Digital and microlearning

Posted by Tracey Gray on May 17, 2018 at 6:51am in Learning Tools & Technologies

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations of training to help with the design and creation of digital and microlearning.

My company would like to start including videos and animations and more interactive elearning, so anything that covers these topics would be fab.

Thanks

Tracey

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Mike Collins July 9, 2018 at 8:55pm

Came across this video on microlearning the other day and thought I'd share

https://vimeo.com/276055245
Toby Newman June 28, 2018 at 11:21am

Hi Tracey,

Depending on your circumstances, I would highly recommend looking at creating your own videos for training - this is something we did and as well as creating our own training videos, we encouraged staff to create their own micro-videos, with our coaching. This improved engagment and training retention and improved our skills. You would need to invest in a Video LMS but I personally feel the comaony gets much more out of it than buying in 'professional' video trainings.

Hope this helps.
bronnie linley June 15, 2018 at 1:58pm

Hi Tracey

I would recommend you speak to an ex-colleague of mine who I would personally recommend for elearning design. Here is his LinkedIn profile

Cog-native are experts in designing and developing digital learning solutions.

Specialising in:

Design - Instructional design of blended learning; scripting and storyboarding a clear blueprint for the learning journey.

eLearning - Developing e-learning courses that challenge, engage and equip learners with the toolkits they need to perform effectively.

Video - Design and production of videos and animations to breathe life into the learning journey and tell the story in an engaging way.

To discover more please visit: http://www.cog-native.com

Bronnie
Mohammed Naveed May 21, 2018 at 9:17am

I'm sort of on this journey myself, working for a small in house L & D team of a manufacturer. We started using adobe articulate (ok but not the best) and but we having learningpool's adapt builder soon which is a lot better. I think there's two sides to this, your experience with using a authoring tool, and your experience with digital creation in general. I had to do it the hard, although the most rewarding way which was simply to get stuck in with authoring tool 1st by referring to docs, and then trying to re-discover my artisitic side. This is funny, this started by painting with my 7 year old!

In digital creation we started with free software: for logos and diagrams we used inkscape, for desktop publishing it was scribus. Eventually we got told off by IT for installing these (!) so we purchased Adobe creative cloud suite. Fantastic software, and really useful tutorials available from youtube. Search for "Dansky". We use illustrator to create images and logos, animate CC for simple animations, indesign for interactive infographics, Premier for video editing.

These are quite porwerful and can seem complicated so for something different google "videoscribe" for an interactive whiteboard/animation creator.
Mohammed Naveed May 18, 2018 at 3:05pm

Will you be doing the creating yourself or is this training for others to become good at content authoring?
- Tracey Gray > Mohammed Naveed May 18, 2018 at 6:54pm
  
  Hi Mohammed,
  
  For myself to create the content.
  
  Thanks
  
  Tracey
Adam Goodsearles May 18, 2018 at 2:40pm

Julie Dirksen's book - design for how people learn is really good

It covers digital learning in certain sections relevant to the kind of problems you might want to use them for.

I found it really useful

Adam
- Tracey Gray > Adam Goodsearles May 18, 2018 at 6:55pm
  
  Thanks Adam, I'll check it out