same customer. Elearning…

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You, the elearning storyteller

Dear Jane, I am going to be blunt: No, we don’t need a storytelling workshop. No, I don’t think we need to review our solution portfolio to include storytelling. It’s not that I don’t believe in storytelling. I get it. But frankly, I think we are all well beyond the…

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