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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.
The most common e-learning courses follow a simple pattern: present information, click next. That's not learning. Three design shifts move courses away from click-and-forget content toward experiences where learners actually have to think.
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.
Learners don't remember everything you put in a course. They remember what their brains had room to process. Here's a quick look at cognitive load and three ways to design around it.
Kids jump right in and figure things out. Adults hold back, afraid to get it wrong. Here's how to design e-learning that gets adult learners past that hesitation and actually engaged.
Learners can spot a bad course fast: no relevance, no point, no polish. Here are three habits that guarantee yours misses the mark, and what to do instead.
Most e-learning developers aren't trained graphic designers. But you probably already sense which colors belong in a safety course versus a call center course. That intuition is your visual voice, and it's one of the most practical design tools you have.
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.
Making content interactive isn't the same as teaching people to make good decisions. Here's why so many e-learning courses stop short of the real work, and what it actually takes to build decision-making practice into your training.
The instinct to lock every screen in a course is understandable. If learners can skip freely, how do you know they learned anything? The answer is in the assessment, not the navigation.
You don't need a design degree to build good-looking courses. You need four principles and the discipline to apply them.
Three structured approaches that move learners from information to applied skill A lot of online courses are still mostly linear. That’s fine for annual compliance content with no real performance objective attached. But if you want real behavior change, you…
Skip the click-and-read information dump. Turn your content into a case study and build an e-learning course people actually remember.
Learn how to build a zoomable, interactive course using a single image and Storyline 360's zoom region feature. This tutorial walks you through the full process with a working example and free resources.
You can't force anyone to learn. But you can design a course that gives learners a real reason to try. Here's how to build motivation into your course from the start — before they ever click next.
