Instructional Design Review Checklists – Key to Quality E-learning

In any e-learning development company, storyboards and e-learning courses go through rounds of testing to ensure desired quality levels.  You should find a lot of blog posts on e-learning testing. All these articles talk about the importance of usability testing, learnability testing for e-learning courses.
When you talk of e-learning testing,  Instructional Design review is also [...]

T-Bite: Cost of E-learning

If you are into e-learning business, how much should you charge for the e-learning program you develop?
If you are buying e-learning, is the price quoted by your e-learning vendor acceptable or questionable?
These are common questions and a lot of experts have tried to answer these questions. So presenting to you some interesting articles [...]

The Importance of Readiness Assessment for Online Training Programs

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I have been offering training programs for Instructional Design and all the training programs I have done so far have been classroom training programs. Before I begin my training program, I make sure I do the following:

Give people a pretest to assess their [...]

A Case for Templatized E-learning Content

If you have checked my Linkedin profile , you must be knowing that I have positioned myself as an e-learning consultant now. One of my recent efforts have been towards helping the e-learning division in a top-notch  medical institution solve their problems. The e-learning division has a team of graphic designers and flash developers who [...]

T-Bite: What is HTML5?

According to Wikipedia ” HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such [...]

Anandadhara – An Asynchronous BL Approach to Teaching Music

Last weekend, we had an interesting online session for the members of Instructional Designers Community of India. During the session, Abhijit Patronobis of Monad Interactive demonstrated an e-learning module on music called Anandadhara. It was a very engaging session and it was interesting to see how music was taught to people using an asynchronous blended [...]

Why You Should Have User Centric Tutorials for Software Products

When you create tutorials  for a software product, it is very natural to capture the following:

Description about the product features
All tasks that one can do with each of the product features
Steps to complete each of the tasks

Most software product tutorials are product feature centric.
Here is an example  of a product feature centric tutorial for Camtasia. The very title [...]

How to Achieve Smooth Visual Effects in Videos Created Using Camtasia?

My post on how to increase call out lengths in Camtasia helped Tina Williams solve her problem. This feedback on my post prompted me to write this post with yet another useful tip
When I was working on my tutorial videos using Camtasia, I noticed that after I produced the video in a shareable [...]

Free Session on Learner Centric Methodology Used in E-learning on September 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM IST

The Instructional Designers Community of India  is hosting yet another free  learning session on September 19, 2009.
This time the session is about Learner Centric Methodology used in E-learning. The session coverage would be:
1. What is LCM?
2. How does LCM help design effective learning?
3. What are the key principles of LCM?
4. How does LCM benefit stakeholders?
5. A case [...]

A Short Video Tutorial on How Layers Work in Photoshop

I created this tutorial video in 2007 when i was exploring Photoshop myself. I had real difficulty understanding the concept of layers. That’s when I thought I must create this video which might be of help to many other beginners like me. Some people found this video useful and have left their comments.  A few [...]