PowToon Video Tutorial: How To Use PowToon In eLearning Video 5- Less Is More This PowToon Video Tutorial highlights the importance of keeping in mind the purpose of a Powtoon when placed into eLearning. PowToon is a free animated presentation software and a free animated video maker. The post PowToon Video Tutorial: How To Use PowToon In eLearning Video 5- Less Is More appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

How To Reduce Cognitive Load In eLearning You’ve heard the saying: you can’t see the trees for the forest. We live in the information age and most of us are swamped from the moment we wake up, so it’s important that your eLearning doesn’t add more stress, leaving learners drowning in the information forest. Fear not: Here at PulseLearning we have put together some useful ways to reduce cognitive load in eLearning. One concept per page. Make this your mantra. Presenting one key learning concept per page will reduce cognitive load and stop you from creating an information forest. Make it clear what the key learning concept is rather than allowing it to become lost in translation. Remove non-relevant items. At the end of the day, the goal of eLearning is to educate the audience, not entertain them. Reduce cognitive load by removing media elements not relevant to learning, and be selective when you do choose to use media elements - they should support and add to the learning experiences. Clear, concise writing style. Ok, so it doesn’t have to be clinical, but make sure the writing style is clear and on point, yet retains a human aspect. Remove excess words and statements that don’t relate directly to the topic. When using anecdotes, keep them short and be sure to create strong links back to learning concepts. Information access. Clever chunking of content helps to reduce cognitive load by providing learners with smaller, bite-sized pieces of information easily committed to memory. Using pop-ups or click-to-reveal mechanisms will allow learners to drill down and discover content one step at a time. These techniques also reduce the amount of visible content on the screen at any one time. Consolidate key learning. Tell them what you’re going to teach them, repeat it, and then tell them again. Consolidating key learning points at the end of each topic or module will increase knowledge retention. Consider consolidating processes into quick-reference guides as a way to reduce content in the learning module. Delivery variety. Cognitive load is reduced when information is absorbed through multiple mediums, for example, text supported with visuals that further demonstrate the concept. This technique is more successful than relying on one medium alone (especially text!) to get your point across and remembered. Use consistent structure. It’s ok to switch some parts of the brain to snooze mode. Through consistent structure and user experience throughout eLearning, learners will not need to continuously readjust to the experience, leaving more cognitive load available for information assimilation. Link back to learning objectives. Always create strong links back to learning objectives to reinforce key learning. Strengthening the links will make it easier for learners to grasp key learning points, therefore reducing brain power required to create these links. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Fade-In Animation This Prezi Video Tutorial shows how you can use Prezi’s fade-in animation tool to fade in your content, instead of revealing all of it at once. The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Fade-In Animation appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

PowToon Video Tutorial: How To Use PowToon In eLearning Video 6- The 3 Parts Of eLearning This PowToon Video Tutorial presents the 3 parts of eLearning and why PowToon is an excellent tool for creating short and focused business scenarios. PowToon is a free animated presentation software and a free animated video maker. The post PowToon Video Tutorial: How To Use PowToon In eLearning Video 6- The 3 Parts Of eLearning appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

IMETC 2015 theme is "21st Century Teaching and Learning Design" IMETC 2015 aims to address the main issues of concern in the pedagogies and will focus on aspects of delivery strategies, technological issues, curriculum development and instructional design. The event is still trying to present innovative, motivating, captivating, interesting, interactive and a personalised teaching environment. Through the sharing of research findings and best examples of practice we hope this IMETC2015 will contribute to all levels of education settings globally. IMETC 2015 Topics of Interest Strategies Primary education Secondary education Tertiary education Distance education Blended learning M-learning U-learning Technological Small media, big media Emerging technologies Collaborative support Learning management system (LMS) Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) Managed learning environments (MLS) Virtual learning environments (VLE) Web 2.0 Tools & applications Artificial intelligence Curriculum Development E-learning models Technogogy Pedagogical strategies Game based design Ubiquitous design Web tools Repositories Instructional Design Designing learning settings Creating learning courses Designing learning tasks Learning and cognitive styles Student Centred Learning (SCL) Personalised Learning Environment (PLE) Moderating, tutoring & facilitating Web 2.0 tools The 9th International Malaysian Educational Technology Convention 2015 (IMETC 2015) will be held in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, on September 13-15 2015. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

It’s Time For The Learning And Development Industry To Think Differently About How We Use Evidence To Improve Performance  In this new era of learning analytics and big data, eLearning teams will be required to show value. Organizations that are already collecting and analyzing data to make decisions -be it in sales, marketing, business planning, or strategy- will be looking across the organization to see which other departments and disciplines can provide data that shows their effectiveness and also that links in with business performance analytics. When you think about analytics in these terms, you can see that the need for Learning and Development to have evidence of what's working and how our activity becomes business critical and urgent. If you are basing your Learning and Development strategy on intuition and gut feel, then you might find the rest of the business starting to ask some searching questions. And you will need answers backed up with evidence! Research from IBM shows that analytics trump intuition with top performing companies five times more likely to be using analytics than low performers. If good data helps business perform better, isn’t it time Learning and Development started to collect its own data to show its impact on the business and help improve performance? Most definitely yes. The trouble is, most of the data we currently monitor are traditional "benchmarks" such as cost, completion rates, headcount, and hours spent training. These track cost and spend, but don’t help us make decisions about the future. We need to focus on evidence that helps us improve performance and move forward. The Towards Maturity Benchmark™ If you do not know how or where to start, you are in luck. Benchmarking organization Towards Maturity has just launched its 2015 benchmark program. Each year the program provides Learning and Development leaders with a chance to review their strategy against their peers and receive personalized feedback on their effectiveness. It originated in Europe and now Learning and Development leaders from 44 countries around the globe get involved. The data from Towards Maturity shows that only 1 in 5 Learning and Development leaders use analytics or benchmarking to improve the services that they deliver. Clearly, there is room for improvement here. As an industry, we need to step back and reflect on the effectiveness of our Learning and Development strategy in order to deliver a new vision for the future; we need to ensure we measure the right things to help our organizations understand the impact we have. The Towards Maturity Benchmark has been tracking this progress since 2003 and in that time has developed benchmarks that reflect current effective practices that are focused on business outcomes; not analyzing happy sheet data. I’d urge all eLearning professionals to get involved with this benchmark; the more that take part, the better the data and the better the outcome for your organization and the industry as a whole. The benchmark provides a confidential framework to reflect on your current learning strategy that has been refined by 3600 Learning and Development leaders and a wide range of industry experts. All those completing the process will receive a detailed Personalized Benchmark Report comparing activities against the top performing learning companies around the globe. What’s more, it is free during June and July. We have it in our powers to generate the evidence we need to demonstrate our value. Why wouldn’t we take that opportunity? Review your Learning and Development strategy and see how you compare with peers around the world with the Towards Maturity Benchmark: Start Your 2015 Benchmark This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

PowToon Video Tutorial: Learn How To Make An Animated Video In Under 10 Minutes This PowToon Video Tutorial presents you how to make an awesome animated video in ten minutes or less. PowToon is a free animated presentation software and a free animated video maker. The post PowToon Video Tutorial: Learn How To Make An Animated Video In Under 10 Minutes appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Copying And Pasting In Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how you can copy anything on the canvas - a frame, some text, or even the entire canvas! Watch this video to learn how to copy, paste, and more! The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Copying And Pasting In Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Corporate Training Insights From An Industry Insider: How To Hire The Best Temporary Learning Consultants Dear Jo, I’ve been considering hiring contract workers to help us with the sudden increase in our workload. While I’ve interviewed and hired numerous Learning and Development professionals for full-time positions, I wonder if there are different considerations when hiring temporary learning consultants. Thanks in advance for your response. —Darlene Dear Darlene, The short answer is "yes." I know from my own experience that there is a difference between hiring for temporary versus full-time positions. Frankly, I sometimes found it a bigger challenge to find the right temporary Learning and Development (L&D) consultants than it was to find permanent team members. I've seen the use of temporary staff skyrocket over the past several years and become a standard part of talent management. L&D budgets and demands being what they are, adding permanent staff is often a challenge, and yet as the demand for output grows, temporary staff can be the perfect solution. To best respond to your question, I decided to go to the source, my colleague Rodrigo Salazar. Rodrigo heads up Talent Solutions at SweetRush. I posed your question to him, and here is his response. "Great question, Jo, and in my response lie some key elements of what makes for a successful engagement for our clients and for learning consultants as well. Allow me share a few ideas: With temporary learning consultants you do not have the luxury of time to train, so I recommend that you hire talent with the right prior experience — someone who can hit the ground running. Keep in mind that with temporary staff you have the luxury of hiring those special skill sets that might not fit into a long-term staffing plan. A good example of this is hiring an Instructional Designer with experience in Articulate Storyline® or perhaps a graphic or user interface designer. You might not need that expertise all the time, but if it is critical to the success of a specific project, a temporary learning consultant can be the right fit. Sometimes you need someone with a variety of skills who can fill in several gaps — what I like to call a "learning generalist." This is often the case for our clients. If this is your situation, working with a staffing firm like ours that also specializes in learning can provide great benefits, because the learning consultant can draw on the skills and expertise of the larger firm. Hire someone with the right attitude for success — a learning consultant with a "can do" attitude who is a self-starter and takes ownership. You’ll spend less time handholding and getting the consultant grounded by ensuring your talent is a professional who will be proactive and engaged from day one. Don’t short-change the interview process, even though it’s a temporary hire. You don’t need to make it a 10-round interview marathon, but you do need to take time to make sure this individual is the right fit for the assignment. We relieve a great deal of the interview burden by interviewing, vetting, and culling candidates in advance, so our clients have to meet only talent we’ve already deemed worthy for the assignment. This allows clients to focus on qualified candidates and drill down on detailed questions specific to the project and company culture. Be as clear as possible about your expectations and deliverables during the interview process. If the picture is unclear —and sometimes it is— then hire a professional who can thrive even in ambiguous environments." These are excellent suggestions from Rodrigo, and I would add only one additional suggestion to the mix. Once you have found your ideal talent, find ways to integrate him or her into your existing team. This may be an e-mail welcome outlining your temporary learning consultant’s role and experience, assigning a buddy, setting aside time for a team meet-and-greet, or all three. Embracing all of your talent within a strong team culture will help set you up for success. Thanks, Darlene, for your question, and best of luck with your recruiting process! Do you have a question? I'd love to help. Send your question to me at dearjo@sweetrush.com! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Customizing Colors In Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how you can customize the colors of your fonts, frames, and arrows. Check out this video to learn how, and start customizing your colors. The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Customizing Colors In Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Webinar: Leverage Your SumTotal News Pages For Better Results In Enterprise Learning Ever wondered how to provide personalized learner experience using one of the most powerful built in features in SumTotal LMS, the customizable news content area to meet the learning needs of your enterprise? Join us for a free 30 minute webinar exclusively for SumTotal Customers to explore few real time examples of different domain specific custom news pages. This webinar will cover different use cases of custom news pages like : Various types of learning activities and resources that can be displayed. Integration of game dynamics to engage learners and make learning fun. Learning analytics that has the answers and insights for managers to take actionable solution. Transform your hierarchical course catalog information into a visually rich, interactive tech tree. Review of employee check list application for new hires to update training details and provide feedback on overall training program. And More...... Register for Free! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Changing Fonts Ιn Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how you can change the fonts at anytime from the Prezi library. Prezi has an array of fonts for you to use in your presentation. The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Changing Fonts Ιn Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

The Reason Why Rich Media Makes A Difference To Learning And Development Visuals improve your learning and drive engagement because our brains like getting information in multiple mediums. This article discusses the Why Rich Media Matters slideshare from Allen Communication and explains why rich media is critical to Learning and Development. Why Rich Media Matters from Allen Communication How We Process Our brains are built to quickly take in and process visual information. While the best learning will come from multiple sources, visuals are the first to trigger and process. This is because 40 percent of the nerve fibers in the brain connect to the eye and roughly half of our neural tissue is related to vision. This is why rich content is an integral part of any learning solution. The human brain makes quick connections through rich media and visual content that would take longer to make through another medium. How We Learn This is why Instructional Design must plan for and incorporate visual from the start. Rich media tells your learners a story before anything else does. Including a video, an infographic, or even a photo helps your learners. People who have visuals to go with instructions follow directions better and classroom learners retain information better when the instructor includes visual aids. All of this might have you wondering why we bother using anything other than rich media in training. If you’ve talked to Allen Communication’s CLO Michael Noble about learning types, you know he doesn’t subscribe to the theory of types of learners. He says we are all visual and auditory and kinetic learners. The best programs combine mediums for a more powerful effect. If your learners have text with a video, they will remember more than with text alone and vice versa. Because our world is becoming immersed in interesting visuals and on-demand information, your learners are changing and seeking this type of information out. More than half of executives in 2010 told Forbes they use YouTube to watch business-related videos, and the numbers are growing. You need to create training that involves rich media to meet learner needs and ensure success in your training programs. How We Engage Rich content doesn’t just change the way we learn, it has a big impact on whether and how we engage. Think about the last time you looked up a store or a business. Is part of your judgment based on what the website looks like? Or what about the last time you needed to buy a new computer? For most of us, the brand plays a big part in where we start, and a big part of how you remember and relate to brands is through visuals. Having beautiful, well designed visuals adds credibility to your message. It’s a visual cue to your learners that this information is important and trustworthy. This is true whether you’re in a classroom or taking a web-based course. Even one of the largest companies in the world has seen the impact of rich media. Just one month after the introduction of Facebook timeline for brands, visual content —photos and videos— saw a 65% increase in engagement. And websites or blog posts with visuals have almost double the views of those without. What to Do If you’ve wanted to include more or better visuals in your corporate training programs, but you’re not sure where to start, don’t lose hope. You can start small. With your next project, begin by thinking about what you can use visually that will tell the same story or complement the information you’re communicating. By building art design into the start of the program, you’ll keep down costs and time for design. You also will avoid having a last-minute scramble for what to include if you build it into the process. Always including rich media in your design process will help you build better, more effective training. What are your favorite examples of rich media in training? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Replacing Αn Ιmage Ιn Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how easy it is to replace any of your images in Prezi. Check out this tutorial to learn how you can swap your images from your computer or via our Google Image search feature. The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Replacing Αn Ιmage Ιn Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Free DevLearn Webinar: Inspiring Motivation in eLearning - Self-determination Theory in Practice eLearning is often viewed as a brain dump of knowledge, with far too little examination of how to motivate learners. While engaging design elements and interactivity can inspire learners to complete modules, they don’t necessarily inspire learners to keep learning and growing. So how can you motivate your learners? This free Best of DevLearn Webinar, Inspiring Motivation in eLearning—Self-determination Theory in Practice, from The eLearning Guild will explore the self-determination theory, a motivational theory identifying the three basic human needs required for growth and achievement: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Join Kristianna Fallows, Supervisor of Learning Design at JetBlue University, next Wednesday, July 22 at 10 AM PT to explore the proven business benefits of using SDT to motivate learners and learn new strategies for eLearning that can have long-term positive results for retention, employee development, and employee performance. Register for this free webinar now at: http://bit.ly/1HQKK18 Can’t attend the live webinar? Register anyway and we’ll email you a link to the recording after the event! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

What Your Boss Wants You To Know About Learning and Performance Ecosystems Where does the answer lie? One of the approaches is to work with a bigger picture of "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" and drive training through multiple channels (including formal and informal learning, social learning, and performance support). This combination ensures that multiple learning avenues are available to learners, and instead of one-off trainings, the focus shifts to "learning as a continuum". In this article I will address the questions that you may have while evaluating or adopting a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" based approach, and specifically how it can create a better learning environment in your organization. Q1) What is a Learning and Performance Ecosystem? One of the ways to define Learning and Performance Ecosystem is: "A learning and performance ecosystem enhances individual and organizational effectiveness by connecting people and supporting them with a broad range of content, processes, and technologies to drive performance". "A learning and performance ecosystem introduces new capabilities that integrate learning and performance solutions into the work environment. It minimizes the need for workers to leave work in order to learn, reduces work disruption, and places more learning opportunities directly into the flow of the work". Source here. Q2) Why is it required? Learning and Development professionals today face more challenging performance problems and many of these cannot be met through traditional learning strategies. As we saw in the definition, "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" is people-centric in nature. It offers a framework that you can use to supplement and complement your existing learning strategy. Having finite formal training (of durations that consume about 2-5% of learners’ annual work hours) can at best create baseline proficiency. It certainly cannot lead to mastery and this is another reason why formal training must be supplemented by other forms of learning approaches that are an integral part of a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem". It also helps mitigate the challenge of "The Forgetting Curve" that indicates that there is an exponential decline in our learning after a training session; if no reinforcement is provided. This can be addressed through Performance Support Tool (PST) intervention (alongside your formal training). Most of us are familiar with the 70/20/10 model that indicates that learning happens as follows: 70% from our on-the job experiences (includes handling challenges at work, solving problems, and so on). 20% from feedback and observing others (peers, boss, or role models). 10% from formal training. What this signifies is that formal training contributes to just 10% of our learning. Hence, informal learning (through Performance Support Tools) and collaborative learning (through social learning) can play a very significant role in equipping your employees to reach the desired levels of mastery. This is the core of a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" based approach. Q3) How can it be used practically in an organization’s learning strategy? I will address this question through our own experience. We draw inspiration from Dr. Conrad Gottfredson and Bob Mosher’s Five Distinct Moments of Need©. According to this model, learners seek support in the "Five Moments of Need," which are: When learning for the first time (New). When wanting to learn more (More). When trying to apply/remember (Apply). When something goes wrong (Solve). When something changes (Change). As you will note, the first two moments of need adapt to formal training (eLearning, mLearning, classroom, or blended) and the subsequent three to just-in-time Performance Support Tools (PSTs). You can use this model to band: Formal learning: For acquisition of knowledge. Informal learning: For application of knowledge. In the process, you can also mine your existing knowledge assets and assess if they could be converted to a Performance Support Tool format to improve learnability. Looking at the nature of the learning need, you can also integrate social learning. To see how Performance Support Tools can be integrated into your learning strategy, please refer to my article Performance Support Tools: Top 5 Things Your Boss Wants To Know. To illustrate how this can be designed, here is a quick glimpse of a typical "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" solution. Q4) What are the expected gains? There are following significant advantages that will reflect as gains for your learning strategy as well creating a richer learning culture. Holistic approach. It brings together all elements you should plan for in your learning strategy to help people not only learn better but perform better. This would lead to effective learning and its application will create a positive impact on business. Richer learning environment. Extending the learning from discrete elements to "learning as a continuum" will create a richer learning environment in your organization. Improved ROI on your training budgets. As the focus of a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" is on application of knowledge, this will have a direct bearing on creating a positive impact on business. This will lead to better ROI on your training investment. Q5) What are the challenges in implementation of "Learning and Performance Ecosystem"? Organizations often resist change and see a holistic approach like "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" as difficult to implement. Frameworks like this are often associated with terms like "difficult to apply", "not flexible enough", "cannot be customized", and so on. The reality is far from this. A "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" will add value to your current approach and provide a far more dynamic framework to deliver effective learning. More significantly, this will also equip the Learning and Development team to meet new performance challenges more effectively. I hope this article has helped you understand how adopting a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" based approach can help you enhance your existing learning strategy. If you have any suggestions/feedback, do reach out to me. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

JoomlaLMS 2.0. - How To Create An ELearning Course This JoomlaLMS 2.0. video explains the course creation process with the help of the course builder. The post JoomlaLMS 2.0. - How To Create An ELearning Course appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

How To Create eLearning Storyboards: 12 Tips For eLearning Professionals  Every successful online course has one thing in common: a solid foundation. If you don’t have a stable structure in place when you begin creating your eLearning deliverables, every aspect of your eLearning course will suffer as a result. This is why an effective storyboard is such a vital tool for eLearning professionals. The first storyboard in history was developed at the Walt Disney studios during the early 1930s, when animator Webb Smith came up with an alternative to describing a cartoon plot with words: He drew sequential scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinned them up to the walls of his office. eLearning storyboards ensure that you and the reader are literally on the same page, as it is a document that describes every single piece of your eLearning course, specifying its visual, text, audio, and interactive elements. You can use a storyboard to help the subject matter expert fill in their expert content, or to help your developer to use it as a blueprint for the final product in order to sequence the eLearning course according to your instructional design. In this article, I'll  share 12 tips to successfully create an eLearning storyboard, so that you can make your clients or supervisor(s) visualize the eLearning experience you have in mind. Select a storyboard template. There are many free storyboard templates out there, so the only thing you need to do is decide whether you want to use Word, PowerPoint, or a commercial application. Have a clear idea of your goals and objectives beforehand. Why are you creating this eLearning course? What are your main and secondary learning goals and objectives? What are the desired results? The answers will guide the whole storyboarding process. It’s essential to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve by creating the eLearning course. Identify exactly what the learner needs to take away from their eLearning experience and why they need to acquire the information in the first place. Meet with subject matter experts to find out what needs to be covered and what can be left out, so that you can determine how much data you are working with in advance. Know your target audience. Research is key to creating a successful eLearning storyboard. Conduct focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one interviews to learn as much as possible about your audience, including their educational background, culture, professional knowledge base, experience level, and what skill sets or knowledge you need to include in your eLearning course. Also, assess previous strategies that the client has used to identify what worked and what did not, so that you can develop a more effective eLearning storyboard. Figure out when and how you will assess your learning audience. While many people might assume that adding eLearning assessments is one of the final stages in the planning process, it should actually be one of the first. While you are creating your storyboard figure out where each of the tests and exams will be placed and what type of assessment is best suited for the subject matter and audience. Look at the storyboard, as a whole, and map out your knowledge checks, as well as lesson summaries and chapter recaps. In addition, include basic information about the eLearning activities and online exercises, such as the key points it must include, which learning goals they tie into, as well as how each will be graded. Write content for each of your eLearning objectives. Writing content for each of your objectives will help you keep your eLearning storyboard flow natural and your audience focused. State your topic, explain your idea, focus on key points, and maintain a conversational tone by using simple language, short sentences, examples, or metaphors, and asking questions. Furthermore, consider letting your audience think about the situations you present them and select the answers from a variety of options before moving on to your next topic. Organize your material by creating your content sequence. To support your eLearning objectives, you need to define the right design elements. Gather the learning material from the subject matter expert and all information necessary from your client to organize your content. Break your content up into chunks and modules to effectively depict it in your storyboard. Then, decide about the sequence your eLearning content is going to be presented to your audience. The more natural is the order flow of your content, the more effective your eLearning course will be. Think of what topics or units should come before or after others and arrange accordingly. A good tip is to title every page of your storyboard. Although titles will not  appear on the final product, they will help you organize your content more easily. Decide upon the multimedia elements. Images and graphics, animations, eLearning videos, all these and a lot more help your audience capture best the message you need to get across. Decide upon all the multimedia elements you will incorporate into your eLearning course by including an analytical description of each in the corresponding part of your eLearning storyboard. Be sure to leave room on each screen for visual and audio elements, such as clips, narrations, and interactive scenarios. It's a good practice to note their position on the page by drawing a rough sketch or by adding a text description. Be as detailed as possible when storyboarding interactions. As your progress through each screen of your storyboard include every interaction that needs to be integrated into the final design. For example, if you need to redirect your learner to the first screen of the second module when they click on a button, mention that in your storyboard. Do this for every activity, assessment, and navigation icon in your eLearning course so that you don’t run the risk of broken hyperlinks or a disorganized navigational flow. Add your script. After selecting all media types you will use, start writing the corresponding narrative scripts. Keep screen text short and to the point, as it's going to be further explained in your voice overs. You have only one chance to deliver your points, so remember that too many words on each screen may tire or even bore your audience. Include the script for any narrations and the individual branches for your scenarios and simulations into your storyboard for every screen of your eLearning course. Prevent cognitive overload. Bear in mind that the storyboard is going to serve as a guide as you move forward in the development process.  So, now it's time to take your final decision about how much content you are going to include on each page and how you are going to deliver the information. If you have a lesson that may be lengthy or contain an abundance of text, then break it down into more digestible modules and only include the key takeaways. By taking cognitive overload into consideration at this stage you can create an eLearning course that is concise and cohesive instead of having to make major modifications during the final revision process. Don't forget to revise your script accordingly. Map out the eLearning course navigation. Decide where to put the next and back buttons, what graphics you will use to denote these actions, and how your eLearning course will respond to specific behaviors of your audience. For example, you can outline what will happen if a learner provides an incorrect response or clicks on a link that redirects them to a third-party site. Creating an outline for all of these branches will make the design process much easier, as you will already have a clear idea of which navigational elements belong on each page. Include transitions between each lesson. Storyboarding gives you the opportunity to plan out every detail of your eLearning course, including how and when you will transition between slides and modules. Include transition screens between topics and make a note of how you will transition to the next segment. Also, don’t forget to include a brief summary of what they learned in the current lesson, as well as what they can expect to learn in the next to pique their interest. Additionally, you can allocate time for reflection at this point, so that your learners have the opportunity to review what they have learned and tie it to real world applications. This not only brings value to the eLearning course, but also boosts knowledge retention by enabling your learners to commit the information to long-term memory. Keep these tips in mind to create effective eLearning storyboards. It may be true that no two eLearning courses are alike, but every eLearning experience should begin with a successful storyboard. Now that you know how to create an eLearning storyboard, you may be interested in taking your eLearning presentations to the next level. Read the article Top 10 Tips To Create Effective eLearning Presentations and Slideshows and learn how you can produce amazing, interactive, and highly engaging presentations and slideshows for your learners. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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JoomlaLMS 2.0- Introducing JoomlaLMS 2.0 This JoomlaLMS 2.0. video introduces JoomlaLMs 2.0. After a long process of redesign and redevelopment we couldn’t be more excited to introduce JoomlaLMS 2.0! Mobile adaptiveness, modern layout, course builder, GoToMeeting integration, Joomla! 3.4 compliance and much more! The post JoomlaLMS 2.0- Introducing JoomlaLMS 2.0 appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Prezi Video Tutorial: 3D Backgrounds in Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how to make your presentation pop by adding your own 3D background. Watch the video to learn how to impress your audience with custom a single or multi-image 3D background! The post Prezi Video Tutorial: 3D Backgrounds in Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Prezi Video Tutorial: The Big Reveal in Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how to add a little more suspense to your presentation! Just check out this video to learn about a technique that we like to call ‘the big reveal’! The post Prezi Video Tutorial: The Big Reveal in Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Quiz - Multiple Choice Question Want to create interactive Multiple Choice Question for your eLearning course? Watch this video in which you can learn how easily you can create MCQ type of question Using one of the famous eLearning authoring tool - Adobe Captivate. The post Adobe Captivate 8 Tutorial - Quiz - Multiple Choice Question appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

Prezi Video Tutorial: Reusing Your Content (Saving To Favorite) in Prezi This Prezi Video Tutorial shows you how to save and reuse your content…with ease. To save time when creating a new prezi, why not try reusing your content? The post Prezi Video Tutorial: Reusing Your Content (Saving To Favorite) in Prezi appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.