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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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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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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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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Onboarding, elearning and tacit knowledge

Onboarding is probably one of the best examples of how you can “pit a good performer against a bad system, and the system will win almost every time” (Rummler & Brache, 1990). Picture this from the new hire’s point of view: They’ve just completed what was probably an exhausting interview…

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LX: Shifting from Content to Experience

We are flooded by content. It is, literally, a world of information. And Google’s mission, apparently, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. I take note that Google assumes “the world’s information” is worth accessing. It is true that by democratizing broadcasting we pay the…

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The Death of ILT

Will instructor-led training (ILT) be completely eliminated from organization training programs? It’s a question that pops up often, both from learners and training staff. I find this question annoying. Not because I think it’s without merit – it is an important discussion in a time of change. But I tend…

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eLearning Conversion

I think I found a little gem in the HLM, or Hybrid Learning Model, as part of my postgrad elearning studies at the Open University. What is interesting is that when I first saw it, I didn’t think about learning design, its primary purpose most likely – I thought about elearning…

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