Learn how to create effective online training courses for your digital academy, following the best instructional design practices and a fine-tuned process. Our Digital Learning Solutions team shares their process and pro tips to help you be efficient and effective in your video course creation.

Do you feel that you don’t have the right skills to create an engaging video? Know that you don’t need to be an expert or have a huge budget to invest in an editing software and start producing high-quality videos. There are some amazing free and user-friendly options you can use to achieve great results.

When creating a video training course, there are some aspects you need to keep in mind if you want to draw your student’s attention and increase their memory retention.

There are many video formats you can use to convey your message. When you are creating a video training course, it’s important to make sure you use the right format for the message you want to convey in the most effective way.

Every day, in everything we do, we communicate. When our goal is to teach something or to share knowledge with someone, we need to be sure that our message is well-understood. Visual communication has that power. Let’s explore why.

You might have heard that leaders are only as good as their teams, but one can argue that the opposite is also true: teams are only as good as their leaders.

We all know that video is the most popular medium for communication and sharing information. We also know that video training is a great way to enhance performance, as it provides a standardized method of sharing knowledge throughout an organization and is a way to communicate in an engaging manner with all its stakeholders. But there’s more to video besides being trendy.

“We need you to present this course.” Dreaded words for many of us that would prefer to get a back massage by a gorilla than to be in front of a camera. When I received this request, I felt a mix of excitement (I confess!) and, you guessed it: overwhelming fear. Spoiler alert: it was actually quite a fun and fulfilling experience so, for you, my fellow “camerafobics”, I’m sharing some tips to help you go through it and get a great result.

When creating a video course, there are a few steps you need to take to ensure you get the best result in terms of conveying the message, keeping your learners engaged and ensure maximum retention. Also, following these steps will guarantee a more efficient production from start to finish. In this article, we are sharing some pro tips on the (very important) first step: defining the course’s scope.

Nowadays, a significant part of our life is digital, mostly spent online. We work online, we communicate online, we have fun online, we share online. Actually, we share a lot online – from work files to family photos - but most of all we share knowledge.