Instructional Design Best Practices

May 20, 2017

Applying The Kemp Design Model In eLearning: A Guide For eLearning Professionals

Are you looking for a holistic Instructional Design approach that follows a non-linear format? In this article, I'll share 9 tips to apply the Kemp Design Model in your next eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

May 5, 2017

8 Tips To Improve eLearning Content Comprehension For Online Learners

Does your eLearning team fully understand the subject matter? Are your online learners able to assimilate the key facts and figures? In this article, I'll share everything eLearning professionals need to know about eLearning content comprehension.

by Christopher Pappas

April 23, 2017

9 Creative Ways To Reinforce Key Concepts In Online Training

Online training success relies heavily on memory retention, active recall, and positive reinforcement. In this article, I'll share 9 innovative ways to reinforce key concepts in online training.

by Christopher Pappas

April 15, 2017

Skinner's Project Pigeon: One Of The First Teaching Machines

One of the behaviorist B.F. Skinner's first "teaching machines" was a crazy plan to use pigeons to guide missiles.

by Bill Ferster

April 4, 2017

Tips And Strategies To Motivate Learners Appropriately

"Why?" "What's in it for me?" Two questions that Instructional Designers seem to be pondering all the time. And for good reason. Because, a learner who is convinced of the value of a topic is more likely to perceive a course on the topic to be highly worthy, and subsequently pay attention to the course.

by Srividya Kumar

March 22, 2017

8 Ways To Encourage Online Learner Reflection In eLearning

Reflection helps online learners absorb and assimilate the information more effectively. It also allows them to put their newfound knowledge into a real-world context. In this article, I'll explore 8 ways to encourage online learner reflection through your eLearning course design.

by Christopher Pappas

March 21, 2017

Transforming Learning: Using Video For Cognitive, Emotional, And Social Engagement

In Obsidian Learning's latest white paper, we discuss best practices for creating videos for training, including cognitive theories of learning, guidelines for design and development of instructional videos, and examples/case studies of videos developed by Obsidian.

by Stephen Victor

March 12, 2017

8 Creative Ideas For Active Learning Activities To Include In Your eLearning Course

Do you want to add new active learning activities to your online repertoire? In this article, I’ll share 8 innovative, collaborative, and creative ideas that you can use to include active learning activities in your eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

March 11, 2017

Galloping Horses To Boxing Cats: Movies In Education

The moving picture has had a long history in education, but its roots are firmly footed in the horse world of Leland Stanford and Edward Muybridge.

by Bill Ferster

March 4, 2017

The Voyager Company: Bob Stein's Voyage

Bob Stein has been thinking about the book and interactive media for almost four decades. His pioneering work as founder of the interactive media publisher The Voyager Company changed the course of how we viewed interactive multimedia, and he still thinking about the future of the book.

by Bill Ferster

February 25, 2017

Wurman’s 5 Rules Of Information Communication

Richard Saul Wurman has some great wisdom to impart about effectively communicating large amounts of information visually. He offers 5 simple rules for more effectively communicating information in any form.

by Bill Ferster

February 12, 2017

The First Videodisc: Phonovision

Before electronic videodisks, Scotsman John Logie Baird created them from phonograph platters. Don McLean's work resurrecting Baird's original disks reveals an early step in the history of interactive video.

by Bill Ferster