Best Certification for Breaking into Instructional Design field
I am mentoring an Educator (with a Master's in Teaching) and 15 years of teaching fifth-grade science as well as pre-school. This educator wants to transfer her skills to break into the Instructional Design field. What are the best certifications programs for this type of professional?Who here has an e-learning portfolio?
Hey all—as I've been chatting with community members lately, something that's coming up a lot is e-learning portfolios. I thought it might be interesting to start a thread and have folks share your portfolios in the comments. Bonus points if you add a couple of notes to your comment about what you see as best practices for portfolio creation—if I get a bunch of comments here I can create a summary of best practices for folks who don't have portfolios yet to read! Really looking forward to seeing some of these 🙌
Using Storyline for Virtual Escape Room
I am a new user of Storyline having just done a short course and I had the idea to create an online escape room or branching story to take learners through some different features and processes I want to share. I used to create something using Google Slides so I wondered if anyone here had any ideas on how to do something using Storyline or any best practices?Starting a Learning Design Business
Hello E-Learning Heroes community! I'm Erin from Toronto, Ontario Canada. I'm an instructional designer, currently in the process of opening my own business (website coming soon!). I have some ideas on next steps, but I would love to hear from anyone who has launched their on instructional design business. What did you do to market yourself?Organising project phases
Hi there! I'm curious to learn how others organise the workflow when creating E-Learning content. I personally find kind of challenging the final revision, in which I need to check that everything in the content is well and adjusted. I was thinking in creating a checklist that could be used as a support but I don't really know what kind of format could really be useful... any idea? How do you usually check that everything is perfect right before delivering?Expert Insight Needed!
Hi Everyone! I am a graduate student in an Instructional Design and Performance Technology program. In my Distance Learning Policy and Planning course, we are conducting an informal research investigation on current use of technology in our field. We are tasked with finding out what practitioners are using out in the real world, and how they feel about those technologies. Can you please share the platforms you use and your own personal feelings about these technologies (what works well, what is challenging, etc.) for purposes such as: Delivering instruction or training (such as an LMS) Communication and collaboration Assessments or testing Analytics Thank you so much for helping me learn from your experience!Which LMS are you using?
Our current LMS (Litmos) is up for renewal and we're reviewing what else is out there. While changing LMS's is a big job, we feel that while once it was leading, Litmos is lagging behind in features and updates, and the admin side is clunky compared to other more modern LMS's. We're looking for an easy to use, but powerful, admin interface, robust reporting and learner insights, easily customisable for the look and feel, engagement tools such as social learning or allowing learners to connect through discussion forums, to name a few. I have contacted both Absorb and Continu who will both be giving me a demo next week, but wanted to know - what LMS are you using and what are the pros and cons?What does engagement mean to you...?
Our chief learning officer is tasking us to make our compliance courses to be more engaging. I find this word to be ambiguous and, as I am not opposed to making the courses engaging, what are some of the things you do to help engage the learner? Some of the things that I am doing is to include what I call "thinking slides". I will ask a question or pose a scenario that has the learner make a choice. If they make the wrong choice, there is a layer or some other feature that informs the learner of what the more positive outcome would be. If they are correct, I try to give them praise for their progress. I also try to use images and videos to break up the constant text heavy information. I will use short bullets with extended explanation with TTS narration. I am actually getting push back because the neural TTS voices aren't good enough and sound artificial. After using and hearing the old TTS voices, I think the neural voices sound pretty good and does an excellent job of conveying information. So, are there other things that you do to engage your learners? I would appreciate hearing your comments! Thanks, Lance.How Do You Approach a Needs Analysis?
Before diving into building a course or training, figuring out what people actually need to learn is such a key step—but everyone approaches it a little differently. I'd love to hear from you! 💬 👉🏼 What does your needs analysis process look like? 👉🏼 Do you follow a standard method or use any go-to resources? 👉🏼 Have any examples you're willing to share? I'm gathering insights for an upcoming community program 🎉 , so real-world examples and tips from this awesome community would be incredibly helpful! 🙌🏼 Can't wait to see how you approach it!Escape Room in Rise
I'm looking into whether it would be feasible to create an escape room activity using a Rise course. I had thought of a central lesson showing an interactive image and then inserting links to other lessons (which would contain the puzzles to be solved) within the content box under each marker but that doesn't seem to be possible. Has anyone created an escape room activity using Rise using another method?
