Author Archives: Mike Taylor

Put Learning on a Diet

I TOTALLY agree with Elliott on this one. I’ve personally experienced the 5 day course that should have been only 1 day max. The “inertia” of these courses makes such drastic changes  very difficult. At least in my organization.  If anyone has had success with such course changes I’d love to hear what approach workedContinueContinue reading “Put Learning on a Diet”

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9 Free Tools To Build Better E-Learning

As usual Tom has another great post. Many of these I’m already using or something very similar.  If you’d like to explore these types of tools further check out Jane Hart’s Top Tools lists – one for learners and another for learning professionals.  To Tom’s list I’d add Picnik.com, Fotoflexer or your favorite online photoContinueContinue reading “9 Free Tools To Build Better E-Learning”

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Blender – Training Solutions: Rapid Performance Analysis

Great post Joe. What is the problem and is it worth pursuing? In many cases it may be more expensive or anti productive to address the problem then it would be to leave well enough alone. You always want to be sure that you are going to get a justifiable return on your investment. IsContinueContinue reading “Blender – Training Solutions: Rapid Performance Analysis”

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Learning Visions: Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark)

I mentioned this to some colleagues in another part of our organization and they ignored it because “..it’s only aesthetics.” Guess you can only lead the horse to the water…. "Decorative visuals defeat learning." and "The least successful learning resulted from text and audio repetition of that text." Learning Visions: Visuals and Audio in eLearningContinueContinue reading “Learning Visions: Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark)”

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