Showing posts with label top tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top tips. Show all posts

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Psst...wanna gossip about elearning?


"Did you see the elearning that that team created? You know the one that was really boring and no one could remember a thing about? Remember how every screen was packed with information and endless text bullets? And how the learners were completely bored but had to sit through it because it was compliance training?"

You did?

Hopefully you weren't the designer on that one!

In this month's top tip on the Kineo website, we explore the juicy subject of gossip and how you can use it to tell better stories.

Photo credit: Gossip by exquisitur


Friday, November 12, 2010

Three Tips for Putting the Humanity Back into E-Learning and More Top Tips

Oh, the humanity!  Is your e-Learning turning out more like a horror show for zombies than a program that actually helps, gasp, people?

Three tips for stopping the horror and putting the humanity back in:

  1. Start with the learner, not the content
  2. Get emotional
  3. Watch your tone

For more of the meat on this one, read the full top tip on our website: Tip 44: Where’s the humanity?

And be sure to check out more top tips, including the latest: Tip 45: Video – bring out your inner guerilla

Friday, September 10, 2010

Kineo Top Tip: Bring the learner into the design

Check out my latest eLearning top tip offering on our site:

Tip 42: Bring the learner into the design

Who’s at the heart of the eLearning design process?  Why the learner, of course!  And yet, the dear learner so often lies lonely and forlorn amidst the piles of binders, the loads of text bullets and the pages and pages of content.  So how can you bring them front and center?  Why, bring them into the design process! 

Read more…

Be good to get your thoughts.  What are ways you keep the focus on the learner during your design process, especially on rapid projects with tight, tight turnaround times?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Kineo Top Tips

Although my blogging volume may be down, my writing volume certainly is not. Amidst client projects and presentations I think I'm actually writing more than ever.

Some of my efforts lately have been focused on the Kineo website, particularly around our Top Tip series:



Browse our complete Top Tips library and let me know if there's something you'd like to see more of!