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Cinecraft Wins Silver and Bronze in the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards
Cinecraft is proud to share that we took home Silver and Bronze awards from the 2024 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards®. The 2024 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® recognizes best practices for initiatives in Learning and Development, Talent...
Tips for Faster Course Building in Articulate Storyline 360
Are you looking for ways to program courses in Storyline 360 more quickly? Maybe you have a tight deadline. Or maybe you’re new to Storyline and want to learn some best practices. No matter what your reason is, the tips outlined in this article will help you work more...
Top 5 Graphic Design Strategies For The Instructional Designer
Graphic Design Tips For Instructional Designers Instructional Designers are jacks of all trades. You have to know everything from how to write effective learning objectives and assessments to how to design and develop attractive and engaging learning experiences....
Tips For Conducting Quality Assurance Reviews
Execute QA Reviews Efficiently You've spent weeks writing and developing a course for an important stakeholder in your organization. You've added the final details. The finish line is in sight! Don't let all of that hard work go to waste. Ensure everyone on the...
5 Ways To Reduce Cognitive Load In eLearning When Working With An SME
Reducing Cognitive Load In eLearning Instructional Designers devote a significant amount of their professional development effort to researching, learning, and creating new instructional strategies to reduce cognitive load. Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), who commonly...
Conducting A Needs Analysis: The Case Of The Disappearing Learners
Engaging Learners By Conducting A Needs Analysis Meet Sadie, an Instructional Design Manager for a large cell phone retailer with 15,000 salespeople. In her annual review, she noticed that learners are not consuming as much training content as she would like. To...
Video Production For eLearning
How To Create A Video Like A True Professional Simply put, video production is when you begin to create the assets to bring your script to life. Depending on your creative brief/learning strategy, production may include raw video, photographs, voice-over narration,...
How Do I Increase My Learners’ Motivation With Gamification?
Have you struggled to motivate your learners and considered adding game mechanics? Before you jump into creating themes and designing leaderboards, there are simple best practices you need to know and follow.
Secrets Of Pre-Production
Pre-production is one of the most complicated stages of making a training video. It requires a variety of skills, patience, insight and perfect timing.
Designing A Creative Brief/Learning Strategy
Creating a training video is essential for all modern training programs. But, before this is feasible, you need to start at square one: creative brief/learning strategy.
Choosing The Right Modalities For Your Blended Learning Strategy
Are you trying to decide which modalities or delivery methods to use in your blended learning strategy? This article will help you choose the ones that work together seamlessly to meet your learning objectives and engage every learner.
Stop! Before You Convert ILT To eLearning Do These 6 Things
Creating quick and effective online training from your classroom content has lots of pitfalls. Classroom and eLearning are not “one and the same.” So follow these 6 steps for a smooth conversion process.