Inclusion and diversity are imperatives in today’s workplace. For those who create training or administer training programs, that means considering and meeting the needs of learners with disabilities. This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. A Guide for Creating and Buying Accessible Online Training
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The 5 W’s of Training Rollouts
Launch a Series of Trainings to Better Equip Your Team. Here’s How to Get Started. Organizing a training rollout is a complex task, but a valuable one. A training rollout is a series of trainings offered to a targeted group with the expectation of changing behavior. The topics, audience, and delivery will vary, but the intention is to provide information that will alter a person’s actions. There are several items
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Three Key Accessibility Lessons This was my third year at CSUN, the premier conference on assistive technology. If you’re interested in accessibility, it’s the place to be. I presented (or was part of presenting) three sessions. (You can see more at my conference resource page.) This year there wasn’t a single big theme that I took away (like I did when I was thinking about making elearning accessible in 2017 and using pattern libraries
READ MORE about Kevin Gumienny Commentary from CSUN2018: This Year in Learning– 109 Curated L&D Articles from 2018
Every month, Microassist’s Senior Learning Architect Kevin Gumienny curates 5-10 articles from various disciplines related to learning and discipline. This year’s roundup includes articles on accessible elearning, instructional, program and learning design, If 2018 flew by quickly for you and you missed some of Kevin’s articles, here’s your chance to catch up on some reading. Did you have a favorite L&D post from 2018 that you’d like to add?
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We recently did a retrospective of our 2018 projects, which got me thinking about the lessons that I’d like to carry into 2019 (and beyond). Three big takeaways from last year’s learning development projects are: Processes exist for a reason. We had one project where we implemented a new storyboard. (Not using a storyboard? You should. Using a storyboard leads to quicker development.) In the short term, it made a lot
READ MORE about 3 Big Takeaways from Last Year’s Learning Development ProjectsAccessible Elearning Insights Gleaned from Dutch Municipality Website Audits
What can training program managers learn from a study of Dutch government websites? Their website audits reveal five insights (at least) to consider when building accessible elearning. Accessible Elearning Insights Gleaned from Dutch Municipality Website Audits I just finished Eric Velleman’s 2018 dissertation, The Implementation of Web Accessibility Standards by Dutch Municipalities (discovered through Laura Carlson’s excellent weekly newsletter, Web Design Update). How does this relate to elearning, you might
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Are you a Learning Dispatch newsletter subscriber? A favorite newsletter feature is “This Month in Learning.” In it, Senior Learning Architect Kevin Gumienny links to 5-10 articles from various disciplines related to learning and development. Here are Kevin’s top learning and development articles from 2018. They’re each culled from the 80+ mentioned throughout the year. If you missed them, don’t experience the same regret in 2020! Subscribe to the Learning Dispatch newsletter today for learning updates
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Quick Tips to Improve Training Quality Creating elearning can be both time-consuming and intense. To help make it a little easier, here are three tips that can have an outsized effect. Link objectives to content. If you use an objective-driven process (and you should), include a text reference to each objective when you write the content related to the objective’s topic. How does this help? It ensures that the screen
READ MORE about 3 Tips for Raising the Quality of Your TrainingCreativity within Constraints: When Cost, Resource Scarcity, or Deadlines Make Effective Elearning Seem Out of Reach
Budget limits. Deadlines. Legacy tools. They don’t have to mean sacrificing creativity, engagement, or effectiveness. An interaction catalog can help you develop effective elearning under constraints. Developing Effective Custom Training While Respecting Resource Limitations Learning development is a paradox. Study after study tells us that training matters. It changes how people do things. It affects the bottom line. Once business problems are identified, training, while not the answer to every
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When Informal Communication Succeeds: A Tale from the Trenches An interaction catalog: one way to efficiently build great elearning How do you design successful elearning while operating within constraints like budget, time, and resources? As recently discussed on our Learning Dispatch blog, one way is to have a formal template interaction catalog, and consciously ensure that designers and developers operate only within those limits (it can be more creative than it sounds!).
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