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Reality TV’s Secret to Better E-Learning Courses
Reality TV competitions have more to teach you than you’d think. From taking criticism to giving better feedback, here are five lessons…
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When Needs Analysis Becomes a Trap and How to Escape It
Spending months on needs analysis before building a single thing is its own kind of failure. Here’s how to find the right…
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Help Subject Matter Experts Build Better Training
You’ve probably worked with a subject matter expert who knew everything about a topic but couldn’t explain it in a way a…
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How to Save Time and Money on Your E-Learning Projects
Every training request doesn’t need to become a course. Here are three techniques for saving time and money while still delivering real…
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How to Measure Training ROI in the Real World
The ROI question comes up at every training conference. But the real challenge isn’t calculating a number — it’s knowing how to…
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How Subject Matter Experts Help Build Great Courses
Working with subject matter experts is one of the most challenging parts of building e-learning. The goal isn’t to capture everything they…
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What a Cookie Business Can Teach You About E-Learning Design
The easiest way to waste a training budget is to build a course nobody asked for. Most of us design around the…
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Designing E-Learning When You Can’t See the Blank Stares
You put information on a screen. Your learner reads it. But what they walk away understanding isn’t always what you meant. Here’s…
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What Great Design Teams Get Right About Building Better Courses
I read an article about how Google’s designers rethought their products, and it hit close to home. A lot of what tripped…
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How to Create Performance-Based Training
Two kinds of courses, two different goals A compliance course tells employees what the rules are. A performance-based course gets them doing…