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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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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Translating elearning into other languages: 6 tips

Learning designers who only start thinking about the translation of an elearning solution when the original language has been released face unnecessary additional costs and, potentially, a lengthy list of minor corrections that will lead to an inconsistent, expensive, hard to maintain solution. Here are some recommendations for designers who…

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On the “lock navigation” debate

Opinions about locking navigation in elearning are riddled with assumptions. These assumptions are not always disclosed as part of the conversation. So when I hear yet another “best” course of action regarding lock navigation, it usually feels like a cacophony: while most opinions are certainly sound (pun intended), we haven’t…

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5 Virtual Training Mistakes – Webinar Tips

Here’s a collection of things I’d rather avoid when delivering virtual training, either observed while attending sessions, or experienced through my own sessions and learned the hard way, turned into 5 webinar tips. Enabling the webcam After very interesting discussions with many L&D consultants and instructional designers, I concluded that…

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Long-term L&D Planning

Tighter budgets and the pressure to “become more agile” are making L&D teams nimbler and pushing them to achieve great efficiency gains. But the process may also lead the team to inadvertently lose sight of the horizon, and that loss can easily cancel any cost benefits gained in this or…

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Personas in elearning

Personas are fictional characters that reliably represent a target demographic. Personas are commonly used when designing products and software to bring a tangible, detailed description of the typical user to the makers of those products. Designers use personas to understand product needs, the most likely uses of a product, how…

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Measuring Learning Transfer

How do we measure training, and why? Are L&D departments tracking, measuring and reporting meaningful learning data, or just data that makes a solid case for their own survival? It’s not easy to determine learning effectiveness and learning transfer. But sometimes I wonder if the metrics we usually gather and…

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