PowerPoint for E-Learning To successfully use PowerPoint for rapid elearning, you need to do two things: Rethink how you use PowerPoint. Most people approach it from a linear presentation mindset, building slides the same way they would for face-to-face presentations. That just doesn’t work for elearning.Learn to use PowerPoint’s features. Once you scratch the surface of the tools available in PowerPoint, you’ll see it’s more than adequate for building great elearning. In many ways it’s the ideal choice because it offers a blend of speed, ease-of-use, and cost savings. The following posts explore lots of practical, hands-on tips and tricks for using PowerPoint to create elearning. What You Need to Know About PowerPoint & E-Learning This series discusses key concepts and provides excellent examples of how to use PowerPoint for your elearning courses. Tips & Tricks to Improve Your PowerPoint Skills Here’s a series of posts that will give you all of the basic production techniques that you need to be successful.
200 Free Rapid E-Learning Tutorials A few weeks ago I offered some advice on how to become an elearning pro without spending a dime. The essence of that post is: You have access to a lot of free tips and tricks. So there are plenty of opportunities to learn and it doesn’t cost you anything more than your time. Practice doing what you learn. I also offered up a small challenge and your peers responded by creating a number of tutorials. Click here to view the tutorial. Here’s a quick mock up using the ideas from Linda’s tutorial. Click here to view the prototype. Below is a list of great tips and tricks that you can apply to your elearning courses right away. Creating PowerPoint Graphics Some of these tips are really practical and probably work right away. Create transparent background for your images in PowerPoint. PowerPoint Animation Tips & Techniques You might not need to use all of these animation tips, but it’s a good thing to practice them because the techniques can be applied in all sorts of circumstances.
The Basics of Scenario-Based e-Learning In this post, I will walk you through the various aspects of scenario-based eLearning, so that you can design eLearning courses which not only keep the learners motivated and engaged, but provide them with the best possible educational experience that effectively enhances their skill sets and/or knowledge base. There are a myriad of instructional design theories and models to choose from when creating eLearning courses. In fact, selecting the one that fits your students’ or employees’ needs can often be a challenging task. However, if you are looking for a model that is ideally suited to improve learner engagement, then scenario-based eLearning may be the solution.Scenario-Based eLearning, essentially, immerses the learners in real life or situational simulations or learning experiences that allow them to gather skills or information that they will recall for future use. How Scenario-Based eLearning Improves Engagement and Understanding
Rapid E-Learning 101 Rapid elearning can mean many things. For some it means easy tools that let you build elearning courses without special programming skills. For others, it means being empowered to quickly share your expertise with others. Ultimately, it’s usually about getting the right information to people at the right time while operating at the speed of business. Rapid E-Learning 101 If you’re just getting started with elearning, this series brings you up-to-speed. How to Get Started with E-Learning I get a lot of emails asking how to get started with elearning. But the real tip is to practice what you’re learning, even if it’s simple in the beginning.
Scénario multi-branches dans articulate Creating Branching E-learning Scenarios Here's a basic introduction to using branching, hyperlinking, slide masters and customizing player templates to create multi-path learning paths within a Presenter course. The idea behind the project was to simulate loading unique content based on learner selection. Navigation icons are included for learners to return to start screen or jump over to another learning path at any time. This is a start-to-finish series. Also included is a small, visual map in top right corner. Preview: final project Download source files: PPT2007 | PPT2003 Screencast: Anyway, hope you find this useful. As always, we'd love to see what you come up with so please share questions as well as samples! Beginning Instructional Authoring: Getting Good Scenario Content from SMEs Last month I began discussing the all-too-common difficulty that eLearning folks face of getting the right content from subject matter experts (SMEs). And as I said last month, it’s such a typical problem that it’s a bit of an inside joke in our field. Too often we ask for information about the wigglytibbit and the SME sends either 1) a PowerPoint presentation with minimal useful information or 2) a mountain of documents (which she now expects you to use, since she’s taken the time to find them). So last month I suggested three generic ways to get the specific content you need: If you need images, provide a very specific shot listIf you need textual content, provide specific contextual content clues such as storyboard pages ORPowerPoint pages This month I’m going to show you how to get content from SMEs for eLearning scenarios, but – with just a little bit of imagination – you can adapt this same technique to get content for any type of eLearning content. Branched scenarios Table 1.
Overdrive Develops Social Learning Infographic for SkillSoft | Overdrive eMarketing Blog: Social Media Marketing | Search Engine Marketing Here at Overdrive, we love to highlight our clients’ successes and the collaborative effort of our team members. We worked with our client, SkillSoft, to develop and launch their Social Learning infographic, now available. This recently completed infographic offers valuable insight into this industry, and expresses the opportunity and benefits of incorporating social learning into organizations. The infographic is complete with live-links, allowing users to gain deeper knowledge on the social learning industry and further engage with SkillSoft and their community. For more information on this infographic or to download a copy, click here. Related Posts:
An Easy Way to Build Branched Scenarios for E-Learning This past week I was in Nashville where we discussed building interactive scenarios. Part of the discussion revolved around designing some simple scenario strategies to move the projects away from linear elearning and towards meaningful interactivity. The ultimate goal is transitioning from a push model where we just provide information and move to a more interactive model where the learner makes the same types of decisions she’d make in a real-world environment. These decision-making activities are used to reinforce what you want her to practice and learn so that your courses have real-world impact. Simple Structure for Scenarios As I’ve shared before, I like to use what I call the “3C model” to construct my scenarios or interactive elearning. Challenge: The goal is to engage the learner and challenge her understanding. There are a few different ways I use the 3C model to template the interactive scenarios. Complex Decision-Making Interactions Pros & Cons of Complex Branching
A Global Guide to Tricky Pronunciation English pronunciation is a troublesome thing to master for ESL and EFL students. Those who try to learn without regular auditive stimulation have a particularly difficult time with accurate pronunciation. Plus, some sounds in English just don’t exist in some foreign languages, like the “th” sound. Pronunciation snags happen between many languages. For example, Portuguese-speakers do not understand the sound of “j” that many Spanish-speakers use for the consonant “y.” Most Japanese and Chinese speakers have a hard time with the sound of “ell” coming from any other language, and often confuse it with “ar.” English sometimes can seem dedicated to making it even harder for learners with some phonetic oddities, like the words: ‘tough’ [túf]; ‘women’ [wû-mun]; ‘aisle’ (And going back to the “h” issue, the letter has no sound in English in the words ‘heir’ [ehr], ‘hour’ [our] and ‘herb’ [urb], just like in Portuguese). (Visited 985 times, 1 visits today)
The Anatomy of a Scenario-Based Lesson Scenario-based learning is generally most appropriate when teaching learners with some relevant prior knowledge or experience how to perform tasks that rely on critical and creative problem solving. They are especially useful to teach skills that are difficult to acquire on the job because of safety concerns or scarcity of real-world opportunities. Decisions can have life or death consequences, and a scenario-based approach to learning offers at least a partial substitute for real-world experience. There are four essential elements of an effective scenario-based lesson: an authentic scenario or task assignment that serves as a context for learning learner guidance while responding to and resolving the problem feedback on problem solutions or problem-solving processes explicit opportunities to reflect on problem solutions. The Scenario Case study scenarios commonly appear in procedural (part task) lessons and sometimes even in explanations. The Guidance Constrain learner control.
Metamedia | La révolution de l'information Moodle The most successful customer service training programs focus a great deal of their content around experiential learning because it significantly increases employee performance and customer satisfaction. Experiential learning methods focus on having employees learn new skills by experience and practicing them. Some experiential training methods include job aids like posters and PDFs, coaching, or role-playing different workplace scenarios with team members. The Advanced Guide To Top Your Customer Service Training Game Get actionable insights on identifying and solving problems with your existing customer service training program. One of the most popular forms of experiential training is scenario-based learning. Simulations can be used for different types of customer service training, from soft skills to product knowledge. Increases Learner Engagement One of the most valuable benefits of scenario-based learning is its ability to engage learners by stimulating their brain activity. Summary