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: Depressing Survey of L&D

Donald Clark has an interesting finding in his blog. So I thought I of sharing that bit of information via T-Bite. So here is the excerpt from Donald Clark’s blog post: It’s has been claimed by the likes of Donald Taylor and Jay Cross, that training must transform itself or risk being ignored. And there [...]

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: Top 5 Sites for E-learning Demonstrations

Here are the top 5 sites that give you good examples of e-learning: Enspire Learning: Demonstrations E-learning Examples MedlinePlus: Interactive Health Tutorials Cathy Moore’s E-learning Samples SkillSoft: Demonstrations

The Difference Between Technical Writing and Instructional Design

A lot of people frequently ask me about the difference between Technical Writing and Instructional Design. I had written a post about this earlier and also argued that you require more or less the same kind of skills for both these fields and it was completely my standpoint on these two professions. In this post, [...]

T-Bite: What is Web 3.0?

What if this  happens? You enter this sentence in Google:  ”I want to know where the best momos are available in Bangalore.”  Instead of throwing umpteen search results, Google gives you exactly the information you are looking for without you spending a lot of time on the web. This is something that might happen in [...]

A Tribute to All Web Resources that Make Life Easy!

Consider this: You are trying to understand a technical concept/ a complex concept/ a complex technology. You are at your wits end and you think there is no way you will understand it and then you find an article, a blog post,  a video or a podcast that make things simple for you. How do [...]

Clarity of Expectations – The Key to Effective Training Programs

Recently Linda Williams posted a discussion in the PINOT network. Linda in this discussion item talks about the importance of clarity of expectations. Let me repost the discussion here for you to quickly read it without signing into the network. Linda Williams: The last two years of my mother’s life she was in a nursing [...]