Articles & Books

Patti Shank, PhD, CPT, is an award winning author with a passion for sharing her knowledge and skills with others. She writes regularly for The eLearning Guild (Learning Solutions Magazine and Guild research reports) and Magna’s Online Classroom, and regularly contributes articles and chapters for a wide variety of training, e-learning, and teaching and learning publications and books.

Reports and articles that are freely available can be downloaded below. Her books are available from Amazon and elsewhere. If you want to buy her books in quantity, contact Patti so she can get you in touch with the publisher for discounts.

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Make the Complex Understandable: Show, Don’t Tell

Learning Solutions Magazine article about how to make complex information more concise, understandable, memorable, and fun.

February 18, 2011

Tags: instructional design,visual

What Guild Research Has to Say about e-Learning Trends

Archive of Patti’s 12/9/2010 Guild Online Forum presentation on trends appearing over the past year of Guild Research including the most-frequently-adopted e-Learning approaches, tools, and and technologies.

December 17, 2010

The MOST Crucial Learning Activities and Media

eLearning Guild Learning Solutions article that describes a simple, logical process that gets you to fairly obvious conclusions about what learning activities are most critical in an instructional situation. The result is instruction that are more likely to get learners where they really need to be.

November 15, 2010

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