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I am a Learning & Development thought leader with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering unique and impactful learning experiences for adults. I have extensive knowledge and experience in Instructional Design, E-Learning, and Learning Technology.
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Recent Blog Posts
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I Have to Write Smaller
My new boss got on to me trying to “boil the ocean” on a project where we really just needed a very simple script for converting question formats. But to me, the simple script would have been so simple that I personally wouldn’t have considered it very useful. So, as I often do, I started to expand the requirements and scope into something that would fix a lot of the…
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A Quick GenAI Helper for Middle School Robotics
My kiddos participate in a robotics program called VEX IQ, which includes a competition. This season’s game is called Rapid Relay, and it’s quite a bit more complex than games from previous years. This past weekend was our first competition of the season, and that complexity was on full display. This is a program run by volunteers, teachers, and parents, and these are middle school kids. The rules for this…
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Comparison of AI Voice Generators
November 15 2024: Updated with Play.ai (click to jump to update) Introduction Having voice-over in e-learning or multimedia training content is always a value add, and I think most of us know that intuitively. Adult learning theory tells us that adults want choice in how they consume training information, and we know that some people learn better audibly than visually. Additionally, including voice-over supports accessibility and is arguably required from…
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Automatically Personalize E-Learning with User Agent
Your web browser knows a lot about you, and that information is available to any website you visit. And since our e-learning projects are just webpages, it’s available to us too! Don’t worry, I’m not talking about the creepy stuff like when you get a Facebook ad for that niche thing you were just talking to a friend about. Consider this scenario: You’re making a training module on a system…
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ChatGPT’s New Canvas Feature is Awesome!
Update 2024.12.11: This feature is now out of beta and available for everyone! https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ ChatGPT just launched a new feature in beta they’re calling Canvas, and this is a killer feature that I’m immediately in love with. This is a great implementation of “AI as an assistant” – Not a tool for “Write me a whole thing from scratch”, but instead you write it yourself and then have the AI…
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Building This Site Part 1.5: You ARE a Web Designer!
In the last post I established a handful of things to consider in setting up a “blogfoliosume” (I should copyright that…) and promised a few more articles digging into the details. But before we go there it occurs to me that I should outline a few key parts of web design first, and hopefully dispel any trepidation you might feel on the more complex paths I’ll explore. My primary audience…