Best Practices for Using Video in E-Learning Are you thinking about adding video to your e-learning course? Let me share a few best practices in case you want to know a little bit more about your options. There are many reasons to use video in your training: it’s a quick way to deliver content, sound, […]
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A Quick High-level Comparison of Unity and Storyline As a learning technology consultant, I’m often asked to compare the features of various authoring tools to help an organization standardize what it uses. Most often, these requests are for tools such as Storyline, Rise, Captivate, and iSpring. Although capabilities vary quite a bit, Storyline and Unity […]
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Seek Many Voices When Designing Solutions Imagine you’re an instructional designer (ID) charged with creating e-learning to teach a work process. Which one of the following is the best way to determine the course content? Obtain relevant information from the subject matter expert (SME) Imagine what you would want to know yourself Observe an exemplary […]
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Applying Change Management for Learning As an instructional designer, I often work on projects that are large initiatives or are taking a company in a different direction culturally. While my main role is to design and develop learning to support the initiative or new direction, from a performance consultant perspective I also listen for, or […]
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A Reflection on my Career in Learning It was 1980-something when I graduated college with a business degree, prepared for a career in marketing. After several attempts to get a job in a tough employment market, I landed a position doing something I could’ve never imagined — writing proposals for a custom training consultancy in […]
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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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Six Best Practices to Stay Connected in a Virtual World It’s been a year since many employees started working remotely. While the main push from clients has been to convert in-person instructor-led courses to virtual to accommodate a remote workforce, interestingly, I’ve also been working with a few clients to create wellness and mindful work […]
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Four Lateral Thinking Techniques to Help You Get “Outside the Box” Have you ever encountered an unsolvable problem? One where, no matter how much you pound on it, the solution never presents itself? This reminds me of an old TV show, Unsolved Mysteries (recently rebooted by Netflix). Over some dramatic theme music, we would see […]
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How to Handle Last-Minute Changes What do you do when things don’t go as planned? Seems to be the theme of 2020, doesn’t it? The week before Father’s Day, I found out my husband was going to have the holiday off from his job as a retail manager. We were excited because some of the […]
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Avoid getting tripped up with the “familiar” As an Innovative Learning Group project manager, it’s my job to plan and monitor each step of a project. I’m clearly familiar with how to look ahead and anticipate bumps in the road, so when it came to planning a simple night out with my husband I wondered […]
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