Free license of Adobe Captivate – how?

Hello everyone, I have a little doubt. I collected 1000 points, I am currently at the Wizard level.  Then I went for this option. I filled in the requested information and nothing happened after that. Can anyone tell me that I did everything right? Has anyone gone through the procedure before and can describe it to me? Thanks!

Frequent mistakes made by instructional designers

In the following lines, you will read some mistakes that I made at the beginning of my career. They use games without a legitimate goal Using fun activities on an online course will boost participant activity, that’s true. However, if there are only games on the course that do not have an objective and measurable goal (acquisition and provision of knowledge by the participants), they are there only to decorate the course, then they have no didactic basis. Using technology […]

Adobe Captivate resources

Greetings to everyone! In the coming days, I plan to start learning about Adobe Captivate, so I wanted to ask you to recommend me some free courses on this topic. I have already found some useful learning resources myself, but I would like to have more resources. Thank you !

List of free online courses for instructional designers

Greetings to the whole community and happy New Year to all! With the New Year, new trends in education are coming, and for all instructional designers, continuous professional training is necessary. I googled a bit and found free courses that can be helpful in our careers. See the list below. Coursera Teaching Strategies  Digital Storytelling Gamification E-learning Alison Storytelling in education Open Learning Design effective learning  EdX Leading educational innovation and improvement Go beyond gamification Developing course content  Preparing for […]

List of my favorite free web tools and programs (for instructional designers)

Below you will see which tools and programs I would not be able to function without. However this is just a short list compared to the one I use, depending on the requirements of the project I am working on. You may have heard of some or used them, and if you haven’t, I hope it will be helpful. Game tools: EdukaPlay Quizlet Genially LearningApps Screen recording and video making: Active Presenter Screnomatic Ardour Graphics and images: Adobe Spark Canva […]

Content criteria

Hello dear e-learning community, I wonder if there are any topics to avoid when writing blog posts here? Do you know of any criteria that could cause your article to be rejected? Thank you all!

Objectives and outcomes for online course

Based on the content, we will easily create objectives and outcomes. Watch this short video on creating objectives and outcomes below. If you need help formulating goals and outcomes, you can try online generators. Outcome generator Objective generator

Features of a good online course

In this text, I will write about the basic conditions that every online course should meet. Although there are various versions of knowledge transfer via the Internet, online courses are only one type of online learning. When creating them, every instructional designer should keep in mind the following items, which will be described below. Of course, these are just the key points. Perhaps with the development of technology and new theories of learning, these key points will go down in […]

Assessment methods

What methods or tricks do you use to check and secure the knowledge of the participants in the online course? Do you only use automated assessment methods ( clasic tests)? Have you ever worked with an SME that personally evaluated participants?

Embed option

Hello everyone, I created an example project and now I want to embed it and show it to the community. However, I do not find that option. Even when I open the advanced text editor and copy the embed code, the project is not visible in the article. Tool I used is H5P. Thank you all. 🙂

7 websites with free video-materials

It is much easier to find images that are not subject to copyright that we can use in teaching, this is not the case with short videos. Compared to free images, which we use more in teaching, free videos are used less. Also, there are fewer sites where you can find those that are free and available for commercial purposes. Lately, teachers (but also students) are increasingly turning to learning through video material. In addition to learning through video materials, […]

Time management for instructional designers

Why is time management an important skill for instructional designer? Time management and personal organization are soft skills, which are unfairly neglected at the expense of hard skills. It is because soft skills will not provide you with a new job, while hard ones will certainly. However, if you completely neglect the development of soft skills, you may not be able to understand the client, the superior, you may not be able to organize yourself properly, you may be late, […]