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Reduce Your Video Editing Time by 70 Percent with These Ai apps

Unlock the full potential of your video projects with the latest AI video tools. From text-to-video generators like InVideo and Fliki to AI video editors like Jupitrr and CapCut, and cutting-edge B-roll generators like Opus Clip and Jupitrr, discover how these platforms can transform your content creation process. Perfect for filmmakers, content creators, and digital marketers aiming for efficiency and creativity.

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Captions-to-Video Ai Generation with Jupitrr

Need to make an instructional video fast? Skip the tedious editing and get straight to Jupitrr, the Ai-powered app that jazzes up your content in a snap. Podcasters already dig it for audiogram creation, but its Ai Video Maker is a real game-changer, automatically adding captions and letting you insert relevant b-roll or images to your script with just a click. While it’s not perfect and may require a few tweaks, Jupitrr can save you loads of time, transforming a monologue into an engaging video. Give it a whirl and streamline your editing workflow!

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3 Exciting Ai-Powered Tools for Learning Professionals

Artificial Intelligence or Ai is everywhere today and many, I mean, many automation apps are now available. Apps like Opus Clip that takes video and chunks it in several bite size pieces, Jupitrr adds b-roll stock video to your existing narrated video, or ChatGPT4 that can be used to generate storyboard images based on course […]

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My 2023 Training Conference Recap

Training Conference 2023 took place a little over a week ago and it was amazing. Check out my main takeaways and what the experience can be like if you decide to attend.

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The StyleLearn Origins Podcast Reveals it All

There were exceptional challenges in the past that pushed the might of the American workforce to its optimal capacity. The catalyst for all this was training and the new StyleLearn Origins podcast brings you these powerful lessons.

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Learn Camtasia 2022 Video Editing for FREE

StyleLearn Courses just released the first section of the upcoming Camtasia 2022 Interactive Video course for free on our YouTube Channel. Whether you are new to video editing or have been using previous versions of Camtasia this course will be helpful for you. The free content consists of 20 videos covering all the basics such as editing functions, stock video and audio sources and it’s based on developing a 1-minute promotional video. #instructionaldesign #camtasia #corporatelearning #highered

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Top 5 Ways to Add Close Captioning to Your Videos

Close captions are a must on video as they help the deaf/hearing impaired consume video content. Here are 5 convenient tools for making quick, accurate and even free close captions #learninganddevelopment #elearning #edtech #instructionaldesign

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5 Effective Tips to Work Better with SMEs

Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are essential for any instructional design project. SMEs help ensure your learning content is accurate and also collaborate with you on gathering important resources. Here are five tips to better work with them.

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Is iSpring Space the right solution for you?

iSpring is one of the major players in the industry that has been around for 20 plus years. Recently, they have reinforced their suite of eLearning solutions with a collaboration platform known as iSpring Space. Let’s break down how iSpring Space answers intro questions and how it can meet your authoring needs.

Gamification: One of the features to love about IsEazy

IsEazy’s approach to gamification is by way of knowledge check games. An instructional designer can use these as engaging ways to elicit practice through repetition. The point is, yes, one can just write a few questions as a knowledge check, but that’s not too exciting. Instead, a gamified or microgame experience can be a much better experience as the game gives the user constant feedback of their progress.

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Baking Soda of Learning Design

Baking soda has a rich history as a multipurpose kitchen cleaner, leavening agent and even wound healing properties. Thus far, no one has claimed it to accelerate learning or help you create good learning objectives. Unfortunately, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been treated by many in L&D as the baking soda of learning design. Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals was published in 1956 with the sole purpose of standardize the way academic professors ensured learning objectives are aligned with examination item

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Learning and Development Memes

These Learning and Development (L&D) memes can teach you some of the industry realities you may want to be aware of as you enter this field or just chuckle. Enjoy! #instructionaldesign #elearning #learninganddevelopment

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10 Principles of Learning Experience Design

Learning Experience Design (LXD) is the creative and intentional process of designing learning experiences for lasting results. The concept of “learning experience” is nothing new, but it’s certainly full of ambiguity today. I mean, 100 years ago, scholars like Dewey, Thorndike and Lindeman gave us many thoughts that challenged institutional educational and learning practices.

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The Value of Learning Experience Design for Corporate Learning

As recent as three years ago there has been great impetus in the discussion of Learning Experience Design (LXD). Many recognized personalities in the L&D industry have written about it and as it can always be expected, capitalized on its commercialization. In this triumphant return of the StyleLearn blog we take a look at LXD from the business learning perspective and its value for improving workplace performance.

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Book Review: Evidence-Informed Learning Design

This book review is on Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating training to improve performance by Mirjam Neelen and Paul A Kirschner (2020) and according to the authors, its purpose is “to help learning professionals at any stage in their careers to focus on the right things, so that they can build a strong knowledge foundation, based on scientific evidence…”. Of course, the mention of the “right things” intrigued me, so I took a shot at reading and reviewing this book.

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The Cheapest Ways to Earn Your Free Ticket to Learning Conferences

Learning conferences are the best way to meet people that love the same thing you do for a living. They can also be a great experience of your professional development. However, they can be pricey to foot the bill on your own as most conferences average between $1300 and $1800 per ticket. Most people often attend conferences because they are sponsored by their employer, but what can you do if you employer sucks and doesn’t support this part of your development.

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Storyline 360 Four-Digit Countdown Timer

Storyline 360 is one of the Articulate flagship eLearning authoring tools. It’s simple, elegant and user-friendly, but it does not have built-in timers except for its quizzes. Since the release of Storyline 1, many designers in-the best community in the world- the eLearning Heroes Community have shared creative ways of simulating timers for use in […]

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Web design learning saga part 3: CSS

Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is the language used to control the layout and look of web pages. CSS is an essential tool for web design because it makes formatting across multiple webpages really easy. As a learning professional, you would need to know CSS if you want to design your own custom eLearning or […]

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3 Web languages every learning professional should speak Part 2/4

HTML5 or Hypertext Markup Language version 5 is the current language of the web. HTML is the language that defines the structure of a web page by using tags. Every webpage in the world has HTML, the code is really easy to learn. If you are a learning professional today; then you should really consider […]

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3 Web languages every learning professional should speak Part 1/4

Hypertext Markup Language or HTML, Cascading Style Sheets or CSS and JavaScript or Js are the three essential languages every learning professional should speak. Why? They are the languages that make up the Web. It’s 2018 and most of the content we consume is web-based. So, why not learn something that can greatly enhance the […]

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Camtasia9: Affordable and powerful eLearning multimedia

It was four years ago that StyleLearn introduced you to Camtasia on a previous post. Camtasia9 is the current version of this product by Techsmith and it still delivers amazing versatility to develop, edit and produce multimedia content.  In addition, Camtasia can be used to develop elearning courses as it’s capable of include quiz interactions and publish […]

Storyline 3 vs Storyline 360: Why bother?

A little over a year ago, Articulate released Storyline 360 as part Articulate360: A combination of all existing Articulate products and new additions under one subscription model. Storyline 360 replaced Articulate 2 with an improved mobile player, better motion path controls, and several other features. However, there was no release of Storyline 3 and customers […]