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 »
In the previous few post we discussed about moving information from Storyline to HTML/ PHP etc. 1. Storyline to PHP via FLASH 2. Storyline to PHP via JavaScript 3. Storyline to PHP via AJAX One may notice that in all these cases, the data flows one way, i.e., you can pass the information from Storyline …
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. …
In the previous posts related to Storyline and PHP interactivity, we have discussed about Storyline to PHP via FLASH Storyline to PHP via Javascript In the first method, dependency on FLASH coding increases. While in the second, there is a vulnerability, which leaves the process to learner manipulation. (No, I am not going to discuss …