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Steal From Marketing to Improve Your Training

Published 5 months ago • 2 min read

The eLearning Coach Newsletter

For Curious Learning Professionals

Hi Reader,

Why do learning design look to other fields for inspiration? Perhaps because learning design is a mix of so many fields, we're able to easily incorporate strategies from surprising places. In this issue, you'll find ideas from marketing, product design, and graphic design.

Would you like to learn how to write short video scripts? Check out my 90-minute ID Focus Session: How to Write Short Video Scripts. It's happening this Saturday March 29th. If you can't make it, you can watch the recording and download the resources. Find out more here: How to Write Short Video Scripts Workshop. It's a way to build one skill at a time.

​Steal from Marketing to Improve Your Training​

Everyone wants their training to be most effective and more engaging. So, what can we learn from marketing? Mike and Bianca explain.

​Steal from Product Design: Seven Principles for Innovating​

Seriously, I really mean "borrowing." Why product design? This field is continuously searching for disruption and innovation. See which strategies may help YOU innovate.

​Designing Text-Based Information: Typography for eLearning​

Do you know how to make the text in your courses legible, readable and aesthetically pleasing? Best to check these principles because they improve the learning experience.

On April 9th and 10th (2 hours a day), iSpring is giving an event called From Slides to Engaging Courses. iSpring works as a PowerPoint plugin and is one of the easiest authoring tools to use. You can get a 30-day free trial. Read more about it here: https://ispri.ng/nMv7W​
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Now on to the goodies below.

GOOD FINDS

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FEED YOUR MIND

MULTIMEDIA

COOL TOOLS

  • ​Elicit: An AI research tool that finds papers and writes a report
  • ​Liner: An AI research tool that gets good reviews.
  • ​Loom: In case you didn't yet know about this app for recording video messages. 25 videos on the free plan.
  • ​Likewise: TV, movies, book, podcast recommendations.

MY COMMUNITY AND COURSES

​HOW TO WRITE SHORT VIDEO SCRIPTS​
Hands-on 90-minute workshop this Saturday, March 29th at 11:00AM EDT. Find out more.
​MASTERING INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN​
This is a learning community of smart and friendly members that want to move forward and expand their instructional design skills. We have 15+ self-paced courses, monthly speakers who are industry leaders, member calls, and a discussion forum. All courses are open to all members.
​BREAKING INTO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN​
My free 12-lesson email course about transitioning to a career in instructional design. The course explains the variety of instructional design careers, tasks of the profession, places to network, salary ranges and more. You'll get two email lessons a week for six weeks. Or receive all lessons at once by purchasing the eBook.
Would a colleague like this newsletter? They can sign up here: The eLearning Coach Newsletter. See you on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and at Instructional Design Newbies on Facebook!

Stay inspired!

Connie Malamed

PO Box 1623, Frederick, MD 21702
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