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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.

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Design Learning Experiences with Synapse

Synapse is a learning experience design tool for documenting the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation or ADDIE process of instructional design.  As an instructional designer, I always struggled with limited resources to document all stages of a learning project.  Often this meant having to manually deal with content versions, shared drives, spreadsheets, and other resources.  In […]

Effective Software Training Strategies

In a world where most businesses use many computer applications to document and track transactions; trainers often struggle to provide effective software training.  The most common occurrence explaining why this happens is the appointment of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the application to conduct the training.  SMEs tend to view the world through their our […]

Let’s take it to the Bridge: The LMS Review

Instructure is the company responsible for one of the most revolutionizing Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Higher Education: Canvas! Now the company takes on the business world head on with its newest LMS solution aptly named Bridge. StyleLearn had an exclusive view of Bridge at Instructure’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following is […]

Articulate Storyline2 Navigation Menu Challenge

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 […]

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How do Instructional Designers get things done? A Podcast Challenge

Instructional Designers are a very misunderstood occupational breed, That’s why I was glad to see that this week’s ELearning Heroes Challenge #67 was to record a podcast to answer a set of questions driven to provide new insight to those not familiar with the skills and responsibilities of an Instructional Designer (ID). Traditionally, IDs have […]

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Starting the Year Right with ELearning Heroes Challenges

If you develop your elearning courses with Articulate Storyline there’s no better way to start the year honing your skills and creativity by completing an ELearning Heroes Challenge (ELH).  This week’s challenge was a tough one and it forced me to come up with creative ways to combine three awesome templates into one unified design.  To […]

Take Your Training to the Next Level with Augmented Reality (AR) Apps

Nowadays, the average learner spends as much as 30% of their day interacting with a mobile device.  According to ExactTarget.com’s 2014 Mobile Behavior Report “Smartphone users spent an average 3.3 hrs and tablet users 3.1 hrs per day on their respective devices”.  Talent, training and learning development professionals can maximize on the focus and attention […]

To SAM or Not To SAM?

The Successive Approximation Model or SAM is the latest and greatest proposal in Instructional Systems Design (ISD) getting significant fanfare by the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD).  However, if you are a learning professional, leader,  trainer or instructional designer you have probably heard of ADDIE as “The” instructional design model to follow for more […]