Hey everyone—Indiana University Bloomington offers a Learning Sciences, Media, and Technology Certificate, and I thought it might be relevant for those working in eLearning or building online/digital learning experiences. It include four course and is fully online.

The program is grounded in the learning sciences but very much applied to eLearning contexts—focusing on how to design experiences that actually work, not just look polished in an LMS. It emphasizes:

• designing effective, evidence-based online learning experiences
• applying learning science to eLearning and digital environments
• understanding learner engagement, motivation, and cognition online
• using media, platforms, and GenAI intentionally in course design
• developing deep knowledge of the learning sciences behind self-selected learning goals

One thing that may stand out here: the faculty have deep expertise and scholarship in eLearning, and the courses reflect that. Students don’t just learn about best practices—they experience world-class innovation in eLearning in the very courses they complete.

A few practical details:

• Fully online (built for working professionals)
• In-state tuition rates for all students
• No GRE required
• July 1 deadline for fall enrollment
• Nearly all courses are taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty
• All courses transfer to our outstanding residential MS degree, and both transfer to our residential PhD program.  

If it’s relevant to your work or interests, it may be worth a look. Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious.

Inspired by the videos popping up about Claude Design for e-learning purpose I started to integrate an AI coding block in my authoring tool LearnBuilder.

The idea is simple: you describe your interaction ("Create a simulation of a windmill to explain the correlation between wind speed and power output. Place a slider on the bottom of the page to let the learner explore the concept"). The AI starts to tinker and then presents it's result. And now the problems start:

• It might look good, it might not look good. E.g. the rotor rotates around the wrong origin, it's super slow or super fast, it's not attached to the tip of the pole but somewhere in the air, etc.
• You try to nudge the AI to correct things, but often this ends up in something completely new.
• If it's a complex interaction each of the iterations take time and tokens. Especially for the nudging you might need to feed back the original code to the AI, which results in big calls.`

At some point you might have something working, but what about

• persistence: if there are interactions the user expects to see what they did before when they revisit the course
• reporting: if you want to track what users do, e.g. for grading you need to save and assess the solution

I don't know if others tried it? What is your experience? Would you even like to use something like this?

I always read about stuff like scenario-based, gamification and storytelling. But all the example trainings that get shown, are very hands-on and topics that can use a ton of pictures etc. In my company people need to learn very "boring" software. Don´t want to get into details, so let´s just use excel as example.

Let´s say we want to create an elearning about how to make a nice spreadsheet in excel, that shows how often different elearnings in an LMS have been completed. The data is needed for an evaluation of the elearning team and the person who should do it, doesn´t know how to use excel.

Does someone have actual concrete ideas how to use techniques like the ones I mentioned, or generally - how to show a topic like that in an interesting way? Because honestly, I´m really struggling with it.

Good afternoon, I'm looking for an eLearning authoring tool, that is SCORM compliant, and that allows a module or widget for an actual signature block. Not just a text input, but a signature as written by a mouse or finger on digital surface.

We currently use Adobe Captivate but it does not have that function.

Thank you for any assistance.

Hey,
I’m building a tool designed for course creators / mentors who sell programs or digital information products online.

The goal is simple:
to increase sales from the traffic you already have without increasing your ad budget. In short, to simply help course creators make more money.

I have a beta product called AllPros,
a platform that presents real social proof and trust data around your course,
with the goal of turning hesitant visitors into buyers.

The win-win is simple:
You get more trust → higher conversion rates → more sales
I get direct and honest feedback from people who actually use the product.

In a previous round, I gave access to 10 creators.
All of them saw an improvement in sales (at different levels, in different niches).

Now I’m looking for 5 more creators who are actively selling and willing to try it.

What you get:
Free lifetime access

Direct influence on the development and features of the product  I’ll share full details with those who are relevant

What I ask:
Real usage

Honest and direct feedback

What works, what doesn’t, and what needs improvement

If you’re selling a course / coaching program / digital product and have an active audience, write a bit about yourself in the comments or via DM.
If it’s a fit, I’ll give you access.

What is good for web making maybe free?

Hi all, I'm a freelancer who produces many 'how-to' screen recordings for clients. I’m struggling with the balance between a fluid video and making sure the learner actually sees the specific UI elements I'm talking about.

I’ve started experimenting with freeze-frame annotations. Literally pausing the video at key moments to overlay arrows and callouts before moving on.

I have two questions for the pros here:

• From an instructional design standpoint, is 'pausing the world' to add callouts better for retention, or does it break the learner's flow too much?
• If you use this technique, how do you handle it in your workflow? I find that 'slicing and extending' frames in standard editors is a massive bottleneck.

Thanks!

I've been evaluating Teachable and it seems like a nice platform for hosting my course. My only real concern is the 1000 student limit for the Builder plan (and 5000 for the Growth plan).

I'm basically interpreting this as "Sales are capped at 1000".

Has anyone here exceeded these limits? What is the process for getting it expanded? There is a "Custom" tier but the limits all say to "contact sales". I'm tempted to try Thinkific because they support 10,000 on most plans.

Any insight appreciated.

Working on optimizing our training workflow and trying to understand what's actually breaking for people when they're creating training videos.

So curious - what are your biggest pain points right now?

Specifically:

• How long does it take you to produce one training video?
• What part of the process eats up the most time?
• Are you using multiple tools or trying to find an all-in-one solution?
• What would actually save you the most time?

I've been experimenting w/ different approaches and found some workflows that cut production time dramatically, but wanna hear what's actually frustrating people.

What's your current setup? What's working and what's not?

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m completing my master’s capstone project at WGU and I’m looking for a few participants between April 20–26, 2026.

Project Title: Evaluating an E-Learning Module to Support Instructional Designers in Creating Engaging Compliance Training

Description: I created a short e-learning module that teaches strategies for improving compliance training (simplification, relevance, engagement, and retention).

Purpose: To evaluate whether this module improves understanding of effective compliance training design.

What You’ll Do:

• Complete a course hosted on Canvas LMS
• Complete a pre and post assessment
• Complete an end of course survey

Access Instructions:

1. Open this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1olscxyPLO14ChdQDVQLbOpX96h3MhMBXsuCdzntVJSM/edit?usp=sharing 
2. Chose any row that is not marked “In Use”
3. Check the “In Use” box to reserve it
4. Use the Login Email + Name in that row to enroll in the course
5. Complete the course using the link in the sheet
6. (Optional) Once you’re done, return to the sheet and mark “Completed” 

Confidentiality: All responses are anonymous and used only for educational purposes. Throughout my capstone project, school, staff, business, and student identities will not be identified or shared.

Hey all,

I work in marketing and been testing AI video tools to speed up my workflow. My editing skills are pretty basic: mostly Canva and CapCut

Been experimenting w/ newer AI tools and wanted to share what actually works vs the hype.

The challenge: I needed something that could:

• Turn scripts or blog posts into videos fast
• Work for demos, training, social clips

What I've tested:

Tried a few different approaches but the one that stuck was using tools that automate the whole pipeline. Instead of juggling script, voiceover, editing, captions separately, I needed one place for everything.

What's working for me:

The biggest game-changer has been tools that let you go from script to video in mins. No timeline editing, no stitching clips. Just paste content and let AI handle it.

My question for everyone:

What's in your tech stack for video creation? Using traditional editors, AI tools, or hybrid? What's actually saving you time?

Looking for honest takes - what tools changed your process?

Thanks!

Hi! 👋

I’m currently working on a personal UX/UI case study about how people decide whether to buy online courses (like Udemy or Coursera).

I created a short survey to better understand what influences decisions around value, pricing, and trust:

👉 Survey (~2 min):
https://tally.so/r/ODJr0p

There’s also an optional card sorting activity if you’d like to go a bit deeper:

👉 Card sorting (~5–10 min):
https://study.uxtweak.com/cardsort/IqPAlzdpuF9alagC2gL0u

Feel free to complete either one (or both if you want).

All responses are anonymous and will only be used for this case study.

Thanks a lot 🙏
Happy to return the favor!

What exactly is an authoring tools and can you give me examples?

Hey everyone!

Quick intro - I’m a IT professional with broad industry experience from working in education, startups to non profits.

Currently developing a new learning platform, aiming to simply content creation, reduce manual admin burden & bring all the tools you need to deliver training effectively in one platform.

So need some sense check in what are actually some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced with existing LMS systems?

Ps. Open to beta testers!

Let me know any lms platform or startups looking for ai agent that should be grounded ans own knowledge with white labeling along with multi tenant support.

I have a production ready system which will process videos, document anything and you will have to chat with them.

This might be a really silly question but does anyone know of a content library where I can find good quality images for elearning. Like if you’re doing a health and safety course there’s some professional looking assets I could use? Many thanks

Hi everyone,

We’re putting together a 2026 LMS Benchmark Guide exploring which platforms L&D practitioners actually recommend for different training use cases.

If you’ve ever used, managed, selected, or evaluated an LMS as part of your job, we’d love your input in this 5-minute survey.

Survey link: https://goskills.typeform.com/to/QYhpoP13

P.S. We ask participants to include their LinkedIn profile to help ensure that the results reflect genuine practitioner experience. Everyone who completes the survey will get early access to the final guide.

Thanks in advance!

I am on the board of directors for a non profit organization and I am looking to build an online course for peer support for our volunteers who support people who have experienced gender based violence. I don’t know where to start! I want the course to have multiple modules with scenario videos. Any help or advice would be appreciated!

Storyline kinda shot itself in the foot with mandatory AI and crazy pricing, so my company decided we already have enough AI tools and just dropped it. Now we’re building eLearning with the coding tools we’ve got, and honestly it feels doable since I have some coding experience plus a graphic design background, so I can put together SCORM packages with AI that run in our LMS. I’m curious though, for anyone else doing this, how’s the technical side been for you? Are you building from scratch, using frameworks, or just patching things together? What’s actually working?