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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.

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