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Creative E-learning

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Creative Process: Designing a Hollywood Movie Poster

June 1, 2010 Creative E-learning

As many of you know, the Academy Awards of E-learning, aka Articulate 2010 Guru Awards, is coming up. The Guru Awards are a great opportunity for e-learning designers to showcase their best Articulate work while competing for fame and prizes. One of the biggest challenges for many e-learning designers is coming up with a visual [...]

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Heavy Metal Makeover: 5 Design Ideas to Rock Your Learners Into Compliance

May 24, 2010 Creative E-learning

Let’s face it, no one takes compliance e-learning seriously. Slide by slide, learners glaze over the rules and regulations while unconsciously clicking the next button. The problem is that most compliance courses use the same visual and narrative voice across all their courses. That’s like using the stop sign for all roadside communication. The reality [...]

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Macbeth Motion Comic as E-learning Scenario Model

March 23, 2010 Creative E-learning

If you’re an e-learning designer looking for examples of engaging scenarios, visual storytelling and learner control all in one asynchronous course, you’re in for a real treat with this Macbeth motion comic. “Macbeth? As in Shakespeare Macbeth?” Yes, that Macbeth. Admittedly, Shakespeare knew a thing or two about writing and storytelling. But before you say, [...]

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3 Ways to Create Engaging E-learning Bullets

June 21, 2009 Creative E-learning

I’ve always felt one of our responsibilities as e-learning designers was to design learning in such a way that learners actually want to take our courses. Keeping our visual designs fresh and a little unpredictable is just one way we can design more enjoyable courses. Unpredictable? Yes. The more learners know what you’re going to [...]

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Compliance Poetry

February 10, 2009 Creative E-learning

How many times have you heard compliance training is too boring to be taught in an entertaining or meaningful way? Most designers would agree that compliance training is the least glamorous of corporate training. But Yehuda Berlinger just made it a little harder for designers to justify such comments. Yehuda rewrote US and Canadian copyright [...]

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O’reilly Rough Cuts as Rapid E-learning Model?

November 24, 2008 Creative E-learning

Remember the good old days of e-learning development when your courseware would remain fresh and current for at least six months, maybe longer? It seemed even compliance courseware only needed updates a couple times a year. Not so much anymore. Content complexity, dynamic industry regulations and an increasing need for user input has made courseware [...]

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Happy the Hedgehog *Knows* Compliance E-learning

November 18, 2008 Creative E-learning

Mobile phone companies continue to raise the bar for the most creative compliance public service announcement (PSA). It continues to amaze me (read: annoy) how groups *outside* the training department regularly design more creative and engaging training than those in the training department. Consider the most recent Sprint PSA reminding moviegoers to turn off their [...]

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10 Tips for Ensuring Image Neutrality in Elearning Courseware

June 4, 2008 Creative E-learning

Anyone who’s ever designed an elearning course, corporate brochure or any form of graphic design, has at one time or another been asked to replace one or more images that could be perceived to be offensive or biased. In corporate elearning, this can be particularly challenging since so much of our courseware calls for images [...]

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Creative Elearning via Email

February 27, 2008 Creative E-learning

Lately I’ve been working on identifying some alternative and cost-effective ways for delivering training. It’s an important area of focus for my group right now. So tonight, while reading through some white papers, elearning blogs, books and forums, I received a joke via email. As someone who loves (and welcomes) interruptions, I opened and read [...]

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Made to Stick – Going the Extra Step in Elearning Design

February 13, 2008 Creative E-learning

One of the more meaningful books I read last year was Made To Stick. If you’re a learning professional, you need to read this book. There are many great examples on how to make ideas (read: training) “sticky”. In particular, the Beyond War scenario: Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. They will, and [...]

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Powers of Ten, Multimedia Communication and Flash Components

February 12, 2008 Creative E-learning

Just listened to last week’s podcast of Science Friday. Ira interviewed a guest who specializes in “big numbers” and who talked about how one goes about communicating such indescribable values. Just as I was about to shout “Eames video” at my iTunes, a caller referenced the famous Powers of Ten short film. The Powers of [...]

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