Build a Successful Wiki for Learning Initiatives
For top corporate training programs wikis were first developed over 15 years ago. Research has shown that organizational, training companies or corporate wikis are sustainable and can be beneficial to organizations particularly in improving work processes, collaboration and knowledge management.
Within the corporate training environment, wikis are proving to be valuable tools for:
- Increasing learner engagement
- Virtual Insturctor Led vILT support
- Project collaboration, information sharing and managing content
- Design collaboration
- Organizing a community around a written project
- Distributed intelligence gathering
- A knowledge base or collaborative extranet
- Fostering information flow within an organization
- Helping distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively
- Eliminating the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content
The main features of training companies use Wikis are:
- A simple) way to build and manage content
- Support hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly
- Accessibility from everywhere without any software installation (just a browser)
- Easy to track and constantly up-to-date
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Topics:
corporate training,
instructional designers,
virtual instructor lead,
Wiki
Are Instructional Designers Still Relevant?
The growth and quick adoption rates of eLearning authoring tools like Articulate, Captivate and Lectora have raised questions in many organizations as to the relevancy and value of instructional design services.
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Topics:
corporate training program,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
corporate training programs,
Articulate,
Lectora,
eLearning authoring tools,
instructional design service,
instructional design services,
eLearning authoring tool,
Captivate
Maximize Effectiveness when Interviewing Training Consultants
Interviewing a training consultant may be rather intimidating when trying to determine if the candidate has the right skill set you are looking for. Knowing whether or not they are the right fit for your group is sometimes hard to assess in one conversation, especially if you are interviewing from a virtual location.
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Topics:
training consultant,
training consultants,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
management training consultant
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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Topics:
training consultant,
training consultants,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
custom eLearning solution,
custom eLearning solutions,
facilitator,
facilitators
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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Topics:
Instructional design,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
eLearning,
instructional designer service
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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Topics:
training consultant,
training consultants,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
custom learning solution,
custom learning solutions,
contingent workforce service,
contingent workforce services
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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Topics:
Instructional design,
corporate training,
corporate training program,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
eLearning,
instructional designer service,
instructional designer services
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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Topics:
Instructional design,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
instructional design companies,
instructional design company
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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Topics:
Instructional design,
corporate training,
corporate training program,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
corporate training consultants,
corporate training programs,
course development,
course design,
how to hire instructional designer
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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Topics:
eLearning program,
instructional designers,
instructional designer,
custom eLearning development,
custom eLearning,
Articulate Studio,
Articulate,
Adobe Captivate,
Adobe,
Trivantis Lectora,
Trivantis,
Lectora,
Adobe Flash,
eLearning authoring tools,
elearning provider,
e learning provider,
how to hire e learning provider
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