Kineo tips
Welcome to the Kineo tips. At Kineo we're all about sharing advice and insights for a fresh approach to e-learning. We're delighted to partner with the E-learning Centre to bring you some (well, 30 or so with more to come) ideas to keep your e-learning sharp, whether you're designing, managing or buying it.
Tip 30: Show Don
Mar182010Tip 30: Show Don't Tell - Three Ways to Help Your SME See the Forest and the Trees Helping Subject Matters Experts (SMEs) get from a flat document to an Read more...
Tip 29: Five Ways to Help Your Learners Space Out
Mar172010Tip 29: Five Ways to Help Your Learners Space Out We were all guilty of pre-exam cramming sessions. On more occasions than we’d like to admit, we stayed up Read more...
Tip 28: Staying on the cutting edge
Mar162010Tip 28: Staying on the cutting edge It’s possible that you know what you’re doing. You have a firm grasp of the tools you use to build eLearning and you Read more...
Tip 27: Tear down the visual wallpaper
Mar152010
Tip 27: Tear down the visual wallpaper It is time to tear down the e-learning wallpaper and take heed of some top tips on using graphics for instructional Read more...
Tip 4 Make more mistakes
Mar122010Tip 4 Make more mistakes. Samuel Beckett described his approach to life as ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.’ Too Read more...
Tip 5: Working mistakes into your design
Mar122010Tip 5: Working mistakes into your design If you can hone in on the mistakes, misperceptions and performance gaps that’s causing 80% of the issues for your Read more...
Tip 6: Feedback to basics
Mar122010Tip 6: Feedback to basics We’ve looked in previous insights at mistakes and the key role they play in e-learning design. But a mistake’s not worth making if Read more...
Tip 7: Making the Business Case for e-learning
Mar122010Making the Business Case for e-learning The new economic realities mean that every manager up and down your organisation is going to have to fight to spend Read more...
Tip 8: E-learning: why it delivers better performance.
Mar122010Tip 8: E-learning: why it delivers better performance. We looked at some of the arguments for e-learning from a cost viewpoint. You may find your Read more...
Tip 9 A little less conversation a little more action
Mar122010Tip 9 A little less conversation a little more action “If had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” T.S. Eliot (probably) In an earlier Read more...
Tip 10 The scope’s the thing
Mar122010Tip 10 The scope’s the thing Why do e-learning projects run into trouble? Many reasons, and we’ll see how many we can cover in future insights, to help you Read more...
Tip 11: Ok, here’s the scenario
Mar122010Tip 11: OK, here’s the scenario … A lot of effective e-learning relies on a goal-based scenario approach. What are they and how do they work? Let’s not fret Read more...
Tip 12: Have I got your attention?
Mar122010Tip 12: Have I got your attention? Ever been bored by e-learning? Ever seen an opening screen riddled with bullet after bullet of objectives, with a Read more...
Tip 13: Cost-cutting
Mar122010Tip 13: Happy new cost-cutting If your boss hasn’t asked you how you’re cutting costs in e-learning yet, it must be because your name is towards the end Read more...
Tip 14: Love your SME
Mar122010Tip 14 Love your SME The Subject Matter Expert and the designer: . Five steps to a happier relationship... We've worked with many SMEs down through the Read more...
Tip 15: Product knowledge e-learning, done rapidly
Mar122010Tip 15: Product knowledge e-learning, done rapidly If you’re in retail, you know that despite all the cuts you need to make, you can’t cut back on Read more...
Tip 16: Ten tips for online tutoring
Mar122010Tip 16: Ten tips for online tutoring As e-learning evolves, one welcome trend is the movement away from large formal courses and towards more informal Read more...
Tip 17: Five questions to ask about authoring tools
Mar122010Tip 17: Five questions to ask about authoring tools One of the mantras of these crunching times is (or at least should be): if it’s worth doing, you Read more...
Tip 18 Five Pointers for podcasting in e learning
Mar122010Tip 18: Five pointers for podcasts in e-learning They’re quick, easy to produce and can add great value to your e-learning. Maybe podcasts are the Read more...
19: Five steps to great podcast interviews
Mar122010
Last time we looked at getting yourself set up for success with podcasting. This week we get down to the basics of making the podcast interview itself sound Read more...
Tip 20: Six steps for simple tutorials
Mar122010Tip 20: Six steps for simple tutorials If you’re going to develop e-learning rapidly, you need to start with a model in mind. A model will help you be Read more...
Tip 21: Listen carefully
Mar122010Tip 21: Listen carefully Audio. It’s cheap to do and quick to make. But so is a pot noodle – and we all know, you shouldn’t add those to your e-learning. Read more...
Tip 22 Shoot this! 5 tips for video
Mar122010Shoot this: 5 tips for video After many years in the wilderness of e-learning, with fear for its safety, video’s back, baby. It’s about as cheap and Read more...
Tip 23: Twitter, the Karmic Learning Tool
Mar122010Twitter, the Karmic Learning Tool When Oprah joined Twitter, everyone started claiming that Twitter was all over. But those of us in the know, know that Read more...
Tip 24:Yamming it up with Yammer
Mar122010Tip 24:Yamming it up with Yammer Twitter + your company – rest of world = Yammer? Previously we wrote about Twitter. Hard to miss Twitter these days, Read more...
Tip 25: Top Ten Webinar Tips
Mar122010Here are our top ten tips for running successful webinars. 1.Don't scrimp on the technology.If the software you useisn't up to it you might as well throw in Read more...
Tip 26: Our Objection to Learning Objectives
Mar122010Tip 26: Our Objection to Learning Objectives After reading this post, you will be able to: Explain two of the reasons why we don't like traditional learning Read more...
Tip 3 Narrative and e-learning
Sep012008Tip 3 Narrative and e-learning We’ve talked about stories in e-learning and why they’re a great way to make your e-learning memorable, authentic and engaging. Read more...
Tip 2: Getting stories into e-learning
Aug142008Tip 2: Getting stories into e-learning Last time we wrote about the benefits of stories in learning. They’re easy to remember, they’re competing, they’re Read more...
Tip 1 Learning Starts with a Story
Aug012008Insight 1: learning starts with a story Someone once said all learning starts with a story. They probably went on to tell a story about how they Read more...
