CHALLENGE: Out of Compliance Issue CHALLENGE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS/DEVELOPERS (practicing variables, triggers and conditions) Business problem: Little Bunny FooFoo’s in-forest behavior is hostile towards field mice. She’s definitely out of compliance by picking them up and bomping them on the...

Example of Using Parallel Effect (and markers) in Storyline What you need: Slider 1: picture in the background (city and sky) Slider 2: picture in the front (houses) Slider 3: dragging the “day” Slider 1 and Slider 2 are controlled...

“I’m not a coder. What’s a variable and who really pulled the trigger?” First, check out these two-minute clips to have an idea on variables: Why using a variable? Images, characters, shapes, videos, even triggers in Storyline, “live” on the...

Seriously, I’ve been reading articles after articles that start out like that: “Gamification is not about playing games.” Then they go on with game design, game elements, even examples of games in learning. And finally, they conclude that gamification is...

How do you feel about completing a task under time pressure? If there’s one single topic I get asked most about gamifying e-learning is this one: the timer. The story usually goes like this: THE DESIGN Based on an extensive “5 things you...

Working out loud on whimsicability… What I learned last year from David Anderson, Melissa Milloway and Jane Bozarth, is that you never know what people find interesting, useful or even funny. Unless you show your work. Well, it started almost a...

Last year, I started a Work Out Loud (actually Tweak Out Loud) project: a gamified Storyline elearning that addresses common myths about gamification/game-based learning. I’ve learned a lot since the first edition, so here comes Gamification of Thrones v2 It’s...

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to do two hands-on sessions at the ATD TechKnowledge conference in Las Vegas, NV. The point I was trying to drive home was to use Game Thinking while designing a course or assessment...

This post originally was posted in LinkedIn. Recently, we had a passionate conversation on Twitter about the future of Instructional Design (ID). Knowing (or not) where L&D is heading, is it a title that remains with us in the future? So many...

Controlling Variables from JavaScript I often have to use multiple True/False variables to keep track of things. Let’s say they are collectibles. If it’s true, you have it. If it’s false, you don’t. Now, many times I want to easily...