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Let us bust the last myth of the series – Myth 5: No need to waste time on summary screens. Just put some key points as a bullet list. Let us see what a summary means both from learners’, and an instructional designer’s perspective. For a learner – It enables you to reinforce the most important points …
Till now in the myth buster series, we have clarified the following myths – 1. Myth 1: Learning the e-learning tools are very difficult, hence creating an e-learning is difficult 2. Myth 2: Books are better than e-learning. My course cannot surpass a book 3. Myth 3: Just put the content with some relevant pictures …
In the last 2 posts we discussed about how to get over with the two common psychological challenges, that an instructional designer faces – Myth 1: Learning the e-learning tools are very difficult, hence creating an e-learning is difficult Myth 2: Books are better than e-learning. My course cannot surpass a book. Today we are …
In the last post, we discussed how to overcome the PPT phobia. Today, we shall clear the mist from the next myth. Myth 2: E-learning is a waste! Books are better, when it comes to learning. From a trainer’s point of view, this can prove to be a nightmare. Comparing e-learning to books, is like …
In this series of discussions, I shall try to iron out some of the common mis-beliefs related to e-learning courses and its production. Let’s start! With the advent of ‘Rapid E-learning’ methodologies, most of the authority has been passed on to instructional designers from coders. But does that mean that we (the instructional designers) should …
This is a re-share of one of my earlier posts on blogspot.com. Today we are going to discuss one of the basic experiences I get every day in instruction designing. We will learn this after having a cup of coffee (you may prefer tea). Don’t worry! I’m not going for a break… I was just …
While working in Storyline, often we come across a situation, where the user would like to have a takeaway; especially some sort of self made notes as a PDF. It is possible to export the data from Storyline in form of a PDF. Let us see how. Step 1: Preparing the PDF Generator. I used …
I was evaluating the features of Adobe Captivate 8, when I stumbled upon one of its in-built interactivity. It was a ‘Match the following’, which made a tracking line to its matching counterpart, when dragged and dropped on the same. A nice feature, that’s reminiscent of my school days. To rekindle it again, I tried …
Match the Following in Storyline: High School Style Read More »
Since I plunged into E-Learning, I have seen a tendency to move the content to call out as the easiest sought after solution. This not even creates a non-illustrious course, but clashes with the basics of simple e-learning rules. Today we shall discuss some key points about using call outs. 1. Keep it close and …
TOP CALLOUT SECRETS – that the govt. doesn’t want you to know Read More »
This post is a sequel to my earlier post on “Top 5 things that I (Re)-discovered during the BSOP Project“. Here we shall discuss 3 broad ways in which interactivity can be implemented. What is interactivity? In simple terms, it is an input from the user as a response to the content on the screen. …