5 Quick Tips to Reduce Editing Time in Camtasia Studio

Editing a video using Camtasia is a bit of a challenge for newbies – you will agree to this, if you are a regular user of Camtasia. But I think every tool has its pain points and there is always a learning curve with all  e-learning or screen capture tools. You really need to figure [...]

20 Tips to Get Started With Your First E-learning Project

This is my first post for this year. I have not been able to blog due to lot of changes that’s been happening in my professional life. Anyways, here I come, once again, to share the little knowledge that I have. This blog post is for those venturing into custom e-learning business or people who [...]

Is it Okay to Punish Your E-Learners for not Paying Attention?

In school, I have been punished a lot of times – reasons :  homework not done, shoe not polished, stepped into the class late etc. I used to hate punishments and always wondered why teachers cannot be a little lenient or deal with these issues in a better way. Now consider this e-learning course : [...]

Do You Tell Your Learner “You’re Doing it All Wrong!” to Teach the Right Way?

A lady demonstrates 2 or 3 ways of making grilled cheese sandwich and tells you “You’re Doing it All Wrong!” She finally teaches you the steps to make a cheese sandwich the right way. How would react to this? Would you relate to the things that you might be doing wrong and try to learn [...]

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 [...]

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

By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon 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 [...]

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 as Adobe [...]

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 [...]