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What Is The True Cost of Training?

Jean Ventose was doing some shopping at his local Walmart store in Calgary and had picked up a set of headphones from the electronic department. As he continued shopping he noticed that a store employee was following him and not at a discrete distance like you might expect, but rather in a manner that could be construed as a way to harass him...

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Learning to Fly

Have you ever gotten to that point in the storyboard where you suddenly realize that you don’t know how to achieve the desired effect or interaction? I know I have. Especially early in my career. over ten years ago I worked alongside a more seasoned eLearning designer/developer who saw me struggling with a difficult project...

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Adobe Learning Summit

The Adobe Learning Summit at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada is fast approaching and I’m really looking forward to it. The Adobe Learning Summit is held at the MGM Grand Conference Center, part of the MGM Grand Hotel...

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Choosing the Right Resolution for your eLearning

In this video I talk about the consideration you should make when choosing a screen resolution. This is not an entirely new concept. I’ve talked about this before when discussing making responsive design part of your needs analysis...

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Giving is Living

I had someone recently reach out to me from the internet and ask for assistance. This was the type of question that I knew would take more than a few minutes of my time to explain how to do it...

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Responsive Learning

When designing for mobile I find you need to rethink learning. I always try to imagine what my learner needs from each project. For example, if an employee wanted to access my lesson while commuting on the train, what needs to be on their screen? Do I need just the basics or should I try to cram my desktop design onto their tiny screen?

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Turn On the Pro Workspace

In this video, I show you how you can setup Adobe Captivate with a custom workspace that I call the Pro Workspace.

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Fonts and Adobe Captivate

There are essentially three possible outcomes when designing and publishing Adobe Captivate projects. There are Flash based standard projects, HTML5 based standard projects and responsive design based projects. Standard projects in Adobe Captivate have a persistent aspect ratio regardless of whether they are published in Flash or HTML5. 

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Making eLearning Engaging

I sometimes get asked how I make an online course engaging to my audience and what do I do to keep learners motivated to complete the training. I generally try to work the following aspects into all my online learning that I design...

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