David Becker
David Becker
Principal at Becker Consulting
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    David Becker

    David has been producing media and designing eLearning and blended learning for nearly 20 years. Having worked in most roles from on air talent, business development to consulting, design and development, he is skilled and experienced in most facets of the industry. These days he helps organisations use eLearning and blended learning to enable their corporate strategy. He is also passionate about the evidence-based application of learning theory and neuroscience to adult learning.
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David Becker replied to the discussion Link redirects
"Mate you are a legend, they should bloody bottle you! (This is a compliment in Australia, referring to the excellence of your essence"
  • 12 years ago02/15/12 at 9:09 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Question on selling
"I use scormcloud. For all intents and purposes they have a scorm 1.2 compliant package that they upload to their LMS. In reality it  is a..."
  • over 12 years ago02/15/12 at 3:44 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Morphing and Image
"http://download.cnet.com/FotoMorph/3000-2186_4-10845768.html"
  • over 12 years ago02/14/12 at 10:34 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Design questions - Huge undertaking
"Maybe benchmark some old hands and see what they do, you might end up with a series of case studies that show how the checklist flows in ..."
  • over 12 years ago02/14/12 at 1:10 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion What would you do? (Image/copyright question)
"Ask around your friends and colleagues for a Chinese speaking person who can intermediary for you. There are also low cost outsourcing op..."
  • over 12 years ago02/14/12 at 1:06 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Non-Anonymous Surveys
"Use a 'short answer' survey question type  at the start and have them type in their name"
  • over 12 years ago02/13/12 at 4:01 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Human 3d anatomy
"http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/ http://www.visiblebody.com"
  • over 12 years ago02/13/12 at 3:58 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Ideas for a Technology Course
"Maybe focus on motivation and metacognitive strategies and help your sales force uncover and reflect on how they think and learn. If you ..."
  • over 12 years ago02/13/12 at 3:57 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Sharing Lessons Learned
"Perhaps the greatest lesson I have learned is about self worth. It is easy to allow yourself to slip down the totem pole as an ID and con..."
  • over 12 years ago02/13/12 at 3:41 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Matching qiuz
"If you were willing to array all the colored boxes horizontally rather than vertically and used text only for the drag items, then a matc..."
  • over 12 years ago02/13/12 at 3:25 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Enlarging radio button or associating an image with radio button
"No problem, glad to help"
  • over 12 years ago02/10/12 at 3:34 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Interactive Education for Lazy Professionals
"If you base a course on sound education principles, but equally, make it realistic, relevant, fun and entertaining, then the people who a..."
  • over 12 years ago02/10/12 at 5:16 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Enlarging radio button or associating an image with radio button
"What about the Hotspot quiz type? Draw a graphic showing the scale and ask them to click somewhere along the scale. You can define the ri..."
  • over 12 years ago02/10/12 at 5:12 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion What industry sector do you work in?
"Hey Articulate superheros, you know what would be cool? Polls. Would have made this thread easy and the results useful!"
  • over 12 years ago01/29/12 at 3:02 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Where do you find work?
"A fairly safe path is to subcontract to eLearning companies providing overflow work to start with. This helps you establish some cash flo..."
  • over 12 years ago01/29/12 at 2:59 am (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Articulate developer looking for assignments
"Hi Yuvaraj, Can you please send me links to some examples of your Articulate work?"
  • over 12 years ago01/25/12 at 4:03 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Special Considerations for Designing a Classroom Instructor-led Co
"Wow, I love this idea, using the branching to meet the needs of multiple delivery channels in one package. Thanks!"
  • over 12 years ago01/23/12 at 1:42 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion signs of intoxication
"Thanks Natalia, I wanted to get a feel for the functionality of the tool. Sinse I built that I've developed a range of approaches, but th..."
  • over 12 years ago01/23/12 at 1:40 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion signs of intoxication
"@Dave Neuweiler - Thanks, it was actually my first ever articulate course. I'll tell u a secret too. I didn't know about Articulates func..."
  • over 12 years ago01/21/12 at 3:36 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion signs of intoxication
"Yes. I have built a course on responsible service of alcohol. In fact I wholesale it to training providers. Here's a topic from it. http:..."
  • over 12 years ago01/20/12 at 2:02 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Black as a background
"Another useful tip for black is to use a subtle centre gradient, rather than straight black, it gives the screen depth."
  • over 12 years ago01/19/12 at 10:12 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Building Courses without Audio
"Here's a food safety course I built without audio. http://elearningconsultant.com.au/samples/food/player.html The approach here is to use..."
  • over 12 years ago01/16/12 at 2:33 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Black as a background
"Why not use the key colors in your opening slide to give you a range of different background colors to work with? So you could have: Blac..."
  • over 12 years ago01/16/12 at 2:20 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Calling all Aussies!
"Thanks Blair and Kulari!"
  • over 12 years ago01/10/12 at 9:19 pm (UTC)
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David Becker replied to the discussion Selling your courses
"Do you sell it as a once off package or a yearly subscription (if subscription how do you track it)?I sell at a a wholesale price to rese..."
  • over 12 years ago01/09/12 at 4:33 pm (UTC)