Understanding Today’s Empowered Learners
May 1st, 2018
To quote the famous bumper sticker, "Learning Happens!"
I use that quote all the time with the entry-level instructional designers I train. It's a reminder that people learn regardless of the training plans we put in place. And often they learn despite them.
Learning is innate to being human. It's part of our nature and we're never in a mode where we're not learning something. It doesn't mean that we always learn the right things or make the right adjustments to what we learn, but we are in a continual process ...
Here's part two of a recent presentation I did on letting learners drive. It presented foundational ideas on how to build engaging e-learning courses and then focused on tips that help make the courses more learner-centric.
In part one, we looked at 
Here's a presentation from a previous workshop on how to create interactive e-learning. For this workshop, I focused on how to create an engaging e-learning experience for the end-user.
Here are a few core points from the presentation on how to create engaging e-learning courses. In part 2, we'll look at 
That's probably not the right heading but it is the right position to take ...
In a recent post, I showed how I 
In a previous post, I shared 
Understanding the Image Blocks in Rise
Rise offers a number ...
What happens when you convert an old PowerPoint course into a Rise course?
The other day I found an older interactive scenario that was built in PowerPoint. I wanted to see what it would take to rebuild something similar in Rise. This isn't an uncommon situation for those who are trying to convert and update older courses with new technology.
Today, I'll show what I did to convert the course and a few production tips that helped me.
The Original Interactive Scenario
Back in the day, this was a pretty cool example of what ...
Whenever an organization needs to re-organize or make cuts to its staff, the training people are usually the first on the chopping block. There are a lot of arguments as to why that's the case but it's a reality for anyone who's been in the training industry for a while.
The good thing is that e-learning is still a hot part of the training industry, thus far many of us have been spared. But as the tools become more efficient and others are empowered to build their own training content, there will be ...
I came into rapid e-learning from the world of Authorware and Flash where building courses took a lot of time and cost a lot more money. But I saw the light in the early 2000s when I started using Articulate Presenter. Initially, I only used it to storyboard my course content and interactions in PowerPoint. That made it easier to share my ideas with our Flash developers.
However, I quickly realized I could build most of what we needed in PowerPoint. So why were we wasting money on expensive Flash development?
As soon ...
I get a lot of questions about free ways to share courses and portfolios. In previous posts, I shared t
Over the years, I've posted hundreds of tutorials using PowerPoint. Some of them to be updated. Today I am going to cover five ways to use PowerPoint as an image editor. This is great for quick image editing or for those who don't have other image editors on hand.
Save PowerPoint Content as an Image
Since we're talking about PowerPoint as an image editor, the first tip is that whatever you create in PowerPoint can be saved as an image.
I usually group the objects so it's one group. ...
Ten years ago, the e-learning industry was still mostly Flash-based. That meant organizations either had to buy e-learning courses, have them custom-built, or hire a Flash programmer to build them. The cost for doing so meant most organizations didn't have access to the world of online training.
That all changed when the PowerPoint-to-Flash tools like 
The good news is that now you can edit 
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