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4 Simple Steps to Online Course Review With ReviewLink
e-Learning Lesson in Lectora: Build Engaging Games for Mobile Devices
Adding games to your e-Learning courses is a great way to increase engagement and assess how well learners are retaining information. When creating games, Flash is one possible option. Many Flash games are super-interactive and easy to customize, but Flash is not supported on popular iOS devices such as the iPad or iPhone. As these mLearning devices continue to rise in popularity, you will need to find Flash alternatives that enable you to include games in courses while still making training assessable on iOS phones and tablets.
Today’s e-Learning Lesson in Lectora® shows how you can build your very own...
Learning Styles Awareness: Less About Styles, More About Design Part 2
Learning Styles Awareness: Less About Styles, More About Design - Part 1
Free ReviewLink Tips and Video Tutorials – Part 2
If you liked the recent blog Free ReviewLink Tips and Video Tutorials – Part 1, you’re in luck! Today’s blog brings you even more handy hints and video demos for speedy, streamlined review in ReviewLink™ Beta collaborative e-Learning review tool. Enjoy!
1. Allow Reviewers to See Others’ Comments: In ReviewLink, you have the option to choose whether or not your reviewers are able to see one another’s comments. Choosing this option benefits both you and your reviewers in a number of ways. When reviewers and publishers can see all comments, you create an open, social environment where everyone can interact and communicate with one another. In addition, this option also makes sure that the...
How to Export a Snap! by Lectora Quiz into Lectora
Lectora® e-Learning software and Snap! by Lectora rapid e-Learning software are two equally awesome content-creation tools for building the sleekest e-Learning courses on the planet. Although each tool packs a punch on its own, today’s blog shows how you can harness the power of both Lectora and Snap! by Lectora while authoring a single course.
One of the best features in Snap! by Lectora is the quiz creation tool. In a matter of minutes, anyone can quickly build and customize a quiz with a variety of question types, including drag and drop, matching, multiple choice and more. Once the quiz is complete, it can then be added to a Snap! by Lectora course – OR, you have the option of exporting the quiz into Lectora.
The video tutorial below instructs how to customize a quiz in Snap! by Lectora,...
Applying Gamification to e-Learning
You’ve probably heard the term “gamification” in recent e-Learning discussions: at conferences, in training articles and blogs, and even across the web on your favorite social media sites. Your first instinct may be to associate this word with adding interactive games to e-Learning courses. Although this is one way to interpret it, gamification has multiple definitions and includes a number of possibilities for interweaving training with gaming.
Like you, we were curious to learn more about gamification and see how it can be used in an e-Learning context. Today’s entry provides two interpretations of the term and lists multiple ways that you can apply gaming techniques to your e-Learning courses and training.
Definition 1: The Gamification Blog sees gamification in its most literal sense: using games to teach...
e-Learning Lesson in Lectora: Make Media More Interactive
One of the benefits of e-Learning versus traditional classroom training is the ability to add exciting, interactive elements to courses. Today’s e-Learning Lesson in Lectora® shows you yet another great way to wow learners as they navigate through your training: adding synchronized events to media files. In this session, expert Lectora Trainer Jamie Hale instructs step-by-step how to take ordinary audio and video to the next level by incorporating questions, text blocks, animations and more into recordings. Adding events to media files using Lectora e-Learning software is not only fun - it increases interactivity for learners and holds their attention throughout your entire course.
Before you get started, here are a couple tips to consider when adding synchronized events to audio and video:
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Add Professional Title Graphics to Camtasia
When creating and editing videos using Camtasia® screen recording software, there are plenty of easy ways to add pizzazz and visual appeal to your projects: using zoom and pan, inserting transitions, adding images, etc. To make your Camtasia videos within Lectora® Inspire e-Learning software stand out even more, you can also add introductions to projects by inserting title graphics at the beginning of videos.
In this podcast by Diane Elkins of Artisan E-Learning and E-Learning Uncovered, you’ll learn step-by-step how to add professional, aesthetically pleasing title graphics to your Camtasia projects. Using the Camtasia Library tab, Elkins instructs how to combine the following elements to tailor the perfect video introduction:
- Audio, such...
Incorporating Web Resources into a Corporate Learning Curriculum
This is a guest blog written by Maria Rainier. Please see below for her full bio.
There has never been a better time than now to use the Internet for the purpose of e-Learning. This is especially true when educating adults, whose learning needs are different from the needs of younger learners. Adults often require a more concrete idea about how what they are learning may relate to the real world. As such, incorporating a few online training resources, particularly audio and video clips that demonstrate real-world applications of theories and skills they are learning, is especially important. Here are a few resources that I find especially enlightening:
RSA Animate
RSA Animate is a series of cartoon...
