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Ethan has been designing online instruction for almost 25 years, beginning with work at the PLATO laboratory at the University of Illinois, continuing through positions at Authorware, Macromedia, Microsoft, and as a consultant with a host of top companies in the United States and abroad. As Chief Knowledge Officer at Allen Interactions, a nationally recognized company dedicated to creating the world's best custom e-learning applications, Ethan is responsible for internal and external training and communication regarding Allen Interactions' unique perspective on designing and developing meaningful and memorable e-learning programs. While focused primarily on corporate training, Ethan has comprehensive experience with education and government institutions, having worked extensively in libraries and schools as a full-time consultant with the Lincoln Trail Libraries System in Champaign, Illinois. He is also a licensed secondary mathematics teacher. He has spoken at conferences and private presentations throughout the world.

Ethan Edwards

E-learning expert Ethan Edwards emphasizes how important it is for L&D professionals to embrace the DESIGN aspect of instructional design.

5 Lessons for Designing Engaging E-Learning Interactions . . . From Project Runway

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Why Do We Continue to Perpetuate and Promote Ineffective E-Learning?

E-Learning Design's Lost Focus on the Learner

When learners often take the path of least resistance in an e-learning course, how do you motivate the learner while still doing the serious work of instruction? In this webcast, Ethan Edwards will explore the importance of motivation in e-learning design. He’ll present rules to create motivating e-learning, illustrated through several corporate e-learning courses.
During this webcast, you will:

Analyze the importance of motivation in an e-learning design framework.
Apply six rules for creating motivating e-learning solutions.
Examine design considerations for content, scope, difficulty, judgment, leveling, content placement, and user control.


6 Rules to Designing E-Learning for Maximum Motivation

’Tis the season of holiday sweaters—each lovingly created with good intent, sometimes gaudy, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes utilitarian, but rarely as beautiful as imagined. The same can often be said about e-learning course designs. We start out with the intention to create something uniquely satisfying for our learners, but after accounting for strained resources, limited time, imperfect development tools, complex subject matter, and unpredictable learners, we end up with something not quite as beautiful as we’d hoped.
In this light-hearted holiday webcast, Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist at Allen Interactions, will share lessons we can learn from common e-learning design and development pitfalls as he compares them to and celebrates ugly holiday sweaters! 

Avoiding Ugly E-Learning: Lessons From Holiday Sweaters

In many professional areas, it is usually a good strategy to look to common practices in the field as a guide - maybe not for the most cutting-edge ideas, but at least for reliable models to follow. Unfortunately, in e-learning this can often be a recipe for disaster.
Join Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist with Allen Interactions, on a journey uncovering the 10 most common design practices that are sure to ruin your e-learning.

10 Ways to Ruin Your E-Learning: A How-To Guide in Reverse

This session looks to definitions of interactivity, principles of adult learning, guidelines for individualization, and game design principles to outline a single, concise, and powerful design model for effective online interactivity. Leave with a pr

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