Organizational Clarity: “Creating Device Mockup Templates and Placeholders for E-Learning #161” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this article: “Creating Device Mockup Templates and Placeholders for E-Learning #161” is an article that discusses how to use the custom mockups you created for your various presentations and E-Learning documentation. In the article, it lists resources on how to make:

• Mobile phones
• iPads and tablets
• Laptops
• Monitors and iMacs

Learning how to make your (own) graphics can streamline the creation process plus save your organization money on paying for costly images to use online or on the organization's web service. Although this may save a couple of dollars at first it will save a lot of money in the long run, through repeat usage of the mockups that you made as a result.
Just click on the link here to learn more:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/device-mockup-templates-elearning

Organizational Clarity: "Who Should Review Your E-Learning Course Before Launch?" article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this article: “Who Should Review Your E-Learning Course Before Launch?” briefly discusses who should review your proposed training program for your organization.

1. Your project sponsor
2. SME
3. Corporate legal counsel (if your organization is big enough to have one!)
4. Global reps (only if your organization is global)
5. Safety or compliance expert
6. Quality leader
7. IT and LMS specialist
8. Content editor/usability tester
9. Pilot trainees

Having all of these individuals giving their feedback for your new training program can help it avoid technical, legal and usability issues this will save the organization from wasting precious resources. Plus, following the advice mentioned from this article will help you build credibility with these various groups, and build avenues of communication that will be required later on when trying to gain workable feedback to determine the Return on Investment for the organization.

Just click on the link here to learn more:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/who-should-review-your-e-learning-course-before-launch

Organizational Clarity:"Instructional Design Best Practices – A Comprehensive Guide" article

From the CommlabIndia community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email, I received was a link to: “Instructional Design Best Practices – A Comprehensive Guide” by Gitika Nagra.

These are the eight great points for Instructional Design when it comes to E-Learning projects listed in the article: 

1. Set clear learning objectives
2. Make navigation simple and easy
3. Make the course interesting and engaging
4. Include effective audio
5. Include scenarios
6. Include challenging quizzes
7. Provide quick and explanatory feedback
8. Provide rewards

When you want to create a successful program to present to a client or for your organization, following these steps or even adding a couple of these steps to your programming will help give it structure. While keeping everything, flexible and engaging, interaction is the clue here, and these helpful tips keep your learners on point. By adding a little extra here and there, the learning process becomes that much easier and interesting for your trainees and clients.

If you want to know more just click the link here:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-design/instructional-design-best-practices-guide

Organizational Clarity: “Powerpoint: 4 Title Slides to Inspire Your Next Project” free download

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs.  In this posting upon the site is “Powerpoint: 4 Title Slides to Inspire Your Next Project” by Nicole Legault. This is Professional at Articulate has posted a free download for presentation usage in Microsoft PowerPoint, 4 various backgrounds for you to use in your next meeting or training class.

Just click on the link here, take a look and download away! à https://community.articulate.com/download/powerpoint-title-slides-to-inspire-you

Organizational Clarity: “10+ Examples of Financial Calculators in E-Learning” article/free downloads

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to: “10+ Examples of Financial Calculators in E-Learning” this is article engages ten creators, like other e-learning challenges, that have developed examples of various calculators to illustrate how to make learning more fun.

You can download some of these and thereby use the financial calculators for your projects. Financial calculators are great when you need tools to balance a project’s budget, for performance or even reward assessments. These Interactive Financial Calculators cover various subjects and types of measurement but there is an example for everyone and helpful in training those who want to understand the costs of a training project.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/financial-calculators-in-elearning

Organizational Clarity: “Choosing the Right LMS: 6 Essential Aspects You Can’t Ignore” article

I was reading an article about online learning to make any programs I may develop in the future become more user-friendly and inviting to the trainees I want to reach. This article called: “Choosing the Right LMS: 6 Essential Aspects You Can’t Ignore” by Heera Edwin is purchasing the right learning management system for your organization in order to have effective e-learning sessions while meets the organization’s goals and training needs.

When it comes to replacing an existing Learning Management System, or if the training was being transferred to an online application process, this article briefly explains how to choose the best LMS for your organization. When more and more organizations are choosing to deliver training online, being able to determine the best type of LMS being selected and used, is often critical. Oh and do not forget cost too, many organizations hardly think of these and a few other factors that could determine what the best choice for them is.

Please click on the link for more information:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-development/choosing-right-lms-6-essential-aspects

Organizational Clarity: “16 Creative Multiple Choice Quiz Designs in E-Learning” article/download

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to: “16 Creative Multiple Choice Quiz Designs in E-Learning” this is article talks the usage of multiple choice questions in creative ways to make training sessions and the training program more engaging overall.

The article is just linked to sixteen designer examples, some you can download other you can just view the project to get a general idea of what to do in your training program. I, of course, love the ones you can download because this means you can use these projects for your usage and thereby have a template for future programs all that is needed is some adjustments.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/multiple-choice-quiz-examples

Organizational Clarity: “How to Bust 3 Common Training Myths” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to: “How to Bust 3 Common Training Myths” this is article talks about training and how to overcome some of the misconceptions that as trainers we may have when it comes to analyzing the success of a training program.

These are the three myths that the article discusses:

Myth #1: More Clicking Means More Engagement

Myth #2: The More Reviewers, the Better the Training

Myth #3: People Only Learn Through Formal Training

The way basically to overcome these myths is to have a “highly interactive” course and engage all the stakeholders involved with the training program. Understanding how people learn can allow you as the trainer to develop solutions that enrich their experience as a learner, makes your job easier and helps the organization increase it Return on Investment from the program.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-bust-3-common-training-myths

Organizational Clarity: “Tips for Using Sound Effects in E-Learning” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to:

In this week’s email I received a link to: “Tips for Using Sound Effects in E-Learning” this is a great article that refers you to how to use sound effects in your training program properly. From having the Proper Rights and Attribution to understanding how to use the right sound effects can affect the learning experience of your audience, therefore, Knowing Your Audience is key and the article discusses that as well.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/tips-for-using-sound-effects-in-e-learning

Organizational Clarity: “MP4 – Making Flash-based E-learning Videos Universal” article

From the CommlabIndia community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email I received was a link to: “MP4 – Making Flash-based E-learning Videos Universal” by Phani Madhav. I must admit I do love MP4 formats when viewing any types of video the quality is close to DVD format and is usable on different types of avenues such as desktops or smartphones.

This article discusses why you should use MP4s to create Flash training programs and use instead of Flash, mainly due to the certain devices cannot use Flash effectively plus you can add subtitles (as mentioned in the article) to the videos which help with multilingual or international audiences.  Keeping the audiences involved and maintaining their interest in the material you are presenting is key so using MP4 format will assist you to avoid presentation problems as mentioned in this article.

These are four other advantages listed in the article when using the MP4 format:

1.       The quality of MP4 videos is near identical to those of original DVD videos 

2.       Content published in the MP4 format can be streamed on mobile devices

3.       Videos published in the MP4 format can be shared very easily on mobiles 

4.       MP4 can be used to develop videos for multilingual learners

If you want to know more just click the link here:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-development/mp4-for-universal-elearning-videos