iSpring New Custom Character Builder Changes eLearning Forever
All eLearning design tools have character libraries but iSpring has added a powerful feature to create your own custom characters.
Category Archives: Training and Development
The latest and greatest on training and learning.
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.
Can ChatGPT Help You Get a Job Faster?
Learn how to use ChatGPT to land a job interview faster.
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.
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.
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.
Training Within Industry: A Historical Blind Spot in Learning and Development
The Training Within Industry service helped the U.S. win World War II and set the foundational principles for training and development and performance improvement best practices.
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.
Learning and Development Memes II
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.
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
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
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.
The Misunderstanding of Technology
Technology is just a tool we humans create and use. Yet, many of us seem to complaint and blame it for our own shortcomings.
PowerPoint Artistic Effects for eLearning Design
Most people think of PowerPoint as just a presentation software. Here’s how it can be used to create graphic novel looks for images with PowerPoint Artistic Effects.
Is the ADDIE Framework Better than the ASSURE Model?
ADDIE is the most known ISD framework, but it lacks in vagueness compare to ISD models. Learn how the ASSURE model compares to ADDIE.
Five New Year’s Resolutions for L&D
L&D New Year’s resolutions to become a better business partner and performance-driven learning professional.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tips on Academic to Corporate Instructional Design Crossover
Lately, I’ve been getting several requests from academic professionals for tips on how to cross over to the Learning and Development (L&D) arena. My first reaction to these requests was “Really? Why would you want to do that?”, I find it interesting because I’ve always been attracted to academic environments. After thinking a bit through […]
Barriers to Games and Gamification for Learning
Games and gamification have been around for hundreds of years. Last week I had the pleasure of participating as a panelist to discuss common barriers to games and gamification in organizational learning at DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas. I shared the floor with Marci Morford and Nick Floro who are well known practitioners of gamified learning […]
Video Editing Skills for eLearning Designers
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. […]
Explainer Video Apps for Learning Professionals
Explainer videos, you have seen them all over the place. Explainer videos are animated shorts presented in video format and about 3 to 5 minutes long What’s makes them so special and why should you, the learning professional, care? Well, this post answers those questions, gives you a sample and leaves you with a […]
Instructional Design is not Information Technology or is it?
Instructional Designers or IDs are in need of several skills which are often not developed in academic programs and are only gained by work experience. Even then, IDs have a propensity to be “techie” in their talk about project requirements and may often mimic the behaviors of an Information Technology or IT professional. You know, […]
The worst LMS in the world is Within your HCMS
The worst Learning Management Systems (LMS) in the world are likely the top-selling ones. Why are they the worst? They are the worst because you didn’t purchase a LMS, you purchased a small integrated portion of a Human Capital Management System or HCMS. I’ve used, implemented, managed and played with several systems and thus far […]
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 […]
It’s your eLearning authoring tool SaaSsy?
eLearning authoring tools have come a long way from the days we called it Computer Based Training or CBT. Today we have some great authoring tools that empower anyone with a few skills and lots of imagination to create highly engaging interactive experiences. There’s only one issue, many of the most popular tools like Adobe […]