Those of you who are familiar with PowerPoint know that it can support and allow for the creation of some amazing graphical content. The only drawback is the lack of control. Luckily, Illustrator files can be exported out and then imported into PowerPoint, giving you the ability to create enhanced custom graphics.
We often look for a single SME to provide all the inputs that we need for a learning project. But that may not always be possible, or practical. In this article, we talk about the importance of, and the practical considerations for, having more than one SME on our project.
How and why can L&D embrace the fact that we learn from work? What can be done to burst the ‘training bubble’ where formal learning is delivered as an event, separate to the workflow? An infographic primer exploring these key questions.
When we think of custom e-learning, we tend to believe that everything should be developed from the ground up. It doesn’t have to be. Templates can be incredibly useful in ensuring that key elements don’t get missed out in the scramble to create a completely customized experience for the audience.
Seeing the tremendous boon that the periodic table is to the field of chemistry and science as a whole, we thought that instructional design could use a quick reference of its own. To that end, we’ve compiled a table of elements specifically for the instructional designers.
All big organisations have a Learning Management System. It’s used to track and record the training that the employees do. In practice, it tends to be used to administer compliance training, though it can be much broader than that.
We don’t always hear clients asking us to create effective e-learning to help improve performance. But here are a few questions we can ask, to steer them towards effectiveness, when their focus seems to be primarily on engagement.