Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
Everything about creating online training and courses, from the thinking behind good instruction to the tools and tricks used to build it.
Why good courses fail for the wrong reasons Here’s a problem I’ve run into quite a few times. I spend three months working on a project. Right before it goes live, the proud customer invites her boss to look at…
Dialogue is one of the most powerful learning tools we have. But most e-learning courses skip it entirely. Here are three ways to add real conversation to your next course.
Most organizations starting an e-learning program jump to course-building before they've answered the harder questions. What type of course are you making? What outcome are you targeting, and does it matter to the learner taking it?
Your organization is investing in e-learning. At some point, someone will ask if it's worth the cost. Three concrete measures help you answer that question before it becomes a problem.
A course built entirely from a client's content and a subject matter expert's input is missing a perspective. Here's how interviewing learners, observing them at work, and piloting prototypes can close that gap.
A manager sends over a training request. Before you open your authoring tool, there's a more important question to answer. Are you solving the right problem?
Every e-learning designer eventually gets a request that's headed in the wrong direction. Saying nothing is the easy choice, but it's rarely the right one. Here's how to handle that tension and come out with a better course.
Think about what makes a great interactive experience online. It's rarely a course. But the principles behind the best ones translate directly into how we design e-learning.
I created the 3C model as a simple way to help my customers and junior instructional designers understand decision-making scenarios by challenging the learner and giving choices that produce consquences.