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Learning Solutions Magazine, a mainstay for anyone involved in the management, design, development, and implementation of e-Learning, was originally published in PDF format. We launched a new online edition of the magazine in November 2009. We have already moved the last five years of content to the new Learning Solutions Magazine site and are in the process of migrating all content there.

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11/02/2009 Design Strategies ARGs Leverage Intelligence: Improving Performance through Collaborative Play Brandon Carson, Dolly Joseph, and Enzo Silva Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) facilitate e-Learning while maintaining motivation. They are excellent tools to encourage coll . . .
10/26/2009 Development Strategies Catching the Google Wave Bill Brandon Google Wave has generated much discussion among educators and trainers in the last five months, as the potential of this comm . . .
10/19/2009 Management Strategies Culture Change and Learning Online: Online Social Networks Enable Individuals Algis Leveckis It’s not possible to introduce social networks for e-Learning without considering their effect on an organization’s total bus . . .
10/12/2009 Management Strategies Revolutionizing e-Learning: Innovation through Social Networking Tools Paul Signorelli Many e-Learning practitioners are looking for examples of ways in which instructional designers are using social media. There . . .
10/05/2009 Design Strategies Social Media in Learning David Wilkins A frequent question on Twitter and LinkedIn is, “Do social media have a place in learning?” Many trainers think the answer is . . .
09/28/2009 Design Strategies Brain Research, Instructional Strategies, and e-Learning: Making the Connection Christopher Stape Instructional strategies (sometimes called “pedagogies” or “andragogies”) and their supporting tactics are the heart of instr . . .
09/21/2009 Management Strategies Case Study: Team Development of Simulation-Based Application Training Alana Meeker and Michele Stouffer What do you do when you have a big application software training project, but limited time, limited access to SMEs, a global  . . .
09/14/2009 Management Strategies Virtual Worlds: Barriers to Their Business Value and Operability Algis Leveckis For several years, early adopters have been excited about using virtual worlds for e-Learning, but organizations have been sl . . .
08/31/2009 Design Techniques Instructional Design for End User Application Training Murali Padmanabham For instructional designers without a background or experience in application development, producing e-Learning for end-user  . . .
08/24/2009 Design Techniques Content Design for Performance-Oriented Reusable Blended Learning Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung and Armi Stephanie Treñas A complete and effective learning strategy for many organizations must include delivery of instruction through several modali . . .
08/17/2009 Development Techniques Using the Oracle UPK for Collaborative e-Learning Development: A Review Jean-Daniel Azuelos Using the Oracle UPK for Collaborative e-Learning Development: A Review by Jean-Daniel Azuelos Developing the trai . . .
08/10/2009 Design Strategies Five Strategies to Enhance Learner Motivation in e-Learning Design Joe McCleskey Five Strategies to Enhance Learner Motivation in e-Learning Design by Joe McCleskey This week’s article looks for  . . .
08/03/2009 Design Techniques Gestalt Your Graphics: Improving Instructional Graphics Connie Malamed Gestalt Your Graphics: Improving Instructional Graphics by Connie Malamed No more muddy graphics! That’s the messa . . .
07/27/2009 Design Strategies The Continuous Learning Environment: Surviving Learning Solution Discovery Gary Wise The Continuous Learning Environment: Surviving Learning Solution Discovery by Gary Wise One of the most significan . . .
07/20/2009 Design Strategies Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: A Traditional Institution Evolves Vanessa Goodrum Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: A Traditional Institution Evolves by Vanessa Goodrum An institution, with a strong . . .
07/13/2009 Management Strategies LETSI and the Past and Future of Interoperability Standards Aaron Silvers LETSI and the Past and Future of Interoperability Standards by Aaron Silvers Interoperability standards, of which  . . .
07/06/2009 Management Strategies The Challenges of Integrating Learning 2.0 Chris King Learning 2.0 has been attracting a lot of attention as a concept and as an approach to supporting learning. However, to be ef . . .
06/29/2009 Design Strategies Authoring Tools, Ghosts, and Scared Programmers Joe Ganci Technology and practice in e-Learning have been advancing quickly, and delivery modalities have become more diverse in the la . . .
06/22/2009 Management Strategies Fifteen Questions: Driving Next Year’s e-Learning Sales Revenue Margot Finley-Aguilera Fifteen Questions: Driving Next Year’s e-Learning Sales Revenue by Margot Finley-Aguilera Nobody likes recessions  . . .
06/15/2009 Management Strategies Developing Successful e-Learning Denise Link Developing Successful e-Learning by Denise Link For managers and others who are new to the field, implementing e-L . . .
06/08/2009 Management Strategies Revolutionize Your e-Learning Culture Lisa Hoffmann Revolutionize Your e-Learning Culture by Lisa Hoffmann People often overlook change management in the process of e . . .
06/01/2009 Design Strategies Bridging the Gap Between Facilitated and Non-Facilitated Online Courses Julie Radachy and Christa Ehmann Powers Bridging the Gap Between Facilitated and Non-Facilitated Online Courses by Julie Radachy and Christa Ehmann Powers  . . .
05/25/2009 Design Strategies Designing Effective Learning for Virtual Worlds Irene Boland This week, we have started expanding the coverage of Learning Solutions! Instead of a single feature article, future issues m . . .
05/11/2009 Management Strategies Customer Focus in Turbulent Times Kathy Napierala How can your internal learning teams provide extra value to your company and customers when the company is undergoing a game- . . .
05/04/2009 Design Strategies Real Learning, Virtual Worlds Koreen Olbrish With advances in technology and with pressure to reduce travel costs associated with training, many e-Learning professionals  . . .
04/13/2009 Management Strategies What’s Your E-Learning Strategy for Compliance Training? David Becker Compliance training is a huge application area for e-Learning. Yet much of this training has its basis in reaction rather tha . . .
03/30/2009 Development Techniques Making a Demonstration Video for E-Learning Use Tim Martin and Steve Haskin Video can be an excellent medium for truly rapid development of e-Learning content. However, not many e-Learning developers h . . .
03/23/2009 Management Strategies E-Learning Evolution Panorama: Annual Gathering 2009 Bill Brandon Hundreds of e-Learning professionals met in Orlando, Florida for The eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering 2009 Conference & Exp . . .
03/16/2009 Design Strategies Creating e-Learning for Lawyers Around the World Ronald Yu As the world becomes more and more interconnected, e-Learning producers find that they must be aware that their audience is n . . .
03/02/2009 Design Strategies Best Practices: Creating Successful Online Modules Michael Towse While it is possible to make e-Learning production complicated, the process itself is simple. This week’s article cuts to the . . .
02/23/2009 Design Strategies Social Networking: Bridging Formal and Informal Learning Clark Quinn The growth of social networking applications continues to accelerate, and this attracts attention from e-Learning designers a . . .
02/17/2009 Design Strategies Fiction Writer Tricks: A Tale of Two Courses Mike Dickinson Though it may not seem logical, instructional designers can learn a lot from creative writers about engaging learners. In the . . .
02/09/2009 Design Strategies E-Learning for Customers: How to Build a Better Mousetrap Holly MacDonald and Jennifer Smyth Customer training is an e-Learning application that is often overlooked when thinking about design processes. This week’s art . . .
01/19/2009 Management Strategies What's Ahead in 2009? Bill Brandon In 2009, recession (and possibly economic depression) will shape the e-Learning world far more than technology developments.  . . .
01/05/2009 Management Strategies Surviving 2009 Bill Brandon When the economy takes a turn for the worse, all organizations tighten their belts and adjust their priorities. This includes . . .
12/15/2008 Management Techniques Tools for Developing and Managing Web-based Training Projects Ray Miller Project management for e-Learning presents a special set of challenges that the usual schedules and plans do not cover. This  . . .
12/08/2008 Development Strategies Expand Your Career Horizons as an Adjunct Online Instructor Marie Larcara Adjunct instructors have long been important to institutions of higher education, and their numbers are growing. In fact, thi . . .
12/01/2008 Development Strategies Building Mobile e-Learning Anita Rosen As mobile devices take on computing capacity, they are becoming the “go to” support for more and more employees. This include . . .
11/24/2008 Management Strategies DevLearn 2008: Learning 2.0 On the Ground Bill Brandon DevLearn is always an exciting, fully-packed event. This year was no exception, with the Adobe Learning Summit and Training M . . .
11/10/2008 Management Strategies Moodle: A Low-Cost Solution for Successful e-Learning Margaret Martinez and Sheila Jagannathan Not too long ago, Moodle was a little-known content and learning management application supported by a tiny community. In the . . .
11/03/2008 Development Techniques Build a SCORM 1.2 Conformant Course with Lectora 2007 Nicholas Bird Lectora is a very popular tool for developing e-Learning content. Because many developers need to create courses that will in . . .
10/27/2008 Design Techniques Edge and Emotion – What e-Learning Programs Are Missing Paul Clothier and Carmen Taran Writers, speakers, and filmmakers know the power of the "hook" — the content that gets the audience engaged immediately. Why  . . .
10/20/2008 Design Strategies Learning Environment Design Catherine Lombardozzi As tools and modalities for learning have advanced in the last decade, instructional design (ID) has generally remained commi . . .
10/13/2008 Management Strategies The Learning Lab Development Process: From Idea to Actualization Erin Murphy Freedom, creativity, and experimentation are the ideal nutrients for ideas, but they are difficult to create and maintain in  . . .
10/06/2008 Design Techniques Best Practices for Polling in Web Conferences Darlene Christopher Effective use of polls during synchronous e-Learning events can increase participant engagement, help facilitator performance . . .
09/29/2008 Design Techniques A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Visual Design in e-Learning Shevy Levy and Jim Yupangco The visual pathway is enormously important to human learning, yet much of our attention in instructional design goes to text  . . .
09/22/2008 Management Strategies Understanding Today’s Learner Jane Hart Much of what we read about generational differences between learners in the Web 2.0 world is a bit removed from reality. This . . .
09/15/2008 Management Strategies Change 2.0: How Does e-Learning 2.0 Affect Organizational Culture? Mark Oehlert This week’s essay continues the discussion of e-Learning 2.0 and hurdles to its adoption in organizations. Change management  . . .
09/08/2008 Management Strategies Why e-Learning 2.0? Michele Martin and Sanjay Parker In this week’s installment of the series of essays supporting The Guild’s 360º Report on e-Learning 2.0, the authors provide  . . .
08/25/2008 Design Strategies What is e-Learning 2.0? Brent Schlenker This is the second article in a series on e-Learning 2.0. The series will end with publication of the Guild Research 360° Rep . . .
08/18/2008 Management Strategies Evaluation e-Learning 2.0: Getting Our Heads Around the Complexity Will Thalheimer Evaluating the effectiveness of e-Learning 1.0 has always been a challenge, and one which we have not always handled well. No . . .
08/11/2008 Management Strategies Overcoming the Challenges of Social Learning in the Workplace Shevy Levy and Jim Yupangco Web 2.0 technology brings many new pathways for learning, especially for collaboration. Yet, for all its promise, organizatio . . .
07/21/2008 Management Strategies Sales Quenchers Case Study: Delivering Learning Nuggets by Smartphone Robert Gadd Sales training organization Sales Quenchers decided to deliver its just-in-time reference and teaching materials via the one  . . .
07/14/2008 Management Strategies On-the-Spot Learning: Coming Soon to Your Location? David Metcalf, Judy Brown, and David Rogers With the advent of mobile phones that can determine their location, scan and read bar codes, run software, and easily connect . . .
06/30/2008 Management Strategies Mainstreaming Mobile Learning Ellen Wagner Discussion of Mobile Learning (m-Learning) has been going on for almost ten years, and we only now seem to be approaching act . . .
06/23/2008 Design Techniques Eight Challenges to Template-Based e-Learning Creation Graham Jack E-Learning producers continually search for methods that will speed up development and hold down costs. One such method, with . . .
06/16/2008 Management Strategies Video, Pinnacle, and Articulate Team Up for Dealership Training Marisa Dodson Few environments are tougher to do training in than auto dealerships. Every minute sitting in class is a lost sales opportuni . . .
06/09/2008 Management Strategies Improve Your Bottom Line! Careful Consideration of Learning Technologies Pays Heather Brooks Deciding which technologies and which products to acquire for e-Learning is becoming more difficult as the number of choices  . . .
06/02/2008 Management Strategies Making the Grade: Synchronous e-Learning Tools Support Multiple Functions Jason Shaeffer Many readers are already using synchronous e-Learning tools to deliver instruction live and online. However, there are many o . . .
05/19/2008 Design Techniques Do I Have Your Attention? Design Practices Help Learners Engage Kevin Wilcoxon Effective e-Learning design practices must do more than just package content for delivery. They must result in products that  . . .
05/12/2008 Design Techniques Visual Design for e-Learning Video Production: An Introduction Tim Martin Video is the original rapid technology for supporting learning. As video becomes easier to produce, more common on the Web, a . . .
05/05/2008 Development Techniques First Look: Adobe Upgrades Acrobat Connect Pro to Version 7 Jacquie Beck Everything changes, including software. In this case, Adobe is releasing Version 7 of its Web conferencing and training solut . . .
04/28/2008 Management Strategies How Fast Can You Implement an Enterprise Knowledge Management System? Billy Biggs Many organizations use project management techniques to organize e-Learning development efforts. However, traditional project . . .
04/21/2008 Management Techniques Decision Trees for Selecting an e-Learning Strategy - A Case Study Cyrelle Gerson Identifying an e-Learning strategy that matches an appropriate delivery method to the learners can be a very large challenge. . . .
04/14/2008 Design Techniques Once Upon a Keyboard: Designing Stories Into e-Learning Karen Scott Everyone loves stories. In informal learning, stories are one of the main ways that people share experience and transfer expe . . .
04/07/2008 Development Strategies Developing e-Learning Modules Across Languages and Cultures Mary Haskett Ideal Innovations, Inc. won a software infrastructure project in Iraq, with e-Learning support for enduser training. Working  . . .
03/31/2008 Design Strategies Teacher Presence: Using Introductory Videos in Online and Hybrid Courses Paula Jones, Kim Naugle, and MaryAnn Kolloff E-Learning is always about people, not technology. This means that whatever helps learners to connect with the content and ea . . .
03/24/2008 Development Techniques Preparing for and Developing Interactive Content in Captivate 3.0 Nicholas Bird Adobe Captivate is one of the most used tools among eLearning Guild members. While it offers many features, and great flexibi . . .
03/17/2008 Management Techniques Evaluating e-Learning: The Three-Pass Approach Marc Gamble "You can't tell a book by its cover," goes the old saying. Can you tell good e-Learning from the vendor's Web site or . . .
03/10/2008 Development Techniques Exclusive: ToolBook for iPhone Sneak Peek Tom Hall The iPhone has been making headlines since its release nine months ago, but there has been no practical way to use it for e-L . . .
03/03/2008 Management Techniques Improve Outsourced E-Learning Quality With Consistent Standards Evelyn Jackson Any e-Learning organization should spend time and effort to identify ways to improve the service it provides to its customers . . .
02/25/2008 Design Techniques Engaging the E-Learner: Interaction is Not Education Kathleen Iverson Although we frequently speak of interaction and engagement as if they were synonyms, in point of fact it is possible to have  . . .
02/11/2008 Design Strategies Make Sure Your Media Makes Sense and Cents Patti Shank It is becoming absurdly easy to add media — especially video — to e-Learning, but a designer still needs to exercise judgment . . .
01/28/2008 Management Strategies Nine Trends That Will Shape e-Learning in 2008 Bill Brandon As we begin 2008, it would be a good idea to look ahead to see whether there are forces at work that will affect how we produ . . .
12/17/2007 Design Strategies Threaded Discussion Tips for Designers Clarence J. Bouchat Distance education presents many challenges to the instructor. Threaded discussions, or forums, are a powerful tool, but ther . . .
12/10/2007 Design Strategies The Next Generation of Instructional Designers Reuben Tozman As the world changes around them, instructional designers continue to approach their jobs in the same ways that they have for . . .
12/03/2007 Development Techniques Product Review: Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Jacqueline Beck As high-speed internet access and computing power increase, more organizations are turning to collaborative and synchronous s . . .
11/19/2007 Management Strategies Taking a Big Gulp from the Firehose: DevLearn 2007 Bill Brandon This year’s DevLearn was one for the record books, with more attendees, a significantly larger Expo, more presenters, and mor . . .
10/15/2007 Design Strategies Virtual World-building: Designing Environments for Learners Bill Brandon Continuing last week’s article, here are three examples of ways in which practitioners are employing virtual worlds in their  . . .
10/08/2007 Design Techniques Give Your e-Learning Some (Second) Life: Simulation Made Easy Bill Brandon Simulation and immersive training are topics of great interest in e-Learning today, but many practitioners believe the cost a . . .
09/27/2007 Design Strategies Good Beginnings: Leveraging the Strengths and Avoiding the Weaknesses of the e-Learning Medium Chris Stape Sometimes, whether an e-Learning application works or not comes down to whether the designer did or did not do some very simp . . .
09/17/2007 Design Strategies The Death of the Page Turner: Deal With the Application First Mike Sullivan and Michael Gardner Many designers and subject matter experts default to “knowledge first, application last” as the pattern for e-Learning. But i . . .
09/10/2007 Design Techniques Tools Training: An Unconventional Design Rupen Sharma Everyone knows designers should “think out of the box.” This is never as important as when a tight deadline has your back to  . . .
08/27/2007 Design Strategies Learning Object-Based e-Learning: Content Design, Methods, and Tools Yonnie Chyung As an instructional designer, you may find yourself challenged to create e-Learning based on learning objects that support pr . . .
08/13/2007 Design Strategies Social Networking Applications, Learner Roadmaps, and Rapid Simulations Bill Brandon, Kelly Kirk, Matthew Masci This week, we present three informative articles. Find out what's new in social software. Learn how to provide students w . . .
08/06/2007 Management Strategies Meeting Training and Learning Challenges with Reusable Learning Objects Jacqueline D. Beck and Bobbe Baggio After almost ten years of discussion, modular e-Learning based on learning objects is coming into wider acceptance and use. T . . .
07/30/2007 Management Strategies When Information Technology and Instructional Design Meet Cheryl Johnson It seems there are so many places in e-Learning development where learning strategy and information technology run headlong i . . .
07/23/2007 Management Strategies What’s in a Name for Your LMS? Mary Bertun “How to name a course” is one of those seemingly trivial topics, until you implement a LMS for a large organization and disco . . .
07/16/2007 Development Techniques ReadyGo Web Course Builder: A User’s Review and Experience Steve Mirsky Many organizations are interested in finding tools for rapid e-Learning development, but reviews of these tools are few and f . . .
07/09/2007 Design Strategies The Instructional Design of Learning Objects Joanne Mowat Learning objects have been a topic of interest for several years, but until now it has been difficult to locate information a . . .
06/25/2007 Management Strategies E-Learning and Unions Greg Kearsley One of the traditional activities of labor unions has always been the professional education and skills development of their  . . .
06/18/2007 Management Strategies Developing a Distance Learning e-Portfolio System Victoria Walker In higher education, allowing for reflection on experience by the student is an increasingly important feature of learning de . . .
06/11/2007 Development Techniques A Courseware Authoring Tool Evolves: ToolBook Instructor 9 Tom Hall ToolBook has been an important part of the e-Learning development landscape for the past two decades. However, “long-standing . . .
06/04/2007 Management Strategies From Classroom to Computer: A Case Study of Drastic Change (Part 2) Mary Carpenter This week’s article continues the story of how a financial services company moved the training program for field agents from  . . .
05/21/2007 Management Strategies From Classroom to Computer: A Case Study of Drastic Change Mary Carpenter Many training groups are facing the challenge of moving their instruction from the classroom to online or blended formats. Im . . .
05/14/2007 Design Techniques Using RWD uPerform to Rapidly Design and Develop e-Learning Nicholas Bird In traditional practice, the storyboard is a key tool for communication between e-Learning design team members and Subject Ma . . .
05/07/2007 Development Techniques Articulate 3.0: A Tool to Leverage a One Person e-Learning Department Mike Dickinson Looking for an e-Learning authoring tool that is simple to use and that won’t complicate your life as a oneperson department? . . .
04/30/2007 Design Strategies Use e-Learning Tools to Build Doorways to the World Lora Davis and Walter Thompson As we gain experience with new learning modalities, we have come to realize that most learning takes place outside of the for . . .
04/23/2007 Management Strategies Learning Together: The eLearning Guild Annual Conference Bill Brandon Almost 1,000 people participated in the Guild’s 2007 Annual Gathering held in Boston April 10 to 13 — over 30% growth in  . . .
04/16/2007 Management Strategies The e-Learning Department of One Greg Kearsley Many e-Learning professionals find themselves working single-handed. Though the challenges to being a Department of One can b . . .
04/09/2007 Management Strategies Evaluating Training ROI with a Learning Intelligence System Mark Place For many years, industrial organizations have used statistical methods and disciplines such as Six Sigma to identify the root . . .
04/02/2007 Design Strategies Blending Old and New Technologies to Become a Learning Partner Lora Davis and Joy Marie DeBlock Professional development and individual skill improvement are two of the most important reasons for doing sales training — if . . .
03/26/2007 Design Strategies A.D.D.I.E. Meets the Kirkpatrick Four: A 3-Act Play Tita Theodora Beal Designing evaluation for e-Learning often happens only at the end of the development process, but it really should take place . . .
03/19/2007 Design Techniques Lesson Planning: The Missing Link in e-Learning Course Design Vince Cyboran There is a “gap” in the e-Learning design process, especially for less experienced designers. With experience, bridging the d . . .
03/12/2007 Design Strategies Five Interactive Ways to Improve Synchronous e-Learning Delivery Marc Gamble Synchronous e-Learning (the “virtual classroom”) seems similar to instruction face-toface, but the similarity is deceptive. B . . .
03/05/2007 Design Strategies Creative Design Solutions for Three Training Projects (Part 2) Tom Sehmel In last week’s article, the author presented e-Learning that uses audio scenarios to break out of the tedium of “cookie-cutte . . .
02/26/2007 Design Strategies Creative Design Solutions for Three Training Projects (Part 1) Tom Sehmel Do standard templates and rigid development processes have you feeling like you are stamping out identical parts instead of c . . .
02/12/2007 Design Techniques Managing the Unmanageable Subject Matter Expert Stacie L. Comolli and Gustavo E. Prestera One of the enduring challenges in e-Learning is making effective use of subject matter experts (SMEs). Designers must rely on . . .
02/05/2007 Development Techniques Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS B.J. Schone The typical e-Learning project requires so much time, and can be so labor-intensive, that productivity is always a concern of . . .
01/29/2007 Development Strategies Adobe Captivate 2 Review: Rapid Flash-based Learning Content Development Paul Clothier Captivate is an enduring item in the e-Learning development toolkit. The lastest revision continues to move toward expanding  . . .
01/22/2007 Design Techniques Rapid e-Learning Design with Microsoft InfoPath Maria Leggett While much attention has been paid to speeding up development processes, not much has been said about facilitating the critic . . .
01/08/2007 Design Strategies Blended Assessment in Small to Medium-sized Classes Eugene F. M. O’Loughlin & Steven J. Osterlind Educators face a dilemma when they attempt to determine the best method to assess learning. The considerations become more co . . .
12/18/2006 Management Strategies Looking Both Ways: The eLearning Guild After Five Years Bill Brandon It’s always a good idea to stop once in a while, take time to celebrate our progress, and try to anticipate what comes next.  . . .
12/11/2006 Management Strategies Buried Alive: The Online Learning Content Challenge Eric R Parks Content is king, but mastering content is also our greatest challenge. Content changes and grows and, over time, maintaining  . . .
12/04/2006 Management Strategies Discovering and Enacting the "What's Next" in K-12 Education Gordon Freedman Although often overlooked by government policy makers, undervalued by leaders in corporate learning, and overshadowed by high . . .
11/27/2006 Design Techniques Using Radio Production Techniques to Improve Synchronous Communication Marc Gamble Many synchronous e-Learning designs assume that online instruction is primarily a visual medium. This may be due to the depen . . .
11/20/2006 Development Techniques How We Did It: A Complete Web-based Course Proposal Sandra West Moving an organization toward offering education and training online can be a change-management challenge. This week’s articl . . .
11/13/2006 Management Strategies How to Outsource e-Learning Content Development Successfully Sarah Teo & Peggy Pang As e-Learning organizations outsource more content development work, they expose themselves to additional risks. Contracting, . . .
11/06/2006 Design Strategies Webinar Strategies That Maximize Learning Scott Wachter Many organizations are beginning to use the synchronous e-Learning environment for the first time, in order to deliver instru . . .
10/30/2006 Design Strategies Beyond Self-teaching Online: Using the Threaded Discussion in Distance Education Clarence J. Bouchat How can you bring the benefits of high-quality classroom delivery — where face-to-face interactive discussion and deliberatio . . .
10/23/2006 Design Strategies Crafting the Total Learner Experience: Preventing Data Corruption in Instructional Messaging Brandon Carson All too often, the first thing a course designer does is to make a content outline. However, all too often, the learners are  . . .
10/16/2006 Management Techniques Evolution of an e-Learning Developers Guide: Do You Need One? Mike Dickinson In Part 1 of this series, the author shared the basics of creating an effective e-Learning Developers Guide, a set of standar . . .
10/09/2006 Management Strategies Technology Trends: e-Learning 2.0 Anita Rosen Once the technology pundits began talking about Web 2.0, it was only a matter of time before e-Learning picked up the same nu . . .
10/02/2006 Management Strategies Open Source: A New Way to Solve an Old Dilemma Margaret Martinez E-Learning producers are responsible for more than content and code. Every project involves concerns about budget, licensing, . . .
09/25/2006 Management Techniques Evolution of an e-Learning Developers Guide Mike Dickinson One tool that can make an e-Learning director or manager’s life much simpler is a set of standards that guides the designers, . . .
09/18/2006 Management Strategies Microsoft Learning's Portfolio Design Model: Design Once, Deliver to Many Kim Field Process and staffing are two of the most difficult issues in e-Learning production, especially in largescale publishing opera . . .
09/11/2006 Development Strategies Mobile Learning in Japan: Why the Future has Already Arrived in Asia Michael Kato and Vincent Ricci In the West, for the past decade, we have been thinking about mobile learning and about using games to teach. In Asia, and es . . .
08/28/2006 Design Strategies The XML e-Learning Revolution: Is Your Production Model Holding You Back? Doug Wallace and Anthony Levinson E-Learning development since 1997 has mostly been an HTML-based process. However, this works against easy re-use of content a . . .
08/21/2006 Development Strategies Rapid e-Learning: Another View on All Things Fast Anita Rosen “Rapid e-Learning” is one of the potentially more confusing concepts to new e-Learning producers because there is little cons . . .
08/14/2006 Management Strategies Certification Drives Performance-based Learning John Zonneveld Sales training is one of the most critical and demanding applications for e-Learning. This is even truer when a company’s suc . . .
08/07/2006 Development Techniques Using Lectora to Repurpose e-Learning Content - Can It Really Deliver? Len Perkins There are so many content authoring systems for e-Learning that it is difficult to list them all, let alone review them. Howe . . .
07/31/2006 Design Strategies Be Constructive: Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis as Constructivist Learning Tools Joyce Seitzinger As social software (blogs, Podcasts, and wikis are just three examples) matures, it presents more opportunities for learners  . . .
07/10/2006 Development Techniques Tips for Developing Accessible e-Learning with Flash David Comeaux As e-Learning producers become more sensitive to the needs of disabled learners, and as the amount of Flash-based content in  . . .
06/26/2006 Design Strategies Bridging the Formal/Informal Gap: Blended Learning Evolves Clive Shepherd Many e-Learning designers have come to think of blended learning as a strategy only for situations in which some of the skill . . .
06/19/2006 Design Strategies Designing for Mobile Learning: Clark and Mayer's Principles Applied Guy L. Levert The eLearning Guild has been covering mobile learning since our first issues four years ago. During that time, m-Learning has . . .
06/12/2006 Development Strategies The Online Language Environments Tool: Technology Support for Language Instruction Garry Forger Language teaching is an extraordinarily complex process, requiring support from fluent speakers, frequent practice sessions,  . . .
06/05/2006 Management Strategies Shhhhhh! E-Learning Production Secret Revealed: Emotional Intelligence Patricia Franklin & Joshua Freedman As an e-Learning producer, you live in the world of technology much of the time. Yet your success depends on other people — y . . .
05/22/2006 Development Techniques Make Learners (and Editors) Happy With Small Flash 8 Files Thomas Toth Even with high-speed internet connections as common as they are, it is still important to keep Flash file sizes small. By sto . . .
05/15/2006 Development Strategies Mashups, SOAP, and Services: Welcome to Web Hybrid e-Learning Applications Gary Woodill & Carlos Oliveira We often see or hear predictions from experts and analysts about the direction e-Learning is headed. In fact, there is no sin . . .
04/17/2006 Development Techniques An Internet-based Laboratory for Distant-Learning Engineering Students Dogan Ibrahim Simulations can be effective ways to teach some aspects of science and engineering topics, but they have their limits. In par . . .
04/10/2006 Development Techniques Managing Project Problems the Easy Way: Make Your e-Learning Perfect Mike Richards Issue management is a vital, but seldom-discussed, part of e-Learning development. Done right, the client pays little attenti . . .
04/03/2006 Design Strategies Making it Matter to the Learner: e-Motional e-Learning Clark Quinn Why is it so difficult to engage learners in the learning experience? Perhaps our designs are missing key ingredients that co . . .
03/27/2006 Design Techniques Put the Learning Back in e-Learning: Making it Meaningful, Relevant, and Engaging Gus Prestera In this week’s article, a hard and embarrassing question led the author to insights about making e-Learning worthy of a learn . . .
03/20/2006 Design Strategies Getting Real Results: How to Add Dramatic Power to Your e-Learning Tita Theodora Beal One of the most challenging assignments in e-Learning is to develop a simulation that is both effective and engaging. Fortuna . . .
03/13/2006 Design Strategies Asynchronous Learning and Adult Motivation: Catching Fog in a Gauze Bag Christina Fisher Writers and speakers sometimes express a great deal of angst over the low e-Learning completion rates reported in various stu . . .
03/07/2006 Development Techniques Making PDFs Accessible: New Directions, New Possibilities (Part 2) Debra Ruh In Part 1 of this article, you discovered good practices for development of PDF files that screen reader technology can proce . . .
02/27/2006 Development Strategies So, Why Does Anyone Still Use Authorware? Mike Richards For two decades, Authorware has held the lion’s share of the e-Learning authoring market. Criticisms of the program’s dated u . . .
02/20/2006 Development Techniques Making PDF's Accessible: New Directions, New Possibilities (Part 1) Debra Ruh Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a near-universal content container because of its superior display features, crossp . . .
02/13/2006 Management Strategies Taking an Overlapping and Sequenced Project Approach to Training Development Tom Sehmel Project management makes a tremendous difference in the value delivered to an organization by the team that designs and devel . . .
02/06/2006 Management Strategies Integration of e-Learning and Knowledge Management Desiree Tryloff & Viki Bowen Portals, Communities of Practice, mentoring, knowledge management, and e-Learning architectures are among the hottest topics  . . .
01/30/2006 Design Strategies Providing Support Through Outlook - Takes the Readiness Where the Users Are Mahnaz Javid, Ross Hight, Don Zwicker Many e-Learning professionals think mainly in terms of delivering instruction in stand-alone packages, such as the traditiona . . .
01/23/2006 Development Strategies Templates, Reusability, Future-Proofing, and the Technology Side of Rapid e-Learning Kendrick Abell Are you building today’s e-Learning with yesterday’s approach to development? In an era when business demands speedy response . . .
01/16/2006 Development Strategies A Team of One: Rapid e-Learning Environment at Break-neck Speeds Stephanie Sanford Producing e-Learning is a challenge even with a complete team of writers, artists, developers, and instructional designers. B . . .
01/09/2006 Design Techniques Rapid e-Learning: Software Reusability and Rapid Production Process (Part 4) Ray Jimenez The decision to use a rapid e-Learning approach in development is more a matter of meeting management requirements than of me . . .
12/19/2005 Design Techniques Avoiding Assessment Mistakes that Compromise Competence and Quality Patti Shank, PhD Assessment of learning is one of those elements of design that many practitioners talk about but find difficult to do well (o . . .
12/12/2005 Development Strategies E-Learning As You Like It: From Print to Desktop to PDA Using One Set of Content Wendy Brunner & John Heinstein Two important promises of the e-Learning “brand” are consistent content and flexible delivery. These are not always simple to . . .
12/05/2005 Design Techniques The Design Document: Your Blueprint for e-Learning Standards and Consistency Monique Donahue In any project, it is normal to document the specifications and the scope of work. But in e-Learning projects, designers must . . .
11/28/2005 Design Strategies e-Learning Goes Retro with the Scavenger Hunt — An Old Game Up to New Tricks Anna Belyaev, Ernie Brescia & Robert Dick E-Learning designers frequently look for ways to make their productions more engaging through technology tricks, but in fact  . . .
11/14/2005 Design Techniques Rapid e-Learning Design and Development: Alternative Architectures (Part 3) Ray Jimenez Depending on the nature of your e-Learning content and the outcomes you are attempting to achieve, the basic e-Learning archi . . .
11/07/2005 Design Strategies Efficiency in e-Learning: Proven Instructional Methods for Faster, Better, Online Learning Ruth Colvin Clark & Frank Nguyen Instructional designers face the constant challenge of balancing many considerations affecting learning. Of all the guideline . . .
10/31/2005 Development Strategies A Resuable Article on Reusable Components Jim Pellerin In our constant search to control the time and cost of e-Learning creation, we often borrow concepts from other disciplines.  . . .
10/24/2005 Design Techniques The Guild’s Example Emporium™ Showcases e-Learning Design - Part 2 Heidi Fisk One of the most powerful ways to learn is by seeing how other people solved a problem that we are personally struggling with. . . .
10/17/2005 Design Techniques Rapid e-Learning: Introduction to e-Learning Architecture (Part 2) Ray Jimenez While there are many theories that tell e-Learning practitioners what to do in order to create effective e-Learning, and much . . .
10/10/2005 Design Strategies Hidden Disabilities: Is Your e-Learning Fully Section 508 Compliant? Amy Kellogg Many designers think of Section 508 compliance only in terms of the visible disabilities. However, there are many other condi . . .
10/03/2005 Design Techniques Rapid e-Learning Design and Development (Part 1) Ray Jimenez One of the constant challenges in designing and producing e-Learning is that there is never enough time: never enough time to . . .
09/26/2005 Development Techniques Automate Courseware Development with XML and Microsoft Excel™ Fábio Martinelli Duarte Nearly every e-Learning designer, developer, and project manager is under pressure to complete application development “yeste . . .
09/19/2005 Management Techniques Hard Learned e-Enterprise Course Pointers Sally Northam and Donna Sauls Educational institutions are rapidly adding distance learning to their offerings that is supported by online “e-Enterprise” a . . .
09/12/2005 Development Techniques Form Follows Function: How to Design e-Learning Templates for PowerPoint-to-Flash Products Paul Clothier Perhaps no tool for creating e-Learning is more frequently used — or more frequently disparaged — than PowerPoint. Some devel . . .
08/29/2005 Design Techniques Section 508: Your Questions Answered Amy Kellogg Compliance with accessibility regulations (known as Section 508 in the United States) can be one of the biggest challenges to . . .
08/22/2005 Design Techniques The Guild’s Example Emporium™ Showcases e-Learning Design - Part 1 Heidi Fisk Participants at Guild events always tell us that what they want to see more of in future programs is, “More examples of good  . . .
08/15/2005 Development Strategies Faster, Better, Cheaper: Improve Corporate e-Learning Content Management with MERLOT Joanne Mowat If there is one constant in the life of the e-Learning professional, it is the search for better methods that will reduce cos . . .
08/08/2005 Development Techniques Headaches: Making e-Learning Work When Technology Gets in Your Way Mark Murrell It would be a wonderful world if everything always went our way, but in e-Learning that seldom happens. There are almost alwa . . .
08/01/2005 Management Techniques Selecting, Integrating, and Extending Learning Management Systems, Part 2 Camille Price, Amy Stoker Selection and implementation of a Learning Management System (LMS) can be an expensive, time consuming undertaking. In spite  . . .
07/25/2005 Design Strategies Applying Multiple Intelligence Theory to Adult Online Instructional Design Janice Watrous-McCabe e-Learning designers are always searching for ways to improve learning outcomes. Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intellig . . .
07/18/2005 Design Strategies An Introduction to m-Learning: An Interview with Ellen Wagner Paul Clothier M-Learning, e-Learning delivered through mobile computational devices, is one of several “next big things” that Guild members . . .
07/11/2005 Management Techniques Selecting, Integrating, and Extending Learning Management Systems Camille Price, Amy Stoker Implementing a learning management system is as much a challenge as any other enterprise-level initiative. While there are mo . . .
06/27/2005 Development Techniques Combining Authoring Tools for Best Results Joseph Ganci Developing e-Learning requires the use of many tools for many different specialized tasks. However, knowing which tools work  . . .
06/20/2005 Management Strategies e-Learning Foreign Languages: A Proposed Model for a Greek Institute Rosemary Skordoulis As European markets change in response to new technologies and new political realities, traditional institutions that offer i . . .
06/13/2005 Management Techniques Using Microsoft Word for Rapid Storyboard Development Cynthia Holmes-Radner Storyboards are a critical element in the design and development of e-Learning applications. In organizations that develop ma . . .
06/06/2005 Design Techniques Top Tips from Top Designers Jimenez, Kramer, Miller, Orefice, and Rogers One of the key advantages of belonging to a Community of Practice like The eLearning Guild is the potential for tapping into  . . .
05/23/2005 Design Strategies The Nine Too-Often-Neglected Principles of e-Learning Design Ty Johnson While we e-Learning designers can cite a wide range of guidelines for our work, the truth is that many of these values are, a . . .
05/16/2005 Design Techniques Four Steps to effective Virtual Classroom Training Ruth Clark Research now shows that traditional classrooms and virtual classrooms (synchronous e-Learning) are about equally effective ov . . .
05/09/2005 Management Techniques e-Learning Process Improvement: How's Your Content Production Working? Bill Brandon In e-Learning, we place a great amount of attention on the design process, and far less attention on the production process.  . . .
04/25/2005 Design Strategies Use of Characters in e-Learning Courses Shailesh Shilwant It is becoming a common practice to use characters in e-Learning courses to increase learner engagement and overall content r . . .
04/18/2005 Development Techniques A Guide to Captioning Windows Media and QuickTime Using Subtitle Workshop Ellen Meiselman With the increasing demand for accessibility, many e-Learning developers find that they must provide captions for any video i . . .
04/04/2005 Management Strategies Curriculum Update: Converting Instructor-led Classes to a Blended Learning Solution Karen Scott Large e-Learning projects can seem daunting, but there are sound ways to successfully tackle them – even without resources. I . . .
03/29/2005 Development Strategies Insights: e-Learning Gurus, Challenges, and Solutions Bill Brandon What do you get when you bring six of the top e-Learning experts on stage and ask them to respond to tough questions from 500 . . .
03/21/2005 Development Techniques Pop-up Blockers: An e-Learning Perspective Mark Murrell As Web advertisers began to use more and more “pop-up” and “pop-under” windows to get the attention of browser users, sharewa . . .
03/07/2005 Development Techniques Articulate™ Presenter: Plan, Package and Publish PowerPoint Presentations for e-Learning Lora Davis With the rapid growth of e-Learning, many development teams have simply continued to use their old familiar tools — MS Word a . . .
02/14/2005 Development Techniques Creating Great Stories to Enhance e-Learning Karen Westmoreland Luce Stories offer an effective and low-cost way to immerse learners in complex experiences, and to help them relate content to pr . . .
02/07/2005 Design Strategies Leading Through Design: Five Guidelines for e-Learning Success Bill Brandon e-Learning designers must often make decisions without all the information they would like to have. Research offers many lead . . .
01/31/2005 Development Techniques Fast-track Your e-Learning Video Development: Targeting Production Needs Analysis Laura Levy As video editing tools and bandwidth become more available, digital video is becoming an indispensable part of e-Learning. Ho . . .
01/24/2005 Management Strategies How to Become an e-Learning Guru: It's a Breeze... Or Is It? (Part 2) Russell McNally Each new technology, and every application, has its best use. Unfortunately, it is now always easy to discern just how this b . . .
01/17/2005 Management Strategies Building an e-Learning Strategy that Keeps Pace with Business Dynamics Wayne Goldstein e-Learning is properly understood as part of overall business process, and not simply as an end in itself. This calls for add . . .
01/10/2005 Management Strategies Creating a "Premium Blend": 20 Questions and a Case Study Gina A. Orefice Blended learning may be the next focus of process re-engineering to affect all e-Learning professionals and require developme . . .
12/14/2004 Management Strategies Delivering e-Learning on the Web in 2005 — Choices, Tips, and Gotchas Joseph Ganci As we move into a new year, most of us find ourselves doing a certain amount of crystal-ball gazing, and some of the future i . . .
12/06/2004 Management Strategies An End-of-Year Conversation with e-Learning Leaders... What's On Their Minds These Days? Patti Shank, PhD, CPT If there is a universally recognized theme in e-Learning, it must be the preoccupation many practitioners have with change, w . . .
11/22/2004 Design Strategies Using Digital Experiential Learning to Deliver Corporate Policy Training Dan McNeill Engaging is in the eye of the beholder, not the eye of the designer, and sometimes our assumptions about what "real" training . . .
11/02/2004 Management Techniques How to Use the Guild Web site to Solve e-Learning Problems Bill Brandon A community of practice is bound together by collaborative learning and shared problems as much as by a sense of purpose and  . . .
10/25/2004 Development Techniques e-Learning with Screens Flash MX 2004 Professional: Now You’re Cooking! Paul Clothier Slide screens give the developer a convenient way to create and organize sequential content in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Profe . . .
10/18/2004 Management Techniques Increasing Training Compliance Rates at Children's Hospitals with e-Learning: Case Studies Kristy Johnson Few industries have as much mandated training as health care, and the requirements for pediatric care facilities are even mor . . .
10/11/2004 Management Strategies More than Compliance: Accessible e-Learning that Makes a Difference Martie Buzzard One e-Learning user in five has some type of disability or need that can interfere with the use of a computer. Accessible e-L . . .
10/04/2004 Management Strategies Simulations and Games: Revisiting Their Strategic Value Allison Rossett Games and simulations get a lot of attention in the e-Learning world. Either can improve learning in certain cases, but they  . . .
09/27/2004 Design Strategies Item Analysis for Online Tests via e-Enterprise Applications Sally Northam Testing is an area of e-Learning that is frequently overlooked or given scant attention. Yet tests provide valuable informati . . .
09/20/2004 Management Techniques The Secret to Building and Keeping a Happy Development Team Rhonda Harmon What would you say if someone told you there are a few simple and proven strategies that you can use to build a successful de . . .
09/07/2004 Design Strategies Can They Do It in the Real World? Designing for Transfer of Learning Patti Shank The purpose of e-Learning is to improve the accomplishment of real tasks in the real world. Transfer is the key to achieving  . . .
08/30/2004 Development Techniques Repurposing PowerPoint: Authorware's New Converter Joseph Ganci Microsoft PowerPoint has become a ubiquitous storyboarding and prototyping tool for e-Learning development. In addition, many . . .
08/23/2004 Management Techniques Rapid Course Development: You Can Make It Happen Sally Allen A paper-based storyboard may not be the best way to communicate about interactivity. Storyboard and prototype creation adds a . . .
08/16/2004 Development Techniques e-Learning with Screens in Flash MX 2004 Professional Paul Clothier One of the most important trends in tools for developing e-Learning has been the adoption of methods and technology to make a . . .
08/09/2004 Development Techniques Creating Online Tests with Blackboard Sally Northam Online testing is often used to evaluate learning, particularly in distance education. Online testing construction is similar . . .
08/02/2004 Management Techniques Utilizing an Integrated Best Practice Marketing Strategy for e-Learning Success Tammy Spangler Every prospective e-Learner wonders, “What’s in it for me?” as they consider online instruction. At the same time, every prod . . .
07/26/2004 Management Techniques How to Become an e-Learning Guru: It’s a Breeze... Or Is It? (Part 1) Russ McNally Few products have stirred up as much discussion recently as Macromedia’s Breeze. Breeze is a complex family of products with  . . .
07/19/2004 Development Techniques Building e-Learning with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Thomas Toth As e-Learning matures, the tools that developers use to create content tailored to the demands of the online environment are  . . .
07/12/2004 Management Techniques Behind the Screens: A Look at The eLearning Guild's Online Forum Series Karen Hyder Many organizations are looking toward synchronous delivery of e-Learning -- using software tools on the Web to share visuals  . . .
06/29/2004 Design Strategies Applying Instructional Systems Processes to Constructivist Learning Environments Bill Brandon If you’ve spent years learning to use Instructional Systems Design processes to create e-Learning, the slight anarchy inheren . . .
06/14/2004 Design Strategies Constructing Knowledge, Tools for Learners Bill Brandon We are used to designing e-Learning applications to deliver instruction through technology. A more recent approach, construct . . .
06/01/2004 Design Strategies How Do People Learn? Some New Ideas for e-Learning Designers Bill Brandon One of the most vital questions in e-Learning is seldom asked, and yet many of us build careers on somebody else's answer . . .
05/10/2004 Design Strategies Style Points: Adapting e-Learning to the Learner Bill Brandon Many e-Learning designers are interested in ways to accommodate the differences between individual learners. Some avenues to  . . .
05/03/2004 Design Techniques Storyboards Tailored to You: Do-it-Yourself Magic Arrows Bill Brandon The handoff from design to production is one of the most critical transitions in e-Learning development, yet it is difficult  . . .
04/19/2004 Management Techniques Program Evaluation via Online Enterprise Sally Northam & Kathryn Tart The evaluation process in education should be systematic and continuous in order to improve quality and effectiveness. By mov . . .
04/12/2004 Management Strategies Connect e-Learning to Business Objectives Bill Brandon It's important for e-Learning efforts to support fundamental business objectives. At the same time, e-learning design tea . . .
04/05/2004 Management Strategies Quality Assurance for e-Learning Design Bill Brandon In e-Learning development, evaluation of the product is the final step of the process, and the one that is most often overloo . . .
03/29/2004 Development Strategies Flash Development Experts Tell All Bill Brandon Flash is widely used for e-Learning development, and yet its power is seldom fully tapped. Believing that experts' insigh . . .
03/15/2004 Management Strategies Prudential's LCMS Implementation: Delivery and Object Reuse Sanford Gold & Larry O'Brien Part 2 of 2: Once Prudential Financial established its e-Learning strategy, and supported it with a solid set of guidelines  . . .
03/08/2004 Management Strategies Prudential's LCMS Implementation: Learning Strategy, Objects and the Design Process Sanford Gold & Larry O'Brien Part 1 of 2: Managing the design and delivery of learning content can be an involved process in any organization. When the j . . .
03/01/2004 Development Strategies Content Reuse for the Rest of Us: Microsoft InfoPath for e-Learning Michael Powers Designing documents for content reuse is a challenge, especially when a team of individuals is involved. New tools, such as  . . .
02/16/2004 Design Strategies XML and Content Reuse Systems for Instructional Design - Part 3 Henry Myerding XML traces its roots back over three decades, and in that time content reuse has become a stable and well-understood concept. . . .
02/09/2004 Management Strategies The Perfect (Performance) Storm: Two Items You Must Have On Your 2004 Agenda Tony Karrer, Ph.D. Business pressures and the looming skilled-worker shortage are combining to produce a coming storm of opportunities for ePerf . . .
02/02/2004 Design Strategies XML and Content Reuse Systems for Instructional Design - Part 2 Henry Meyerding The first article in this series introduced the basics and the terminology of XML for designing and using learning objects. I . . .
01/26/2004 Management Strategies State of the Community of Practice David Holcombe & Heidi Fisk The past year has been a year of tremendous growth for the Guild -- growth in both membership and in the expansion of the ben . . .
01/19/2004 Design Strategies XML and Content Reuse Systems for Instructional Design - Part 1 Henry Meyerding Content reuse continues to be a hot topic, but the technology involved is new and complex. This is the first of a three-part  . . .
01/12/2004 Design Strategies Complex Interventions for Complex Problems: Expanded Context for e-Learning Tools Patti Shank Our jobs in e-Learning are all about solving performance problems, but most of the time e-Learning is not enough and organiza . . .
12/22/2003 Design Strategies Shareable Content Objects (SCORM): Whole Course Design and Implementation Issues Joel McKinney As rich-media e-Learning increasingly becomes the educational resource of choice, specifications like SCORM become increasing . . .
12/15/2003 Management Strategies Making It Happen: The Bechtel Safety Simulator Case Study Julie Marsh Building a high-visibility e-Learning application in a big company is often a true test of an e-Learning professional's m . . .
11/17/2003 Development Techniques Tutorial: e-Learning with Flash MX 2004 Paul Clothier The latest version of Flash MX has been specifically designed for the instructional designer or subject matter expert who has . . .
11/10/2003 Design Techniques e-Learning Reloaded: Helping Learners Succeed Online Russ McNally We don't yet have a way to download skills and knowledge directly into learners' brains. Even if we did, learners wou . . .
11/03/2003 Management Strategies Learning Measurement: It's Not How Much You Train, But How Well Jeffrey Berk A key consideration in designing e-Learning measures is deciding what to measure and report. Measurement can be expensive and . . .
10/27/2003 Development Techniques Online Enterprise Surveys: Construction & Management Sally Northam Online surveys within course management systems are an inexpensive way to gather data. Surveys enable you to track participan . . .
10/20/2003 Management Techniques Delivering Computerized Assessments Safely & Securely Eric Shepherd e-Learning managers are developing a growing awareness of potential security problems associated with assessments of online l . . .
10/13/2003 Design Techniques Last Things First: The Power of Backward Chaining Bill Brandon Learners face two challenges: learning and forgetting. Designs for e-Learning tend to concentrate on making learning efficien . . .
10/06/2003 Management Strategies What To Do When There's No Time To Do the Job Right Brandon, Ganci, Hyder & Lyons Time pressure is common in most jobs, but it seems to be a standard feature of e-Learning development. Without a well-develop . . .
09/29/2003 Management Strategies Blended Learning for Product Knowledge at Boehringer-Ingelheim Harald Wenske Blended learning continues to be a very useful approach in many situations. Boehringer-Ingelheim uses a variety of media to d . . .
09/22/2003 Development Strategies An Overview of Authorware 7 - and Its Evolution Joseph Ganci It seems as if Authorware has been around almost as long as the e-Learning field itself, and for nearly that long, industry g . . .
09/15/2003 Design Techniques More Than Just Eye Candy: Graphics for e-Learning (part 2 of 2) Chopeta Lyons & Ruth Clark This concludes an expert review of research on best practices in using visuals in e-Learning. Choosing the best graphic for l . . .
09/08/2003 Management Strategies e-Learning in a Down Economy: Wise Investments made by Financial Services Companies Purnima Menon Organizations today are under pressure to cut budgets while getting better results. In June, 2003, the New England e-Learning . . .
09/02/2003 Development Strategies Getting Interactive: Rich, Rapid e-Learning with Macromedia Flash and Breeze Paul Clothier The most sought-after e-Learning features involve rich-media, animation, and simulation to raise interactivity levels. At the . . .
08/25/2003 Design Strategies Avatar Technology: Giving a Face to the e-Learning Interface Raj Seth What if you could put a human face on your e-Learning program? The technology to provide a friendly, familiar, engaging "go-b . . .
08/18/2003 Design Techniques Learner-interface Design: Recognizing Learner Gestures (Part 5 of series) Michael Allen True, intelligent communication between the computer and the user is still beyond the reach of most e-Learning software. Unle . . .
08/11/2003 Design Techniques More Than Just Eye Candy: Graphics for e-Learning (part 1 of 2) Ruth Clark & Chopeta Lyons Visuals included in your e-Learning can improve learning -- if you can figure out how to use them correctly. In this article, . . .
08/04/2003 Design Strategies Changing Places: Instructional Designers Become Online Classroom Participants Bianchi, Busby, DeCore, Horsey, Hueser, Hill, & LeBlanc e-Learning designers and leaders don't often have the opportunity to walk in their learners' shoes. At The eLearning  . . .
07/28/2003 Design Techniques The Garden of Good and Media (Part 4 of series) Michael Allen e-Learning designers get a lot of advice about the use of media, and oftentimes this advice seems contradictory. What is need . . .
07/21/2003 Management Techniques High Value and Low Bandwidth: Crown Cork & Seal's $3 Million Jacqueline Beck e-Learning projects can be complex, even when their scope is simple. Here is a first-person account of one such project invol . . .
07/14/2003 Management Strategies High Attrition Rates in e-Learning: Challenges, Predictors, and Solutions Margaret Martinez We know that learners frequently do not complete online courses. Reasons offered range from "e-Learning is e-Boring" to "they . . .
07/07/2003 Design Techniques Screens With a Clear View (Part 3 of series) Michael Allen One of the most important jobs of the e-Learning designer is to give learners a clear picture of their tasks. The principles  . . .
06/30/2003 Management Strategies Peeling the e-Learning Onion: Implementing an e-Learning Program - Part 2 of 2 Russ McNally When the challenges of design and development have been met, the eLearning tam is still not out of the woods. Implementation, . . .
06/23/2003 Management Strategies Peeling the e-Learning Onion: Designing and Developing an In-house e-Learning Program - Part 1 of 2 Russ McNally There are plenty of challenges in the many layers of an e-Learning project. In this update about online instruction in Japan, . . .
06/16/2003 Management Strategies If You Only Look Under the Street Lamps... Or Nine e-Learning Myths Lance Dublin The e-Learning Industry is obsessed with finding the answers to the question, "Why hasn't e-Learning been more successful . . .
06/09/2003 Design Strategies Back to the Basics: Revisiting Great Training on Behalf of Great e-Learning Allison Rossett e-Learning must support a "big tent" view of knowledge, performance, and support -- but training is still the deliverable. Wh . . .
06/02/2003 Design Techniques Classic Learner Interface Errors (Part 2 of series) Michael Allen Design mistakes always seem like things that only happen to other people. But we all have made our share of them, totally una . . .
05/27/2003 Design Techniques Is Your Learner Interface Smart? (Part 1 of series) Michael Allen Design is a major determinant of the learners' experience. A good interface design will strengthen learning, while a poor . . .
05/19/2003 Development Strategies Using RSS and Weblogs for e-Learning: An Overview Bill Brandon New technologies are continually coming to the fore, and many of them have applications to e-Learning. Weblogs and RSS (an XM . . .
05/12/2003 Design Strategies Creating an Experience Students Deserve: Training College Professors to Teach Online Marie Larcara In colleges and universities around the world, "bricks and mortar" are being supplemented or even replaced by "clicks and mon . . .
04/28/2003 Management Strategies Mission-Critical e-Learning at a National Retailer: A Case Study Brenda Boss e-Learning professionals know their work is mission critical -- but sometimes the connection to the business drivers can be f . . .
04/14/2003 Management Techniques Doing the Numbers: Return on Investment for e-Learning Bill Brandon Discussions of Return on Investment (ROI) for e-Learning are pervasive, and often to abstract to be useful. Sometimes ideas p . . .
04/07/2003 Management Strategies Making e-Learning Work at AIG Japan: A Case Study Russ McNally One of the major challenges facing many international companies is the development of English language proficiency among over . . .
03/31/2003 Management Strategies Chief Learning Officers Share e-Learning Best Practices Ed Arnold Most organizations have already deployed some form of e-Learning, and are now primarily concerned with the practical issues i . . .
03/24/2003 Design Techniques Advising: The Missing Link in Learning Management Chet Leighton & Andrew Roderick In order to fulfill a given competency requirement in blended learning situations, learners may need to make important decisi . . .
03/17/2003 Design Techniques Create Web-based Courses Faster With HTML-based Storyboards Leo Lucas Storyboards are the most used tool in the e-Learning designer's kit. A storyboard helps move your e-Learning course from  . . .
03/10/2003 Development Techniques Repurposing Taped Video for e-Learning Part II: From Hard Drive to Optimized Video File Stephen Haskin Video is an increasingly important part of e-Learning and there are many ways to deliver it to the learner's desktop. Wit . . .
03/03/2003 Development Techniques Repurposing Taped Video for e-Learning Part I: From Tape to Hard Drive Stephen Haskin Technology for delivering video in e-Learning programs has made great advances in the last five years. But most video is stil . . .
02/24/2003 Design Strategies Training Goes Hollywood: Movies and Interactive Narrative in Soft-Skills Training Paul Clothier Why are e-Learning adoption and completion rates so dismal? Could one key reason be because so much e-Learning is BORING?!?!  . . .
02/18/2003 Management Strategies SCORM Deployment Issues in an Enterprise Distributed Learning Architecture Jeffrey Englebrecht SCORM incompatibility across multiple Web domains is not a frequently discussed problem, but it exists, and in some organizat . . .
02/10/2003 Development Techniques Implementing Effective Course Design with Reusable Learning Peder Jacobsen & Kim Ruyle In this second article of a two-part series, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how Deere & Company leveraged reusabl . . .
02/03/2003 Development Techniques Guided Discovery Teaching Methods and Reusable Learning Objects - Part I Peder Jacobsen & Kim Ruyle In this first article of a two-part series, you will get an in-depth look at how Deere & Company designed and developed an e- . . .
01/27/2003 Development Techniques In Tune With The Times: Berklee Media's Custom LMS Maria Leggett Projects as ambitious as creating your own learning management system can be completed relatively quickly, given good tools a . . .
01/21/2003 Management Strategies E-Learning: You Build It -- Now Promote It Jay Cross If you build e-Learning, will they come? Studies show that they generally won't. But e-Learning designers, developers and . . .
01/13/2003 Development Strategies Knowledge Sharing 101: Get the Ball Rolling with an Online Knowledge Base Anne-Marie Murphy When the National Finance Center (NFC) decided to create a Knowledge Base to supplement their performance improvement efforts . . .
01/06/2003 Management Strategies Communities of Practice for Professional Development Holcombe & Fisk Based on lessons learned over the last year from the development of The eLearning Guild, this articles outlines a number of k . . .
12/23/2002 Management Strategies Launching e-Learning: Success Factors for Getting it Right Carolyn Suneja PPG Industries decided to revitalize its Quality program with e-Learning - targeting their top 2,000 managers. Overcoming a  . . .
12/16/2002 Design Strategies How to Build Composite Learning Progressions Using Approximations Bill Brandon With all the new media and delivery choices available today, static courses are no longer the default for learning. This arti . . .
12/03/2002 Development Strategies Developing e-Learning Simulations With Tools You Already Know Mike Smialek Simulations can be very expensive to build due to the time it takes using traditional e-Learning tools (not to mention the le . . .
11/25/2002 Management Techniques Teach in Your Pajamas: Becoming a Synchronous e-Trainer Karen Hyder Distance learning always appealed to me, but I doubted the technology could ever make the experience equal to the classroom.  . . .
11/05/2002 Management Strategies Establishing and Fostering Collaborative Online Communities in the Workplace Katherine Werner As organizations grow into global entities, the need to develop communities of practice (CoP) is also growing exponentially.  . . .
10/29/2002 Management Strategies Steps to Creating a Content Strategy for your Organization Ellen Wagner Content always plays a critical role in supporting the learning function in organizations. It has now evolved to become a key . . .
10/15/2002 Design Strategies Bring Top Classroom Features Online -- No more Boredom! William Horton & Kit Horton Traditional classroom training has a number of unique benefits that have been difficult to replicate online. The good news i . . .
10/08/2002 Management Strategies An Accessible e-Learning System: From Concept to Prototype Martie Buzzard The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitative Services' need to develop a fully accessible e-Learning course that conformed t . . .
10/01/2002 Design Strategies Improving Online Sales Education: Learning Styles and Streaming Media Ronald Marks There are several reasons for the interest in in applying e-Learning to sales education. However, e-Learning has not yet ful . . .
09/24/2002 Management Strategies Achieving Maximum Return on Instruction (ROi) with e-Learning Conrad Gottfredson Optimizing return on e-Learning requires an implementation strategy that helps learners get all they can -- and need -- from  . . .
09/17/2002 Design Strategies The Power of Simulation-based e-Learning (SIMBEL) Randal Kindley Creators and managers of e-Learning are under pressure to obtain the highest leverage possible in every learning experience.  . . .
09/10/2002 Design Techniques Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why Ruth Clark To readily identify effective e-Learning, we need fewer end-user and expert opinions and more data. Decisions about e-Learni . . .
09/04/2002 Design Techniques Beyond Interactivity: Immersive Web-based Learning Experiences Alan Whiteside Instructional designers can take many cues from successful immersive experiences found on the Web. While only some training  . . .
08/27/2002 Management Strategies Developing e-Learning In-house: A Nonprofit Case Study Kathy Napierala & Lynn M. Tveskov United Way's foray into e-Learning was confronted by a number of challenges: a small budget, a small team, and resistant  . . .
08/20/2002 Design Techniques First Project: An e-Learning Odyssey Jean Marrapodi & Tracy Byrnes At Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS) Corporate Learning Services we decided to begin the journey into e-Learning. We pulled  . . .
08/13/2002 Management Techniques Developing Best Practices for Knowledge Work: ISD plus KM, Supported by Software Cindy McCabe & Chet Leighton The traditional process-driven approach to developing best practices has been a top-down model, which assumes that there is o . . .
08/06/2002 Design Strategies Instructional Design Certification: Are We Ready Yet? Suzy Cox Instructional Designers lack formal processes for gaining acceptance as professionals in the field. This makes it extremely  . . .
07/30/2002 Development Strategies Putting It to the Test: Quality Control for e-Learning Courses Barb Lesniak In the e-Learning development cycle, the alpha and beta tests are essential to ensure the quality and usefulness of your cour . . .
07/23/2002 Development Techniques Macromedia Flash MX and XML: More Than Just Movies Gregg Wygonik This issues looks at how we can use XML and Flash MX to represent the user interface and the sequence of content, not the con . . .
07/15/2002 Development Strategies It's All G(r)eek to Me: Terms You Should Know Bill Brandon Our understanding of interactivity and its role in e-Learning is evolving. This issue looks as some research around interact . . .
06/25/2002 Design Techniques Rapid Task Analysis - The Key to Developing Competency-based e-Learning Conrad Gottfredson Rapid Task Analysis (RTA) is a systematic process for identifying job competencies, up front, in the design phase of e-Learni . . .
06/18/2002 Design Strategies The New Frontier of Learning Object Design Ellen Wagner Learning objects appear to have significant potential for creating highly personalized learning programs, easily updated cour . . .
06/11/2002 Design Techniques Simulations: Creating Engaging e-Learning Worlds Eric Parks There is a simulation designer waiting to emerge in each of you. In designing e-Learning, we create worlds in which learners . . .
06/04/2002 Development Strategies Designing e-Learning for the Global Audience Bjorn Austraat Translating e-Learning courseware into other languages is only a small piece of the answer to taking that courseware to inter . . .
05/29/2002 Development Strategies Authoring Simultaneous e-Learning and Print Courses Larry Ford Combining web-based training and paper-based manuals can be a cost-effective and timely way to provide training to a busy and . . .
05/21/2002 Management Techniques Outsourcing Your Blended Learning Heidi Fisk Outsourcing should not mean that you're going to lose control of your department, minimize your staff's involvement i . . .
05/14/2002 Design Strategies Peer-to-Peer Computing, Improve Your Interface, and more... Bill Brandon This weeks issue of the Journal highlights commentary from Bill Brandon, the Journal's technical editor. You'll find . . .
05/07/2002 Design Strategies What is Personalized Learning? Margaret Martinez The Learning Orientation Model is an adult learning view of the key sources of individual learning differences. The model po . . .
04/30/2002 Development Techniques Here's Looking At You: Image Compression and Optimization Techniques Jacqueline Beck & Bill Brandon Images included in e-Learning applications have a profound effect of the learners experience. Fundamental decisions about im . . .
04/23/2002 Management Techniques How to Determine the Real Cost of e-Learning Programs Kevin Moore & Greg Harmeyer Since the advent of training, all those involved in profitability or Return on Investment (ROI) have struggled with how to ac . . .
04/16/2002 Design Techniques Reach Warp Speed with CourseBuilder's Interactions Ann-Marie Grissino It's the end of the month and your online course prototype deadline is looming ahead. You've written the course conte . . .
04/09/2002 Development Strategies Storyboards: Ready? Set? No! Chris Willis The best opportunity to ensure on-time e-Learning development within budget and scope comes after the storyboards have been a . . .
04/02/2002 Development Techniques Synchronized Course Maps on the Fly Ann-Marie Grissino & Jim Allman We wanted a course map object for a six-course curriculum. It had to be one that project writers could use to add and test c . . .
03/26/2002 Management Strategies Hey, I Don't Cost You Money! I Make You Money! William Horton Radical thought: e-Learning doesn't cost organizations money, it makes money. In this humorous (but practical) article, y . . .
03/19/2002 Design Strategies Stolen Moments for Learning David Metcalf Wireless e-Learning is growing in importance as part of a blended learning solution. More important than the technology is h . . .
03/12/2002 Management Techniques Talk the Talk: Sound like a Project Manager John Hartnett With the explosion of e-Learning, many instructor-led and traditional training managers suddenly find themselves in an unenvi . . .
03/05/2002 Design Techniques Putting the Learner Front and Center John Kruper e-Learning products, in spite of careful research and design, frequently fail to provide a satisfactory user experience, and  . . .
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