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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Top 8 Principles for Good Design
Good visual design adds a tremendous amount of instructional value to materials used in training. ‘Not so good’ design actually distracts and can restrict how much people learn. However, for many people, the notion of ‘good’ graphic design is extremely subjective. People tend to like what they like. As a graphic designer at Innovative Learning […]
Read MoreFlash is Going Away, It’s Time to Face Facts
Tick tock, tick tock … time is running out! It’s time to convert your e-learning courses, because FLASH IS DISAPPEARING! According to the Chromium Flash Roadmap, Flash will be disabled by default in Chrome this upcoming July, and Flash will be removed entirely in December 2020. This shouldn’t be news to you … but there’s […]
Read MoreConverting E-Learning Solutions from Flash to HTML5
A Plan for Converting Your E-Learning Solution from Flash to HTML5 Flash is hitting the figurative road, as Innovative Learning Group Business Development Director Tom Petro recently blogged so eloquently in “Yikes! Flash is going away.” Its upcoming departure is causing companies to dust off their e-learning catalogs and decide if it’s time for an […]
Read MoreGamification: Is It Relevant? Is It Meaningful?
Gamification continues to be a growing trend — in a long list of trends — in the learning industry. The thing is, gamification isn’t all that new. Gamification techniques (or more simply gaming techniques) such as countdowns, discovery, points, and levels, have been used for many years to engage learners and transfer knowledge and skills. […]
Read MorePreparing the Perfect Learning Feast
Tonight after a long day at work, it’s likely that the last thing you want to do is go home and prepare a fabulous meal. Honestly, after a day of mind-numbing meetings, 150 emails, and your manager leaning on you for that presentation, who has the energy for that? It’s more likely you’ll stop at […]
Read MoreWhat’s Your Attitude?
When it comes to learning, we all have an attitude regarding how to learn. This mindset includes how we think others should learn, the best way to learn, if generations really learn differently, and so on. Elliott Masie posted a great article — “Your Learners Have Attitude” — that inspired me to really think about […]
Read MoreAdapting to Adapt: Learning a New Framework for Responsive Design
An Expert’s Advice on Using Adapt for E-Learning At Innovative Learning Group, we’ve designed and developed thousands of e-learning courses using many different authoring tools and programming languages. So when requests started coming in to create e-learning using the new-to-us Adapt authoring tool and framework, an application that allows you to quickly build responsive e-learning content, […]
Read MoreHarnessing the Power of Video Learning: Take Your Content from Boring to Exciting
Are you ever faced with a need to communicate a procedure to your team but are unsure of the method to deliver it because the content is somewhat dry or is not very interesting? I recently worked with a longtime Innovative Learning Group client in the financial industry on a learning need just like this. […]
Read MoreOvercome Fears to Stop the Insanity
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I think most of us are familiar with this Einstein quote and would agree with it. But I think many of us still do exactly that — repeat the same thing over and over even though the results don’t change. I know […]
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