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12 Dec

Looking Back at 2017

As the end of another year approaches, I like many bloggers look back on the year that was. It's been a quieter year on the blogging front for me as my wife and I welcomed the birth of our first child in May, a beautiful baby girl - Eva Rose - who has kept us busy and we're learning lots! Here's all of my 2017 posts (select a title to read): 10 Blogs Every eLearning Professional Should Read Working with Images in eLearning (part 1) Working with Images in eLearning (part 2) Valuing all Sources of Learning Accessing Curated Content...
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28 Nov

A Little Help from Your Friends

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning |

I’m an advocate for continual skill development especially for people working in eLearning. Thankfully there’s lots of folks in this field who generously share their knowledge and expertise through blog posts or YouTube videos or articles or podcasts or books and make it available to everyone. While I do read widely and watch online tutorials, it’s through deliberate practice that we become better at whatever it is that we do. But lately I haven’t been making the time for practice and trying out these ideas and techniques myself. A few weeks ago, I decided to create some new Storyline demos...
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27 Aug

Sharpening Your Axe

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

There was a woodcutter. He used to work incredibly hard to ensure a good livelihood, but he always felt that his work was not giving him enough output. Every day he would decide to work harder and longer, but at the end of the day he would find his pile of wood smaller than the previous day. One day, when he was busy as usual, he noticed a bigger pile of logs with a woodcutter sitting next to it. He asked, “How can you have a bigger pile than me in less time, and how can you relax so early...
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20 Jun

Response from an eLearning Creator

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

Dear Engaged Learner, Thank-you for your letter and my apologies for the delay in replying. I receive so many from engaged learners like you that it takes me a little while to respond but it always warms the cockles of my heart to read them. I’m so pleased to read that you were engaged during the course but I honestly can't take all the credit. You see, my colleagues and I usually receive a request for some training when there’s a real or imagined issue or when the legal or safety teams say it needs to be done. We don’t...
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07 Jun

Letter to an eLearning Creator

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

Dear eLearning Creator, I don’t normally do this but after what was one of the greatest hours of my life, I felt that I must. I’ve just completed a wonderful eLearning course that you created and I wanted to personally let you know how much I enjoyed it and that I was so engaged from start to finish. Day-to-day I’m quite busy in my role, however when I received the notification that I needed to complete my module I was happy to stop what I was doing, set my phone to voicemail and get started. Actually, a quiet hush fell...
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Learn. Show. Repeat.

Looking Back at 2017

A Little Help from Your Friends

Sharpening Your Axe

Response from an eLearning Creator

Letter to an eLearning Creator

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