Creating an eLearning course outline can help you organize your eLearning content, visualize how your content will be structured, and how the learner will flow from one topic to another.
The success of an eLearning project, or any training project, depends on multiple people coming together to work towards a common goal. While your project…
When designing and developing an eLearning course, after you've collected and organized all your learning content, it can be challenging to leap straight into development.…
Building and developing a highly effective eLearning team isn’t easy. Whether you’re working with a team of new or experienced eLearning developers, it’s important that…
The success of an eLearning or instructional design project depends on many different variables. However, if I've learned anything over the years, it's that the…
Selecting colors and creating custom eLearning color schemes is a struggle many eLearning designers face on a regular basis. In addition to selecting and using…
Whether you’re looking to work for a large corporate organization or for yourself as a freelancer, your success depends on how well you market yourself…
When managing your eLearning projects, it can be convenient and easy to manually create your project plans and development timelines using tools like Microsoft Word…
When you’re in the early stages of designing and developing an eLearning course, it’s likely your subject matter experts will throw a boatload of information…
In the world of instructional design, there are two industry-recognized instructional design models most people follow: ADDIE and SAM. And while each model has its…
Action Mapping by Cathy Moore is the process of analyzing a performance issue, identifying potential training and non-training solutions, and designing performance-based activities to challenge your learners to put skills into practice.
The effectiveness of any eLearning course depends on how the learner processes the information provided, and whether or not that information is committed to long-term memory.
Working with subject matter experts (SMEs) isn’t always the easiest part of developing an eLearning course. Subject matter experts can sometimes be demanding. And they…
Once you understand the specific behaviors you’re looking to change with your eLearning course, you can then target your eLearning interactions towards those behaviors.
Whether you're an experienced eLearning designer, a teacher looking to leap eLearning, or an aspiring freelance eLearning designer, the most important thing is to have…
Before starting development on a new eLearning project, it’s important to make sure you’ve collected and analyzed all the information used to justify the creation…
When you're starting any new training project, whether it's a single eLearning course or a large-scale training program, it's easy to become overwhelmed trying to…
Have you ever wondered whether or not you need a degree in eLearning or instructional design to be an eLearning designer or instructional designer? Well,…
If you’ve ever created an eLearning course, you’ve experienced the challenge of chasing down your SMEs to get their feedback. All too often, SMEs will…
In the past, I've shared my thoughts about various industry-recognized instructional design and development models, like ADDIE or SAM. However, the problem with most of these…
Rather than using learning styles, the best approach is to let the content and the complexity of the task or skill being taught drive the method of instruction.
In the world of eLearning, click-to-reveal interactions are often viewed as having little or no value. And while it's true that they don't actually challenge…
When designing eLearning interactions, it’s easy to become overwhelmed trying to envision the actions the learner will take, how you’ll build them in your eLearning…
When you first start an eLearning project, there's a lot of information you must collect and expectations to establish. Much of this upfront work occurs…
If you've been working in the world of learning, instructional design, teaching, or eLearning for any amount of time, you've likely heard about the concept…
One of the most important lessons I learned when I first started designing and developing eLearning courses was the importance of building performance-based eLearning interactions.…
When you're managing an eLearning project, much of the effort is simply dedicated to keeping the project on track! While there's an unlimited number of…
A click-to-reveal interaction is any interaction where the learner clicks a button and content is revealed, whether it’s some text, a video, or anything else.
Graphic design is one of those topics and skills that a lot of new (and experienced) eLearning designers struggle to master. However, I’ve always believed…
If you've been attempting to land an eLearning or instructional design job or transition out of teaching, you've undoubtedly heard that you build an eLearning portfolio.…
If you're a teacher looking to make the transition from teaching to eLearning design or instructional design, you're not alone! According to the Alliance for Excellent…
When you’re starting work on an eLearning project, it’s not always clear what information should and should not be included in your eLearning course. How…
Whenever I’m at a conference, at work, or online, I often find myself interacting with folks with many misconceptions about eLearning. Usually, these misconceptions “show”…
If you're looking to become an eLearning designer, whether you're a teacher looking to transition into eLearning or you're already an eLearning designer looking for a…
When you're starting the design and development of an eLearning course, one of the biggest challenges people face (especially new eLearning designers) is taking a…
A good experience working with SMEs (subject-matter experts) can mean the difference between an effective versus an ineffective course; between a project that finishes on…
I made the transition into becoming a full-time freelance eLearning designer back in 2019, while I was working as the Director of Global Instructional Design…
Scoping an eLearning project simply means defining all of the parameters, tasks, roles, responsibilities, deliverables, timelines, and sometimes the cost for a project before it begins.
Although websites like LinkedIn, Monster, or Glassdoor might seem like obvious choices to find eLearning jobs, they aren’t always the best! These websites are often diluted with ads and…