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If you are new to the digital learning industry or if you want to advance your current learning & education role and become an eLearning instructional designer, this program is for you.

  • ARCS Model of Motivational Design

    This is a motivational design process that includes a synthesis of motivational concepts and theories clustered into four categories: Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and satisfaction. This resource will help you determine appropriate motivational activities for each of the four categories.

  • Bloom's taxonomy - Affective Domain

    The affective domain includes how we deal with things emotionally. This resource focuses on verbs that describe feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The five major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

  • Bloom's taxonomy - Psychomotor Domain

    The psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. This resource focuses on verbs that describe speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in execution. The seven major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

  • Bloom’s Taxonomy - Cognitive Domain

    The cognitive domain includes knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This resource focuses on the recall or recognition of specific facts, and procedural patterns The six major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

  • Conducting Needs Analysis Workbook

    This workbook provides six steps you need to follow to conduct an effective needs analysis and the questions that would help you conduct a needs analysis.

  • Course content mindmap for SMEs

    This mindmap will help you organize the course content you obtain from your SMEs.

  • Creating a Lesson Plan Using Gagne's Nine Events

    This template will help you create a detailed plan for designing your learning solution based on Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction.

  • Design Document

    This template will help you document course structure, navigation, and design as well as the audio and visual elements to be used. It is proof that key stakeholders agree with the vision of the eLearning course.

  • eLearning Requirement Checklist for 508 Compliance

    This checklist should be used to verify whether your eLearning course meets the accessibility requirements.

  • eLearning Standards and Style Guide - Template

    This template provides guidance on the components to include to ensure course consistency. This template includes style choices such as fonts, headings, and even image placements for the screen.

  • Error Log Template

    This template helps you monitor any issues that arise in your project and ensure that they are resolved by their target date.

  • Gagne Methods

    This resource helps you identify application methods for each instructional event.

  • Gagne's Theory of Instruction

    This resource explains Gagne's Theory of Instruction.

  • History of Instructional Design

    This document provides an overview of where the instructional design originated and how it evolved.

  • Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

    This chart outlines the nine types of intelligence and learners' preferences in each category.

  • Implementation Phase

    This checklist is a tool that will ensure you will not miss anything during your implementation phase.

  • Instructional Design and ELearning Glossary

    This glossary lists major instructional design terms and their definitions.

  • Is eLearning the Right Option

    This checklist helps you determine if eLearning is the appropriate solution for the course you need to create.

  • Mind Map for Small and Mid-size Enterprise

    This template should be used to organize course information including lesson content, modules, and organisation.

  • Planning Your Learning Game

    This template will help you plan and organize your learning game.

  • Project Kickoff Meeting with SMEs

    The template will help you answer the question you need to ask your SMEs to successfully kick off your project.

  • Quality Assurance Checklist

    This resource focuses on questions every instructional designer should ask to ensure the quality of their eLearning course.

  • Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

    This resource focuses on the revised Bloom's taxonomy and how to use each level effectively.

  • Sections of the Design Document

    This chart covers the sections instructional designers need to include in the Design Document and the information each section should cover.

  • Storyboarding Template No. 1

    This template helps you organize your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

  • Storyboarding Template No. 2

    This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

  • Storyboarding Template No. 3

    This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

  • Storyboarding Template No. 4

    This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

  • What Type of Job Aid Should You Choose.

    This template helps you determine the appropriate job aid based on the type of task you want your learners to perform.

  • Which eLearning Theory to Choose

    This resource provides an overview and main focus of each learning theory.

Join our Ignite Instructional Design & eLearning Program

If you are new to the digital learning industry or if you want to advance your current learning & education role and become an eLearning instructional designer, this program is for you.

Must Have Tools

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Free Music for e-Learning Courses

  • Archive's audio and MP3 library

    Archive's audio and MP3 library is audio and mp3 library, which contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

  • Free Music Archive

    Free Music Archive is an archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a

    curatorial approach.

  • Audio Farm

    Audiofarm is the social network for audio. Audiofarm is the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music and audio from around the world.

  • AudionautiX

    AudionautiX is a free online music collection that you can use for non-commercial and commercial purposes as long as you provide credit "Music from - audionautix.com" or give a link to the audionatiX website.

  • BrainyBetty

    BrainyBetty is a website full of free sound clips and music for presentations.

  • ccMixter

    ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

  • DanoSongs

    DanoSongs is a site where you can find original music as free MP3 downloads. You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It is also legal to use the music royalty-free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow, or website.

  • Jamendo

    Jamendo is the #1 platform for free music. The site allows users to download and listen to albums, and also to

    discover and share new artists. It is completely free and legal.

  • Kompoz

    Kompoz is an online community that allows collaboration between artists from all over the world. Artists post their clips on the website where anyone can download and use them for their own productions.

  • Musopen

    Musopen is a non-profit organization focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. Musopen provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

  • PacDV

    PacDV is free music that you can use in your video, audio, or multimedia productions. Clips are available as mp3s and are organized by mood and

    emotion.

  • Partners in Rhyme

    Partners in Rhyme is a huge catalog of royalty-free music libraries for you to download and start using right away in your commercial projects.

  • Purple Planet

    Purple Planet is a free collection of royalty-free music available for download. Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects in exchange for a link to the Purple Planet website.

  • Padlet

Project Management Tool

  • OpenWorkbench

    OpenWorkbench

    OpenWorkbench is a desktop application for project management and scheduling in which you can define a work breakdown structure, set dependencies and resource constraints, assign resources to tasks, auto-schedule, and then monitor progress.

  • Evernote

    Evernote

    Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for note-taking and archiving.

  • Asana

    Asana

    Asana is a free shared task list for your team. The place to plan, organize, and stay in sync.

  • Freedcamp

    Freedcamp

    Freedcamp is a free project management software designed to manage multiple project tasks. Project managers gain full control of their project, where they can track workers’ time spent on a project, set deadlines, create a to-do list, and share important documents and information. It features a state-of-the-art communications system, from where all users can see which tasks have been assigned to them without the need to be signed into the system.

  • Collabtive

    Collabtive

    Collabtive is a web-based project management software intended for small to medium-sized businesses and freelancers.

  • ClockingIT

    ClockingIT

    ClockingIT is a free hosted application, keeping track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them.

  • Redmine

    Redmine

    Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Assessment and Testmakers

  • FlipSnack

    Hot Potatoes

    Hot Potatoes is a suite that includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.

  • ClassMarker

    ClassMarker

    ClassMarker is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly.

  • Easy TestMaker

    Easy TestMaker is an online test generator that makes it easy for you to perfectly format multiple question types, print alternate versions, and publish to the web for online tests! The tool lets you create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true/false questions, add instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

  • Quandary

    Quandary

    Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes or interactive case- studies where the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.

  • QuizSlides

    QuizSlides

    QuizSlides is a website that lets you create stylish, interactive online tests.

 

Meet the Trainers

Marina Arshavskiy and Vanessa Trower have been in the field of instructional design and eLearning for over a decade and have worked with large global organisations and government agencies.

As we were working with our clients, we realised that many professionals are tasked with creating online courses but they don't always have the knowledge and skills needed to develop effective instructionally-sound digital courses.

Both of us were frequently approached by others asking for coaching and assistance with the design and development of online training solutions. When the number of inquiries exceeded what we could possibly handle, we decided to create a complete Instructional Design for ELearning program for those who are new to the digital learning industry and those who want to advance their current learning and education role and become eLearning instructional designers. This is when our collaboration originated!

Vanessa is the owner of Nexperk. She holds a Bachelor of Business, Human Resources Development, Facilitation Accreditation in Situational Leadership II with Blanchard International Australia, Certificate IV Training and Assessment, Australian Short Film Director and several Instructional Design courses. She served as the Australian Training & Development Institute Divisional Council President and is a multi-award-winning Learning Professional in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Vanessa is a 2021 finalist in the Empowered Woman Leadership Awards with the Leadership Institute.

Marina is the owner of Your ELearning World. She holds a Master's degree in Instructional Systems Design from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Marina is also Kirkpatrick's Bronze Level certified Training Evaluation professional. She is a multi-award-winning instructional designer. Recently, Marina received the "Top 100 Leaders in Education" award for significant contributions towards the field of education at GFEL. Marina has been working with top corporations and government agencies both in the United States and abroad. Her work has been featured in T&D magazine, ELearning Industry, Training Magazine, California Management Review, HR.com, SHRM, and more. She is the author of the Instructional Design for ELearning book.

If you are want to learn how to design measurable digital experiences from professionals who have already built a successful career in digital education, we cannot wait to see you inside our Instructional Design for ELearning program.