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…
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…
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”…
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.
Tim Slade
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.
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…
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…
The truth is, people don’t hate eLearning; people hate bad eLearning.
Tim Slade
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…
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…
If you’re new to the world of instructional design, eLearning, or learning and development in general, it can be overwhelming trying to navigate what instructional…
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 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.…