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July 19, 2019

Editors' Choice

Can Microlearning Lead To Behavior Change?

Can bite-sized learning lead to deeper learning and prompt behavior change? What can Instructional Designers do to enable this process?

by Dyti Dawn

July 18, 2019

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Beyond Current LMS Myopia: The Future Lies In 360° Support Systems

LMS technology has enabled a journey from learning delivery to learning support and now to also potentially supporting performance excellence. The latter is a realistic outcome if ODS and PMS best practice are integrated into LMSs to create a 360°, multi-dimensional organizational support system.

by Phil McInnes

July 15, 2019

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Finding Your Type: Fonts And Their Influence On Learning

Typeface and fonts have a subtle but powerful impact on how online learners react to, view, interact with, and learn online content. Yet fonts have been overlooked as elements of online learning design. Read on as Mary Burns explores the power of the mighty little font in eLearning courses.

by Mary Burns

July 5, 2019

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How To Create Effective Storyboards For eLearning?

If you are new to Instructional Design, you have probably already heard the term storyboard, but you still do not know how to create one?

by Vesela Georgieva

June 16, 2019

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8 Corporate Learning And Development Myths To Debunk In 2019

All leading organizations know the importance of investing in professional training development programs. However, in 2019, organizations need to be aware of and take measures against some longstanding corporate Learning and Development myths that keep them from getting the most out of their training programs.

by Amit Gautam

June 12, 2019

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How To Identify Training Needs Of Employees: 8 Ways To Start

Knowing how to identify the training needs of employees is the foundation on which your entire training is built. It makes sense to get it right. Here's how.

by Michael Hansen

May 24, 2019

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Top 10 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your eLearning Voiceover Artist

Increasingly Instructional Designers are called on to curate voiceover for their projects to compete for attention in a peak TV era. How do you talk with a voiceover and direct performance in order to get the best results, so that your client is raving about the vocal part of the project?

by Paul Mclaughlin

May 23, 2019

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Non-Conscious Aspects Of Learning And Performance

In a former life, I worked as a health educator. I still love building this type of instruction. But here’s the thing. Changing people’s health behavior is very difficult, which shouldn’t be a surprise to people who develop workplace instruction. Work behavior is hard to change, just like health behavior. This article will explain an important reason why changing thinking and behavior is so difficult.

by Patti Shank, PhD

May 12, 2019

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Learning Curve: How Employers Can Change Steep To Genial Learning Experiences

There’s plenty of evidence, both anecdotal and empirical, that if you try to teach someone new things when they are anxious, the result is often counterproductive. So, what can employers do to help transform a steep learning experience into a more genial and smooth learning curve?

by Marina Arshavskiy

May 10, 2019

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The Power Of Feedback In eLearning

“Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this impact can be either positive or negative”. All you ever wanted to ask about feedback but never did.

by Zsolt Olah

May 9, 2019

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Successful Role-Play For Learning Online

Role-play is something we see children doing every day, playing and testing the roles they dream to become one day. And for many years, it has become an established, very effective way of delivering training. But how is something, that is all about the face-to-face experience, done effectively online?

by Sonia Patel

May 9, 2019

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How To Use Bloom's Taxonomy For Business

Bloom's Taxonomy represents different levels of learning and should be utilized when training objectives are developed to understand how to train the task, how much time the training will take, and how to measure successful learning when the training is complete.

by Deanna Flanagan