Articulate Storyline Essential Training

If you’re interested in creating engaging and interactive elearning content, a good place to start is learning about one of the leading tools in the industry, Articulate Storyline 360. In this course, Daniel Brigham walks through the most important aspects of creating elearning in Storyline. He details the full process from idea to delivery, covering key features like slide creation, building in interactions, and deploying elearning. He also shows how to insert common assets like text, audio, images, characters, and video, along with tips on how to get the most out of the quizzing features in Storyline. Beyond software features, Daniel also centers this course around five best practices designed to help you create better overall learning experiences. 

Learning Articulate Rise 

Articulate Rise is an elearning authoring tool that allows for rapid creation of attractive, responsive, and interactive online courses—and it’s free to all Articulate 360 subscribers. All you need is an internet connection and web browser to get started. This course shows you how. David Rivers walks through every step in the creation of a Rise project, from adding the initial lessons and content to integrating quizzes, and then shows how to customize your course appearance with different themes. Plus, learn how to open your course to collaboration with others and export it for sharing—in a learning management system (LMS) or on the web.

Learning objectives

• Creating a new course

• Adding lessons and sections

• Inserting content with blocks

• Adding interactive flash cards, charts, and quizzes

• Customizing course appearance

• Sharing your Rise course

• Exporting a completed course

Instructional Design: Adult Learners 

Adult learners have specific needs that have to be considered during the instructional design process. In this course, one in a series on instructional design, Jeff Toister explores the best practices and techniques that will help designers work with, and train, adult learners. Explore the theory behind adult learning, discover techniques to increase active (vs. passive) learning, see how to identify and surmount barriers to learning, and get additional resources for developing training for adults.

Learning objectives

• Adult learning theory

• Understanding the four stages of learning

• Comparing active vs. passive learning

• Overcoming learning barriers

• Turning theory into practice

Instructional Design Essentials: Models of ID 

Instructional design (ID) models are frameworks that help you create quality training. In this course, instructional design expert Dr. Joe Pulichino explores some of the most salient models of ID, illuminating the connections between learning and ID. Joe dives into common models such as ADDIE and SAM, and provides examples of when each model might be most appropriate for producing engaging and effective instructional materials. Plus, he shares how key learning theories can guide your ID efforts, as well as how rapid prototyping can help you boost your efficiency as you design your training.