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58 Tips for Breakthrough eLearning Instructional Design

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Check out this free resource

58 Tips for Breakthrough eLearning Instructional Design

Contributing Editor, Chris Benz
Instructional Design (ID) is — or at least should be — the foundation for effective eLearning. Whether you are new to ID or have been designing eLearning for a while, it’s easy to get stuck in certain ways of doing things. That’s when you need some new ideas!

This complimentary eBook draws on the ideas and experience of 14 ID experts who are leading sessions that are part of The eLearning Guild’s May 2012 Online Forum on “eLearning Instructional Design: Advanced and Breakthrough Techniques.” These tips, which will enhance the way you design eLearning, are organized into four general categories:

  1. Research
  2. Design
  3. Development
  4. Project management

Visit the eLearning Guild to download this resource

Organize Your Life

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Organize your life and your team???

On IT Forum Bernie Dodge share the following list of apps that can be used to manage teams / tasks / projects:

  • Asana
    http://asana.com
    "Do great things. Asana is the shared task list for your team. The place to plan, organize & stay in sync."

  • Trello
    https://trello.com
    "Organize Anything Together"

  • Kanbanery
    https://trello.com
    "Kanbanery makes it easy for you and your team to keep track of projects and tasks at hand"

  • Wunderkit
    http://get.wunderkit.com
    "A new way to organize your life. Create, together… Organize everything…Access everywhere…"

  • Linoit
    http://en.linoit.com
    Online Stickies: Easy to post, see and peel off stickies

Which one’s aren’t listed above???

Creating Apps for Mobile Devices

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Creating Apps for Mobile Devices

On IT Forum someone asked about simple ways to create apps for mobile devices. Here is a list of what members recommended:

  • Bright cove
    http://www.brightcove.com/en/content-app-platform

  • mLearning Studio from RapidIntake
    http://rapidintake.com/mlearning-studio
    “very simple–no programming involved, and creates Web Apps, meaning they run on iOS and Android”

  • Gamesalad
    http://gamesalad.com
    “great for interactive not data driven app/game creation – Mac only”

  • The Learning Mag
    http://thelearningmag.com
    “Super easy, price is right… the app then works online/android/ios…”

  • LiveCode from Runtime Revolution
    http://www.runrev.com
    “In the case of iOS (the iPhone, iPad and iPod) you still must do the final step of using Apple’s software to publish the final app. But LiveCode is a thousand times easier than C++.”

  • Corona SDK
    http://anscamobile.com
    “The dev. community around it is very active (and growing faster than Livecode’s, which is why I went with it instead)” and “Great API…I use XCode for my IDE.

Which one’s aren’t listed above???

Getting to Know You: The First Week of Class and Beyond

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Check Out! Chapter 10: Getting to Know You: The First Week of Class and Beyond

Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal

“The first week of class… whether on-campus or online, we always plan a few orientation and get-to-know-you activities in an attempt to get our courses off on the right foot. One thing we have learned about these types of activities is that they
cannot—and should not—take place only during the first week of a class. To really support students and help build a productive online learning community, these types of activities need to occur throughout the semester. Below are a few activities we have
used to help students get oriented to and familiar with the course structure and materials, their course colleagues, and us…”

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