One of the most powerful tools we have in eLearning is the ability to interview subject matter experts. So what’s the strategy for conducting great interviews? I try to minimize the amount of time I need from the content expert by structuring the interview using this 6-step process. Establish a purpose for the interview with…
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Manage SME Relationships
Tips for Managing SME Relationships Working with subject matter experts (SMEs) is a critical part of the training design process, but it isn’t always smooth sailing. As instructional designers, we often face situations where our interactions with SMEs have hindered the progress of the project. It takes specific strategies to get things back on track…
Resources and Guides
Free eBook Download Is your content boring? No matter how dull your topic is, by recognizing what makes a course boring you can improve engagement and help learners succeed. Free eBook Download Scenario-based eLearning Scenario-based training has many benefits: it increases engagement, promotes a greater depth of understanding, and increases knowledge retention. Free eBook Download…
How to Remove Unconscious Bias for Improved eLearning
It’s been a privilege for us at ThinkingKap to have worked on as many Diversity & Inclusion courses as we have over the years. I care deeply about accountability and keeping peoples’ biases in check. I pride myself on being an extremely objective person (at times too much so) and would love to think that…
Assemble The Perfect eLearning Team
For anyone who has not worked on a significant sized eLearning project, all the moving pieces can make it feel like a Rube Goldberg machine. Clients undertaking these projects for the first time end up surprised by how much goes into it, and it always takes longer than the uninitiated would assume. With this much going…
How to Make People Love Your eLearning
As an ID, you create courses that people need to take. The problem is, even though the knowledge is good for them, we know they don’t actually want to take the course.
Great Instructors Are Born, But They Can Also Be Made
Sometimes it seems that great presentation skills are a personality trait…some people have them and some don’t. Certain people have infectious personalities and dynamic speaking abilities made to stand up and conduct classroom training. And then there’s the rest of us. Fear not! While it isn’t realistic to think you can transform your instructors into…
10 Awesome Training Engagement Techniques from the Last Year
Wow! As we mentioned yesterday, it’s been a LONG time since we blogged, so it feels good to stretch our typing fingers and re-enter the interweb once again. We may have taken a hiatus from blogging, but everything else has been full steam ahead here at ThinkingKap. So, to jump start our return, we thought…
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Corporate Training Consulting
What You Can Expect We provide specialized expertise no matter your corporate education consulting needs. You see, we’re a training company that understands the same business constraints that you have developing training, because we face them every day. We understand project management, keeping up with the latest technology, and the need to watch the bottom…