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Relationships
Reflecting on reconnecting with old friends and the importance of building and maintaining relationships, even for bookish introverts.
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Designing learning for safeguarding
I recently completed a project that was about as far from my corporate learning ‘safe zone’ as it is possible to get. It was great to learn something completely different, and apply my skills to a new area. Here’s what happened…
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2025 update
Reflecting on a busy second half of 2024. Key projects included redesigning sales training materials, creating digital learning on adult safeguarding, and developing modules on digital marketing skills for African entrepreneurs. Resolutions for 2025 include growing my freelance practice and pursuing…
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Rise Scenarios – Choose your own adventure for real this time
The final episode of the series explores creating complex branching scenarios using button stacks in Articulate Rise. This method offers multiple options and varying story outcomes based on learner choices. While it allows for flexibility and creativity, it may pose challenges…
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Rise Scenarios: Choose your own adventure
This post explores another way to create scenarios in Articulate Rise. This option combines a standard Rise content block with a Knowledge Check block, allowing more media options and instant feedback for more flexibility. This approach allows for instant feedback. Find…
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Rise Scenarios: Quizzing
The post explores different ways to present scenarios in Articulate Rise, inspired by an article on the Articulate community site. The first part focused on Rise’s Scenario Block. This post looks at how to frame a scenario as a test that…
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Playing with scenarios in Articulate RISE
Learning design emphasizes using stories and scenarios to engage people emotionally and apply their knowledge effectively. In this very short series, I’ll look at how you can use Articulate Rise to build scenarios into digital learning, starting with Rise’s own Scenario…
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5Di and Content Design
A recent project pushed me into a new areas – creating content for a prototype app for frontline care workers in the UK. I combined parts of the 5Di framework with Ros Atkins’ ideas to identify the audience requirements and condense…
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All about 5 Moments of Need
A 5-minute guide to the 5 Moments of Need design methodology and some ideas about how to use Rise 360 to create instant learning.
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Design great content for learning
A link to a micro learning resource that reviews two books on content design and how the ideas could be incorporated into a learning designer’s practice.
Welcome to my blog!
I collaborate with stakeholders, learners and SMEs to identify learning needs and establish measurable performance metrics, and use this information to design learning that enables learners to reach their full potential and perform excellently. In this blog, I aim to share my expertise, insights, and experiences.
Sarah Slade 