TrainingFolks Ranks No. 3 on the 2013 PROFIT 500 in the Education & Certification Industry
TrainingFolks Ranks No. 222 on the 2013 PROFIT 500 in Canada
- PROFIT Magazine unveils 25th annual list o
f Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies -
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Tips From Your Instructional Design Company
Instructional Designer: eLearning Chunking Strategy Tips
As instructional designers, we’re always looking for new concepts that will lead to successful
learning experiences. A main psychological phenomenon heavily practiced in the world of instructional design is information chunking. Chunking content is critical because of the way the human brain works.
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TrainingFolks Reaches Out
Last weekend, the team here at TrainingFolks banded together to help extend the lives of Canadians by participating in Becels RIDE for Heart.
The funds raised will be used to support life-giving research, social change programs and health information initiatives, moving the Heart & Stroke foundation closer towards its ultimate goal of eradicating heart disease and stroke.
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Tips from your Instructional Design Services Provider
Instructional Design Services: Visualize Through Storyboarding
Previously, in our Course Development Tips – How to Build a Good Design Plan post, we wrote about the importance of having a good design plan in place before jumping into development to ensure the success of a corporate training program. For an eLearning course, instructional design services should also include creating a visual storyboard as part of that plan. A great storyboard will save time, money and avoid clients being surprised or disappointed by the end results. A visual storyboard is, in essence, a bridge between what is envisioned and what will be.
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Working in Partnership with Your SMEs
How do instructional design companies build and leverage valuable relationships with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) when designing a new learning program?
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Course Development Tips –How to Build a Good Design Plan
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs
It seems like a logical progression - design your corporate training program, then develop it. But often, a good upfront corporate design plan – if it exists at all - is pushed aside as we rush to develop the course first. This results in the content being written and forced to fit into the course development schedule as opposed to the course development emerging from a good design plan.
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Top 5 Custom eLearning Development Programs / Authoring Tools
Custom eLearning developments, along with their counterpart software, have undergone rapid growth in recent years. With so many software options today, shouldn’t your custom eLearning development life be easier too? As eLearning continues to gain popularity, it seems impossible to remain updated on the many different authoring tools available today. As eLearning developers are in search of the latest authoring tool to help engage their learners, they become inundated with product details. With so much information available, how do you begin sorting through it all? Can you come to a decision and be sure of it without losing a full-day of work?
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