Using Chatbots in Learning Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, computers were often pictured in popular media as being a technology that (usually) wanted to help mankind. Characters would interact with these machines by simply talking, and the computers were able to talk back and hold entire conversations. At the time, real computers didn’t […]
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A Closer Look at Four Learning Tools In many projects, my role is to serve as a learning technology consultant to help organizations choose the best learning tool to support their needs. In most cases, these organizations are trying to find one system that does everything. Sometimes, this just isn’t possible. There are multiple categories […]
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Using Tools Differently for Different Projects Frequently when I share my screen during Zoom meetings, I get quite a reaction. The reaction isn’t about the amazing desktop background picture of me climbing Everest (Kidding! It’s just a stock image.); it’s from people who catch a glimpse of my email inbox. “Where’s everything?!” coworkers seem to […]
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From Relationship Managers to Business Consultants Many Moons Ago… …I began working with a great team at Amway on transitioning its global sales account managers from administrative/relationship-building roles to strategic, business consultants or trusted advisors. This revolutionary change in position and perspective prompted the global sales learning and development team to also radically evolve its […]
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Five Tips for Converting Courses From Flash to HTML5 Using Storyline 360 The plug has finally been pulled — Flash is no more. I spent a lot of time last year converting courses from Flash to HTML5 in Storyline and gathered some tips and tricks along the way. If you still have courses that need […]
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Five Features Every Learning Portal Should Have At the beginning of the pandemic, I made the choice to enroll my first grader in our school district’s virtual academy. I thought, “Virtual learning, this is an aspect of my job — how hard could it be?” Ha! My son’s courses are provided through vendors,each with a […]
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Seven Tips for First-Rate E-Learning Quality Assurance Testing Great e-learning requires many things: project management, strong instructional design, excellent programming skills, expertise in graphic design, talented voice actors, and a skilled editor. If the team has done all these things well, a robust quality assurance (QA) process can deliver flawless e-learning that works well under […]
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Three UX Design basics to remember After reading Tom Petro’s blog, Are We In This Virtually Forever?, I started thinking further into the future than I had in months. As Tom pointed out, almost everything that could be moved to an online platform has moved. A lot of industries and schools are now remote, movie […]
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Five Considerations to Building an Animation Library In case you weren’t already in the know, animation takes a lot of time. A few seconds worth of high quality animation can take days, entire scenes take months, and the films Disney and Dreamworks release take several years and hundreds of artists! With that in mind, the […]
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Five Actions to Take to Advance Your Learning Future Now that we are many months into this pandemic, I think we’ve come to realize that many of our normal routines have changed forever — at home and at work. For learning professionals, those whose work weeks were largely filled with maintaining and delivering live instructor-led […]
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