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Achieving innovation in e-learning – Let’s get creative

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Catherine Blanchard in Content

What does innovation in e-learning really mean anymore? Is it merely a buzzword, just like all restaurant cuisine is ‘authentic and made from fresh produce’ all e-learning is ‘engaging, interactive and innovative’?

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Paxman’s sexy prime numbers – how they can help you to make the key messages in your e-learning memorable

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Catherine Blanchard in Uncategorized

Sky is great, isn’t it? Recording your favourite programmes, watching them whenever you want… except it gets a bit complicated when you’ve got more than one University Challenge fan in the house (yes, really) and two fiercely competitive housemates.

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Creating an online learning personality

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Catherine Blanchard in Content, Instructional design

It’s the office Christmas party and everyone’s taking their seats at the table. Who would you rather sit next to, the rather dull colleague in the lovely dress or the one with the great stories who you really get on with? An e-learning course’s ‘look’ is important… but its ‘personality’ is paramount.

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How to QA e-learning effectively

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Catherine Blanchard in Content, Instructional design

Mantras such as ‘check, check and check again’ are often bandied around in the workplace, but what can we do to make sure our QA of everything we roll out is 100 per cent foolproof?

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Creating an effective online induction programme

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Catherine Blanchard in Content

First impressions count, so it’s important that an induction programme is effective. We work with our clients to find out how their current induction programme can be improved. Businesses often have trouble making sure a comprehensive induction to the company is completed in a new starter’s first few days, and once a new starter is no longer new it can be difficult to deliver an effective induction – they may have already made up their mind about the company!

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Top five tips for creating effective interactions

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Catherine Blanchard in Uncategorized

Interactions pose a dilemma to all instructional designers. While they can be fun, visually exciting and effective, they can also require a lot of development and be difficult to create.

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Interactions decoded

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Catherine Blanchard in Uncategorized

A few weeks ago, some of us at Saffron went to the Victoria and Albert museum to see Decode: Digital Design Sensations, a digital design exhibition. We had a brilliant afternoon and saw some inspiring pieces created on the themes of decode, network and interactivity.

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It’s personal

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Catherine Blanchard in Instructional design

The challenge facing instructional designers is always to think of new ways to make our learning courses interesting, engaging and effective. We look at how we can make the best course possible by focusing on the technologies, design, graphics, content and writing style, but what about thinking about a course’s personality?

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Does e-learning lack eyes and ears?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Catherine Blanchard in Content, Instructional design

I was interested to see that Skype has recently announced a partnership with LG and Panasonic, which means we will soon be able to buy a TV which we can use to Skype and browse the internet (find out more here). Promoting this new technology Skype’s business development manager, Jin Kim claimed that, “TVs have lacked two things to date… eyes and ears” because “they haven’t had cameras and they haven’t had microphones.” This led me to wonder… does e-learning also lack eyes and ears?

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Saffron Interactive has been producing bespoke elearning experiences, blended programmes and learning platforms since 2000.

The Spicy Learning Blog is where our instructional designers, product managers and techies share their invaluable expertise with the wider learning & development community. Expect "must-know" tips on instructional design and rapid development, best practice for elearning delivery, and succesful blended learning recipes. Contact our team now.

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