Often, when designing elearning courses, a simple animation is more effective in capturing attention and explaining a concept than a static illustration. Camtasia is great for creating quick and effective animated videos and it is more than just a video editing tool. Whether you need animated Intros or Outros for your videos, or an explainer animation for your elearning course, Camtasia is easy to learn and use.  

Webcams on or off: Do you have a preference? Many people do! In this webinar, we’ll present the findings of a recent survey of learning professionals focused on webcam practices and perceptions. Learn about how our perceptions and use of webcams have developed during the pandemic, and the webcam practices, norms, and woes that surround our use of this important learning and communication technology. A research brief summarizing the findings will also be available to attendees at the time of the webinar.

Are you like many instructional designers and trainers who are being asked to meet the growing training needs of hundreds of employees and customers? Even if your team is able to support this increased demand, they likely won't have adequate time to close the loop and analyze the effectiveness of the content you meticulously crafted. This can lead to a slippery slope, wherein teams continuously create and share training content without knowing the true impact on their audience. 

According to Fortune magazine’s list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America," 81 percent of workers in companies on the list report that they work in a fun environment. In fact, the variable of "fun" is the most distinguishing variable between those companies who make the list and those that do not. Employees at the best companies are having the most fun and if you make fun part of your work culture, your employees will fare better as well since fun is a proven driver of productivity, results, creativity and better relationships.

Virtual and hybrid events are complex machines with lots of moving parts. Internal friction between those parts can degrade the experience for learners, presenters, and hosts. We identify common sources of friction and how you can address them to make your next event a smooth running machine.

There’s a lot of advice "out there" around leading and developing salespeople. But irony is that most advice is focused on improving half of this word: sales. Sales forecasting, sales pipeline management, sales metrics. What’s missing is the last half of the word, which is people.

"Color," a word that many take for granted. A design element that is a key part of all visuals and embraced to a theoretical level by graphic designers, but an element that is often misunderstood or misrepresented by those outside of the graphic design space.

Built-in vidcam and crappy microphone? You can do better   Are you waiting for services like Zoom and Teams and all the others to offer tools to make you look better, sound clearer, and be more charismatic? That would be a pretty neat trick. But you can do better than connecting your notebook and yammering on. Way better. And let’s not kid ourselves, virtual presenting will be with us long after Covid - in our offices and in our spare bedrooms.

Ready to rock and roll with Adobe Captivate? Learn to create an exciting eLearning Course that hits all the right notes! Just take part in a 90-minute hands-on introduction by Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to take your eLearning journey to new dimensions. What’s more, earn a valuable certificate upon creating your own short project.

For many organizations, the learning ecosystem extends far beyond the four walls of the organization. Although, extended enterprise comprises a relatively small chunk of the L&D budget, it represents a huge opportunity for organizations to build their brand, improve customer relationships, and even generate revenue. Brainier partnered with The Brandon Hall Group to develop this research brief on the state of extended enterprise learning and its future. In this research brief, we’ll cover four key considerations in planning an extended enterprise learning endeavor, as well as case studies of organizations finding success in doing so. Key considerations include: Building the business case Finding the right technology Defining the audience and characteristics of requirements Strategizing your revenue goals for the program

For adding narration to your eLearning courses, you need to change your writing style a bit to make it sound more natural to the ears instead of the eyes. Though the general writing principles are the same for on-screen text and narration, there are some nuances that you need to take care of when authoring the voice-over scripts.  

A killer start-to-finish approach to making AMAZING presentations quickly. Mike shares tips, tricks and tools from his newest book, A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters. Learn how to improve understanding, recollection and adoption using three simple techniques.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the workplace in unprecedented ways. Whether it’s the dramatic increase in employees working remotely or the blurring of boundaries between our personal and professional lives, the pandemic has created new dynamics between employer and employee. As these trends evolve, employers will need to be proactive and recognize the expanded role they’ll play in their team’s physical, mental and financial well-being. Accepting this role and supporting their employees’ well-being will be essential to maintaining a productive, satisfied workforce. Download the full white paper to learn more. 

It’s time to make your job training online easier. And there’s no better or more effective way than putting people in charge of their learning with interactive techniques. In this session, Becky will model effective use of the most common tools across online platforms. Experience the difference in energy, engagement and fun—and see how easy it is to incorporate these tools into your training.

Are you struggling to get the supervisor involvement that is necessary to have effective training programs? Attend this webinar to find out the one, game-changing question that will generate the support and involvement required for your programs to impact on-the-job performance and create meaningful results.  

During turbulent times like this, you hear many people talk about the "resistance to change" and how this phenomenon impairs an organization’s ability to rapidly adapt and respond.

Most organizations don't have to time to build custom content for their training program, but they want to be sure the content is high quality and well-vetted. Enter off-the-shelf content. Using off-the-shelf content for training saves time and money and allows you to offer more variety of content than if you had to produce everything yourself. Plus, you can be sure the information employees are getting is more reliable and well researched than something they'd find on Google. In this ebook, you'll learn how to maximize off-the-shelf content. You'll also learn: How to further optimize off-the-shelf content with the right learning technology Tips for choosing an off-the-shelf content provider How to use off-the-shelf content as part of a blended learning solution

Research shows that way too many multiple-choice questions have serious writing flaws that damage assessment quality and validity, making the data from these questions hard or impossible to interpret. Poorly written multiple-choice questions can cause serious problems for participants and organizations, so we need to avoid them!    

Marketing has played an escalating role in learning and development programs and solutions for the past few years. Organizations have begun to integrate substantial marketing strategies and tools to ensure more comprehensive compliance, promote upskilling programs, track customer education initiatives, and promote organizational positivity toward change management initiatives.

The more relevant and relatable a piece of eLearning is to the learner, the more effective it’s going to be. But are you sure that your eLearning remains both relevant and relatable when it’s read by colleagues in another part of the world, or in another language? Creating eLearning for global audiences isn’t just about making the content available in the languages in use at your organization—though that’s obviously important! It requires an extra layer of course planning to ensure that those ‘relevant and relatable’ boxes remain ticked. Download the eBook to discover: How the right localization process will lead you to more engaging results Key language issues that even non-speakers should understand The importance of having imagery that reflects familiar public spaces and local customs The implications of different cultural preferences such as uncertainty avoidance and power distance index How to better use language selection, display conditions, collaboration tools, and other key features to build better courses

Remember last year?  Well, don’t forget because it’s not over yet.  Everyone made up in their minds, that come 2021, we’d be back to normal.  Of course, that is not happening as quickly as we’d hope.  It seems the likelihood that we go back to 2019 NORMAL is zilch.  We are all in a continuing giant change, and change is always tough. 

We’re all well aware that today’s workforce is very different then that of just last year. Whether your organization is now returning to the office, staying remote, or implementing a hybrid model, there is a need to connect employees together and create meaningful collaboration to support organizational priorities. Plus, employees are looking for ways to stay connected with each other and methods for accelerating their ability to upskill in areas critical to team, organizational and personal success.

Considering whether virtual reality is right for your training needs? In this eBook, you’ll discover 5 training instances where VR excels. We showcase real-world examples and tell you exactly why virtual reality training works! See how organizations across industries saved money, increased learning retention, and more. The examples in this book will also serve as inspiration for your own immersive learning projects. Remember, anything is possible in virtual reality!

As today’s organizations stare down the challenges of ever-increasing compliance regulations, unpredictable turnover, and rapidly expanding cultural and learning style changes among employees, companies are looking for new ways to automate and scale their training efforts. More and more, they’re finding that help in video. Adaptable to both formal and informal learning needs, video overcomes today’s most common training challenges. It helps instructors increase training quality, speed and effectiveness — all while significantly lowering program costs. But of course, today’s learning and development professionals already understand the potential that technology can offer in the modern training environment. Their real challenge? Convincing their organizations to do more. In this paper, we help L&D practitioners tackle that challenge head on, including: 5 benefits that help convince your decision makers to use video in more ways 14 ideas for supporting and scaling formal and informal learning with video 1 technology — the video platform — that simplifies the use of video for L&D Video training is no longer a novel idea. It’s the new normal. Make sure your organization isn’t missing out. Click below to download this White paper from Panopto.