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You can stand out while being your authentic self. Here are some ways to boost your visibility and avoid feeling icky. theelearningcoach.com/career/eleva...

Repost from LinkedIn. I've noticed that you can overcome the discomfort of posting about your work or your ideas by ensuring that what you have to say has value and will help others. Being willing to serve the greater community results in becoming more visible. It's a win-win.

Do you want to start on your journey of designing accessible and inclusive learning experiences? Sarah Mercier has some great advice for you > theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/88/

Interest in having AI code your dream app? This person did it > www.fastcompany.com/91309330/vib...

Remember chain emails? Caitlan Dewey asked the writers of her 7 favorite newsletters what their favorites were. Then she asked the writers of those newsletters the same question and on and on. See her newsletter. HT Dave Gray > linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/your-favor...

You would never distribute a survey without testing it, right? But your friend does. This short video will tell your friend how to test it so they get the data they're looking for > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltob...

I got very curious about curiosity recently and slogged through a lot of research articles to find relevant tidbits. I found lots of strategies to spark curiosity in adult learners > theelearningcoach.com/elearning_de...

Perhaps the most important aspect of productivity is working with greater intention. I love to research this stuff and found the 52/17 rule, the Zeigarnik Effect and 7 more > theelearningcoach.com/business/how...

One of the most important topics in visual design for learning design is organizing graphic space. We never want our designs to interfere with learning. How can you organize graphic space and the information within that space?

Do you have leadership experience to share with your peers? The Learning Leaders Conference 2025 has an open call for proposals until the end of the month > www.thelearningconference.com/attend/call-...

The Picture Superiority Effect states that pictures are remembered better than words. Under many conditions, pictures ARE more easily recognized and recalled than words (such as for concrete visuals).

I think that the theories of bottom-up and top-down processing do well in explaining how we process visual (and other sense-based) information.

Stella Lee captures the good, the bad, and the ugly of your AI assistant > paradoxlearning.com/e-learning/t...

In Higher Ed student evaluation of teaching, “…course design significantly predicts perceived quality more strongly than teachers, and that course design significantly predicts student engagement independent of teachers.” > link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Via @jameskruck

When we design slides or pages for eLearning and presentations, we typically don't have much time to make each one a masterpiece.

Not all instructional designers realize that sketching is another way to think. It's problem-solving in action. With a simple vocabulary of lines, shapes, arrows and stick figures, you can explore lots of design ideas. In the act of sketching, you may notice new possibilities.

David Kelly sums up the problem with prediction posts > www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-...

At least one shade of gray always has a place in my palette. 1. Gray is neutral 2. Gray supports the focal point 3. Gray has many variations 4. Gray calms down busy designs 5. Gray fits with most styles Five more reasons here > theelearningcoach.com/elearning_de...

Educational Technology is another path into the world of becoming a learning professional. Matt Campbell explains the field and how to break in > theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/86/

Educational Technology is a career path into instructional design and related roles. I recently spoke with Matt Campbell, ed tech consultant on The eLearning Coach Podcast > theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/86/

Have you been to this site for silly fun or fun silliness or inspirational game ideas? Neal.fun

50 book recommendations for instructional design and eLearning from @christytucker.bsky.social > christytuckerlearning.com/50-instructi...

To identify tools for the visual design of eLearning, slides, and print materials, I broke the process into stages and suggest tools for each phase. Any additions welcome > theelearningcoach.com/media/visual...

List of Free and Premium Stock Illustration sites > graphicmama.com/blog/stock-i...

This is exciting. Mike Taylor and Bianca Baumann have a book coming out in May: Think Like a Marketer: Train Like an L&D Pro. You can read about it here > www.amazon.com/Think-Like-M...

I've been testing AI image generators to see if any can make diagrams that represent a concept or idea. So far, napkin.ai is the only one I've found. Any other suggestions?

The NNGroup has what I think is a good article on writing Alt-text including the alt-text decision tree > www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...