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.
Keeping up with the series of Learning and Development Memes, here’s the second collection of awesome memes. I hope you get a laugh after a hard week of work.
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
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.
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 […]
Video editing is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of what an eLearning designer does. The reality is eLearning designers need to know the basic of several disciplines to create highly engaging learning experiences. Video production and editing skills are priceless for the effectiveness of any multimedia eLearning project. […]
A few days ago I created a PowerPoint slide deck on gamification that I published on SlideShare. However, an animated introduction of the title was created to mimic the game of Tetris as shapes would fall down and form the name of the title. This post discusses the creative process to replicate the same effect […]
This week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #114 highlights the use of zooming and magnification of images with Storyline2 (SL2). I put together a sample which shows an image of London which allows the user to zoom into specific sections for a closer look of the city. The “Zoom Region” feature in SL2 makes the creation of […]
A scenario using First Person Role Play (FPRP) is a great way to engage learners from the start in e-learning courses. If we think of it, the idea of playing a character in e-learning scenarios aligns very well with the notion of adults being self-directed learners. In the gaming industry, games that apply this concept […]
One key advantage of Articulate’s Storyline2(SL2) is the ability to control interactions from a slide master. This makes changes and updates a painless and automated approach which would save you a ton of hours. Slide masters are usually helpful to standardize design elements such as fonts, image placement, formatting, backgrounds, etc. They are essential for […]
ELearning Heroes Challenge #100 is here and it’s all about “Before and After” visual comparisons and contrasts. By the looks of it, we might get 100 responses to the 100th challenge! In this post, I cover a bit of the method behind two slider samples I built for the challenge. The first slider sample was […]
Animating images in your elearning project can add some screen movement to give your learners context or grasp their attention to focus on certain area of the screen. Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics and motion picture effects software that allows you to bring still images to life. In this AndragoBlog post we’ll take […]
Articulate Storyline is perhaps the best solution for elearning authorware and aELearning Heroes Challenge (ELH) is a great way to get you working with it. This week’s challenge #79 is about custom menu navigation. There are many advantages to creating your own navigation menus and SPACE is definitely one of them. Using Storyline’s default player […]
For this week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #78 the mission was to share some icons that would be used in elearning projects. So, I refreshed some old school PowerPoint tricks to draw vector icons for this challenge. PowerPoint has some cool features that can make designing these icons a fun a creative exercise. On this […]
Adobe Captivate CS8 and Articulate Storyline2 are considered the leading elearning authoring software tools due to their ability to generate great learning interactions. Captivate has been in the “game” for about 11 years while Storyline’s first version was released in 2012. I get often asked this question at work: “Hey Alex, we are going to […]
Many of us always dreamed of having our own business and making it BIG. Many of you reading this blog may have done just that and I respectfully bow to you for your awesomeness. A huge part of conducting business is billing. Invoices are the main drivers for getting PAID and blissfully managing your Account […]
