Multimedia Learning :: E-learning Design and Development

Periodic Table of Typefaces

March 13, 2009 Typography

Squidspot offers newbie and expert designers some awesome Performance Support for type design in a Periodic Table of Typefaces. Fonts are arranged in groups and information such as font popularity, type designer and year designed are included. After you spend some time with the table, check out the awesome type resources used to determine the [...]

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Abraham Lincoln and Facebook for Learning

February 16, 2009 Facebook Learning

Last week Jane Bozarth and Cammy Bean posted a terrific parody of what Abraham Lincoln’s Facebook page might look like. While Lincoln’s Facebook page is well-done and humorous, it also serves as a history refresher by including popular, and lesser-known facts, about Lincoln. For example, are you familiar with all the references in the page: [...]

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Font Conference

February 10, 2009 Humor

Hilarious font parody via Innovative Interactivity. //

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CreateDebate – Online Forum Debates for Learning

February 10, 2009 Online Forums

I’m a big fan of peer-based learning, especially online discussion forums. I learned a lot of what I know about multimedia design from asking and answering questions in newsgroups over the years. Limitations of Forums While forums are a great way to reach out to a community with questions, forums aren’t as good at delineating [...]

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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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The Civil War in Four Minutes

December 20, 2008 Multimedia Learning

Here’s a learning video worth watching. The original, wall-sized video, was created for the Lincoln Museum to “illustrate the scale, scope and tragedy of the Civil War.” Using the ratio of 1 week:1 second, the video begins with Lincoln’s election in 1860 and concludes with the final surrenders in 1865. This powerfully emotional video uses [...]

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The World of Chemistry

December 13, 2008 Multimedia Learning

Here’s a creative way of anthropomorphizing the elements. At first glance, this one might seem like a lot of work to produce. And maybe it would be for a single person, but what would it look like if an entire class or group were assigned to produce creative shorts? Via Getting Things Done in Academia [...]

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StoryCorps, Podcasting and E-learning

November 28, 2008 E-learning Audio

So by now, chances are you’ve tried, or at least heard about, podcasting for learning. Whether you’re publishing content specifically as podcasts, extracting audio from existing e-learning courseware or interviewing lines of business asking them to share their stories, you’re probably well aware of the benefits of audio-based learning. Getting Started If you’re considering incorporating [...]

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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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The Art of Swimming

November 18, 2008 Books

Last night we Netflix’d a PBS documentary on Benjamin Franklin. I’ve actually seen this documentary before, but this time something stood out: Benjamin Franklin learned to swim by reading a book. He didn’t learn with a swimming coach, or from ILT or WBT classes, but with a book containing simple illustrations. The book is called [...]

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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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Second Life Workshop – DevLearn08

October 24, 2008 Second Life

I’ve been putting the final touches on my Second Life workshop for DevLearn08. This will be a great opportunity for anyone looking to get started with Second Life as a corporate learning environment. The workshop will be an all hands-on event where participants will have the opportunity to create personalized environments they can take back [...]

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Flash CS4 for Elearning Production

September 26, 2008 Flash Elearning

One of the features my team is most excited about in Flash CS4 is the new object-based animation. This should significantly reduce a lot of basic elearning production times for tasks such as: Animated text and bullets; Simple image fades and transitions. Granted, Elearning is (should be) much more than animated bullets and sliding text [...]

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Rapid Development: Campaign Social Networking Style

August 23, 2008 Rapid E-learning

We all know how templates enable design teams and their customers to jump over much of the upfront drudgery and focus on the important part: the content. Should it then be any surprise that newsmakers would use such templates in their social networking efforts? Barack Obama’s group obviously wanted to maximize their Flickr juice by [...]

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AICPA Tech+ Conference

June 7, 2008 Second Life

Heading to Las Vegas next week for the AICPA Tech+ conference. Focus for this conference is on AICPA’s 2008 Top Technology Initiatives. While Second Life didn’t quite make it to that list, the session should still prove valuable for CPAs interested in learning more about how people are using, learning and working in Second Life. [...]

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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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Product-Based Avatars For Customer Education

April 29, 2008 Avatars for Learning

Spent yesterday participating in the Virtual Worlds At Work Symposium talking about using virtual worlds for Sales Training. Thanks to Anders Gronstedt for the invitation. While most of my development in Second Life has been around new hire training and leadership, I think there’s a really exciting opportunity for using product avatars for consumer education. [...]

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