6 Quick Steps to Create a Game Based E-learning Course

If you play a lot of games, you will definitely be able to identify the standard pattern used.   Every game has a goal and the steps to solve it. The challenge of every game lies in how quickly and efficiently you reach the goal.   In games you can skip things and start with [...]

Are You Looking for Ideas to Build Elearning Demos for Your Portfolio?

Soon after I wrote this post here on the importance of creating a portfolio of elearning demos, I received mails from people saying they understand how important it is to create a portfolio, but then they are just not able to think of any ideas. I totally agree with them. It just too difficult to [...]

How to Build Quick Elearning Demos for Your Portfolio

I receive a lot of queries on how to crack interviews for Instructional Designing jobs. If you have good language skills and are creative, you can certainly get a fresh Instructional Designer position in an elearning company. If you are an experienced Instructional Designer and want to get into a really good job position then in that [...]

An Example of Customizing Tutorials to Meet Varied User Requirements

Creating multiple versions of one and same tutorial with customized content works well. This way you are catering to a variety of target audience requirements. A good example would be the introductory tutorials in the Snagit Learning Centre. Recently I downloaded the trial version of Snagit 9. Usually I do not pay attention to getting started tutorials [...]

Enhancing the Instructional Value in the Home Sweet Home Series

I thoroughly enjoyed playing Home Sweet Home series of games. You can read the summary of the games here. In this post I share some ideas that could probably improve the instructional value of the game. Before I proceed below is a snapshot of Ms Green’s kitchen. If you remember in my previous post I had [...]

Home Sweet Home Series : Instructional Games for Interior Design Lovers

Yesterday I downloaded the trial version of this highly addictive game called Home Sweet Home  at www.bigfishgames.com. I just could not stop playing. I was totally hooked into this game.If you love interior design and would like to try it out in a virtual set up, Home Sweet Home might interest you too.        Here is [...]

To Lock or Unlock Elearning Course Navigation

I just read a post Here’s Why Unlocking Navigation Will Create Better Learning by Tom Kuhlmann and totally agree with the way Tom argues that unlocking course navigation contributes to better learning. I have gone through quite a lot of courses where the navigation is very much controlled. In all these courses, you need to go module after [...]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Instructional Design – An Interesting Read

I just read an excellent post by Tom Kuhlmann on the value of Instructional Design. You have loads and loads of information on the web. Yet an e-learning course does make a difference by specifically focusing on what the learner wants to learn and by helping the learner learn in a way he or she [...]

Did you know?

I haven’t blogged this month.  I have been bogged down with loads of work. I guess this is not a reason for not blogging. I just did not have anything to say. It happens sometimes…. you just don’t know what to discuss or write about…. Well, I have been working on a lot of end [...]

I Hit a Century!

Hi All, With my previous post, I completed writing 100 posts in this blog. These 100 posts include my ideas and thoughts on Instructional Designing, links to useful articles on Instructional Designing and may be a couple of announcements. When I started off one year back, I was very unsure about how I would manage [...]