The goal of any eLearning course is to help learners create long-lasting knowledge. While eLearning can captivate the learner’s attention, studies also suggest that on average 50% of the information learners consume is forgotten within an hour. So how do we design a course that both boosts employee engagement and helps learners retain information?
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Podcasts are here, and they are here to stay. Nearly one in ten US adults downloaded or listened to a podcast in the last 30 days, and with the current pandemic, more people are stuck at home looking for good content than ever before.
Audio Content Is King: A Beginners Guide to Podcasting Read More »
Content Strategy uses trustworthy, compelling media to communicate an organization’s workforce development goals and broader learning philosophy to a specific audience. A content strategy is important because it improves an audience’s learning experience, captivates their imagination, and garners support and interest for a company or business.
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As you may be experiencing firsthand, the COVID 19 crisis has pushed students out of the classroom and into the world of online learning. Experts predict that online and remote learning isn’t going anywhere and that most schools will continue with an eLearning hybrid approach. If digital is our future, how do we provide the best education for our learners?
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Working remotely has been a norm for me for the past nine years. The level of discipline required is something that I crafted and molded to achieve an even balance of work and home.
Digital Learning: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks Read More »
Did you devour Charlotte’s Tale? Were you mesmerized by Matilda? Did you wait for your letter to Hogwarts after reading Harry Potter? For many of us, our love of reading, our pathway to creativity, and the gateway to our imagination were started with the books and stories we read as children.
We Learn Fun Facts: Our Favorite Readings as a Kid Read More »
A former student government president, a former game designer, an amateur photographer, a self-taught coder, an English major, and a Hollywood script writer walk into a room. What do they do?
Wait….Stop Me If You Have Heard This One! Read More »
We have spent a lot of time talking about changing the way in which we, as digital learning designers and digital learning developers, can change the way in which we build digital learning products. We declared eLearning dead, discussed creating unifying design principles (while speaking Dothraki and Klingon), took a page from the playbook of iconic brands, and talked about some patterns that are worth repeating—but now we want to turn our attention to one of our favorite topics: Content.
Do Learners Dream in Corporate Jargon? Read More »
Design in the foundation of a truly great digital product. Whether it is an app on the Apple App Store, Netflix, or Amazon—every great digital experience starts with design. Yet when it comes to creating digital learning products, designers tend to focus on the didactic design and, to a lesser degree, the visual design of the learning experience.
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Following the death of eLearning, the time has come for learning organizations to invest in defining their standards for the digital learning product development.
You speak Klingon. I speak Dothraki. How will we ever design together? Read More »
