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Locked course navigation is one of the most common e-learning frustrations, and it usually comes from good intentions gone wrong. This post breaks down why courses get locked and offers three practical ways to give learners more control without sacrificing your objectives.
Reality TV competitions have more to teach you than you'd think. From taking criticism to giving better feedback, here are five lessons from shows like Top Chef and Project Runway that can make you a sharper e-learning designer.
Spending months on needs analysis before building a single thing is its own kind of failure. Here's how to find the right level of analysis for each project.
You've probably worked with a subject matter expert who knew everything about a topic but couldn't explain it in a way a new learner could follow. That's not a knock on them. Teaching is a different skill from knowing, and most SMEs have never been trained to do it.
Every training request doesn't need to become a course. Here are three techniques for saving time and money while still delivering real value to your learners.
The ROI question comes up at every training conference. But the real challenge isn't calculating a number — it's knowing how to show that your work matters. Here are three approaches that actually work in practice.
Working with subject matter experts is one of the most challenging parts of building e-learning. The goal isn't to capture everything they know. It's to help them surface what learners actually need.
The easiest way to waste a training budget is to build a course nobody asked for. Most of us design around the content we have, not the problems learners face. The OREO framework gives you a practical way to flip that.
You put information on a screen. Your learner reads it. But what they walk away understanding isn't always what you meant. Here's how to design courses that close that gap.
I read an article about how Google's designers rethought their products, and it hit close to home. A lot of what tripped them up, sticking with consistent navigation, resisting the urge to fill white space, getting buy-in for change, are the same things we deal with building e-learning. Here's what I took from it.
Two kinds of courses, two different goals A compliance course tells employees what the rules are. A performance-based course gets them doing something they couldn’t do before. Those two types of courses call for completely different design approaches. When information…
Learners don't want a long course. They want the point, fast. Here's how to cut the bloat, ditch the distracting links, and build only what the situation actually calls for.
Locked course navigation is one of the most common requests in e-learning. But measuring screen time isn't the same as measuring learning. There's a better approach: shift from measuring exposure to measuring understanding.
Subject matter experts have what your course needs and not much time to give it. How you manage the relationship before, during, and after each meeting determines whether your project flows or stalls. Here are seven habits that make it easier.
Most of us finish a course, hand it off, and move on. But what happens after launch matters more than most developers realize. Here are four things worth doing before you start the next project.
