eLearning Best Practices

Instructional Design It’s not about what they need to know. It’s about what they need to do. Let them know what’s in it for them. Make the narrative human. Avatars make the course more human and more emotionally approachable. Let the learner explore on their own. Let them freely navigate on their own. Make them ...

Interactivity, Instructional Interactions, and Performance Interactions

There is a difference between the traditional “levels of interactivity” for asynchronous e-learning and interactions. Actually, they are very different. Interactivity Levels of interactivity are usually used during the Request for Proposal (RFP) and Proposal stages of business development/sales/contracting to figure out scope and pricing for an e-learning project. Based on my experience, I use ...

Reflections Of My First MOOC 1

Reflections Of My First MOOC
I recently finished the Gamification course offered by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business via Coursera.org.  The course was six weeks long and had more than 63,000 registered students.  Close to 6,000 finished and I was one of them.  I kept notes as I took the course.  Not of the content, but of ...

e-Learning Instructional Design Course

I thought I would brush up on my e-Learning Instructional Design skills so I took the ATSD e-Learning Instructional Design cbd products course taught by the wonderful Ethan Edwards of Allen Interactions.  One of the reasons I wanted to take it was I know Allen Interactions has some very great ideas about how e-Learning should ...