Archive for Category: training

Hat Tip: How to Get Your eLearning Audience Hooked From the First Slide

Check out this great article from eLeaning Brothers on making the most out of the first minute you have in a course to capture your audience’s attention. How to Get Your eLearning Audience Hooked From the First Slide

Building Assessments (>_<)

You’ve spent weeks developing an amazing course and now it is time to create the assessments. Nothing kills an award-winning course like a poorly developed assessment. There is more to creating a good assessment than pulling the main points...

Hat Tip: Why Understanding Learner Motivation Is Key for Gamification

Know your audience! This is drilled into our heads whether you are an instructional designer, technical writer, or content writer. However, we often forget about what our audience wants and needs because we get caught up in our...

ATD’s Research into Instructional Design Skills, Challenges, and Trend

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) conducted research into the skills, challenges, and trends in instructional design. As they state, the primary purpose was to focus on instructional design competencies and the designer’s role in talent development. ATD conducted...

The Epitome of Accelerated Learning

Tim Ferris. This gentleman’s name has been popping up everywhere in my life lately. I thought he was just the author of a fun cookbook called the 4-Hour Chef that my boyfriend and I enjoyed using in the kitchen. Recently...

Hat Tip: How Much Do Images, Videos and Infographics Boost Content Marketing ROI? – Scripted

via How Much Do Images, Videos and Infographics Boost Content Marketing ROI? – Scripted.

11 Instructional Design Truths According to Cats.gifs

It’s been an incredibly long but exciting week at Training Magazine’s 2016 Conference. I’ll post some of the great information that I walked away with, but while I am recuperating I figured I’d share a funny article originally published...

Hat Tip: What Writers Need – and Don’t Need – From SMEs

In my post Ten Tips for Interviewing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). I provided recommendations for writers when working with SMEs. On Larry Kunz’s blog, Leading Technical Communication, he posted a great article that takes a different but complimentary view....

Training Magazine Conference 2016

I will be attending and speaking at the Training Magazine Conference in Orlando Florida February 15th – 17th. You can follow what’s happening on Twitter – @jessiner, #trgconf. I’ll periodically post interesting tidbits. It’s looking like it will be a...

Ten Tips for Interviewing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Today’s post is inspired by the above graphic. I’ve had this hanging on my bulletin board for years. I don’t recall where I came across it, but I found a copy of it on Cathy Moore’s Pinterest page. It...