In many organisations, the learning and development (L&D) area are known as the people who deliver information – mostly via courses – either online or in a classroom. Many of which are essentially nothing more than one-off, content dumps. We say that we want to be business partners and express our desire for a seat at the table so we talk about “capacity building”, “a learning organisation” and “ecosystems” in an attempt to achieve this. We talk about blending, flipping, shrinking, socialising and gamifying learning events but often the execution has the wrong focus. We’ve become overly fixated on frameworks...
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A question I have about content curation in an organisational setting is: How do you make the content available for people within an organisation? I guess you could use the LMS but I don’t know user-friendly this would be especially if you need to sign-in to get to it. Maybe an intranet or other website? I’ve been playing around with Anders Pink and from what I’ve seen, it’s a useful tool for curation for individuals and teams. I’ll write a post about it in the future. Another idea was to use one of the new apps in Articulate 360 called...
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Each year I meet quite a few people who work in the eLearning field, usually they're developers or eLearning creation is part of their L&D role. Most are newbies to eLearning and we come together in a classroom setting to get them started on their eLearning development journey. At the beginning of each session I like to find out a little about each person – such as their background, their experience – and while most people are brand new to eLearning authoring usually there’s at least one or two who have been experimenting with the tool or they’ve watched some ‘how-to’...
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In my last post, I covered some terminology associated with images and different image file types. For part 2, I’m going to share 10 tips when using images in Articulate Storyline and for some you’ll need to click on the image and go to the Format tab under Picture Tools. Tip #1 Break the text-on-one-side-and-image-on-the-other habit! Go full screen with your images and overlay the text. There’s lots of way to do this, here’s some ideas that I wrote in another post along with links to even more ideas. Tip #2 When you want to resize an image (larger or...
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As eLearning developers we regularly work with images in our projects and while we aren’t all graphic designers, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the terminology around image properties and file types which is what this post is about. A 'pixel' is the unit of measurement used for digital images and when you see the size of an image, let’s say 450 x 300, the first number is always the width and the second is the height: The resolution of an image is different and is usually expressed as pixels per inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi)...
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