Would You Subject Yourself to This?

By |2016-11-03T09:00:15+00:00November 3rd, 2016|Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Instructional Design, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development, Uncategorized|

Mind-numbing boredom and hair-tearing frustration happen. They’re facts of life. But the thought of learning something new shouldn’t put people on autopilot. If the learner comes out of an educational offering wishing for that chunk [...]

Bridge the Skills-Gap with Competency Based Learning

By |2016-09-22T09:00:42+00:00September 22nd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Communications, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Member Engagement & Retention, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. I have some experience but there are new rules and regulations and I just can’t keep up. I could go [...]

The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned From Instructional Design

By |2016-09-16T18:28:58+00:00September 16th, 2016|Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Posts, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Mobile Learning, Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

I’m not a “numbers person.” I never have been. Some people aren’t “words people.” And that’s okay. In college, I cringed on behalf of my science major friends when they told me about their multi-hour [...]

I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 2

By |2016-08-25T23:59:36+00:00August 25th, 2016|Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Posts, Instructional Design, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Part 1 discussed how the rush to understand millennials isn’t really about millennials. It’s a crisis of outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices. This time I want to take a look at five of those [...]

Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best Part 3

By |2016-08-18T09:00:32+00:00August 18th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Creative Design, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Chapter 3: Advanced QA Testing So far we’ve talked about the basic and intermediate techniques of quality assurance testing (QA). In our final installment, we’ll look at more advanced techniques that will help your eLearning [...]

Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best Part 2

By |2016-08-04T09:00:16+00:00August 4th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Chapter 2: Intermediate Quality Assurance Testing In our first chapter, we discussed some of the basics of quality assurance (QA). Now, we will discuss some of the more involved tasks that are associated with making [...]

Placeholder Images: Do They Help or Hurt in an eLearning Storyboard?

By |2016-07-01T00:49:28+00:00July 1st, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Creative Design, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Not so long ago, in a nearby place, someone spent a lot of time leaving notes about the photos in an eLearning storyboard. It turned out that they were just placeholders. The final course was [...]

Pokémon and Gamified Learning

By |2016-06-23T01:48:51+00:00June 23rd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Creative Design, eLearning, Featured Post, Game-based Learning, Gamification, Gamification, Instructional Design, Member Engagement & Retention, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

I recently had a conversation about something I hadn’t thought about for a long time. Pokémon. And it dawned upon me that the franchise is a surprisingly good metaphor for gamified learning. For those who [...]

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