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How to Do a Quality Assurance Self-Check on Your Own eLearning
Before you send your eLearning on for a quality review, how well do you test it yourself? A Quality Assurance (QA) self-check may seem like an obvious task, but some people pass on their eLearning courses for QA when the work is filled with errors. Within a few minutes, the reviewer or tester can tell […]
How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning
The most efficient way to achieve visual design consistency in eLearning and presentation slides is to create a visual style guide. A style guide provides one graphical standard for everyone.
ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design
I speak with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner about the big ideas in their book, Learning to Make a Difference. They share ways that we can live and learn intentionally in a social learning context.
How Visual Clarity Affects Learning
Processing fluency refers to the ease with which a person processes information. A high processing fluency benefits learning.
5 Levers Of eLearning Design
How can you continually improve the learning experiences you design? Pull these levers a bit more with every new effort.
Cognitive Psychology
How Visual Clarity Affects Learning
Processing fluency refers to the ease with which a person processes information. A high processing fluency benefits learning.
Long-Term Memory: A User’s Guide
In learning, long-term memory is the ultimate destination. Here’s what you should know about how we encode, store and retrieve memories.
Designing Learning for Mental Models
By understanding a learner’s mental models, we can improve our user interfaces, instructional interventions and overall learning experiences.
Graphics
How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning
The most efficient way to achieve visual design consistency in eLearning and presentation slides is to create a visual style guide. A style guide provides one graphical standard for everyone.
How Visual Clarity Affects Learning
Processing fluency refers to the ease with which a person processes information. A high processing fluency benefits learning.
The Visual Design of Checklists
The visual design of a checklist has both a utilitarian and an aesthetic aspect. Here are several types of checklists you can adapt to meet your needs.
Use Visual Cues To Enhance Learning
Visual cues direct the eyes to the relevant information in a graphic. This helps ensure that people understand the intended message and adds efficiency to visual communication.
5 Steps To A PowerPoint Redesign
A consistent process to transform poorly designed slides into ones that are instructionally effective.
How to Improve Your Visual Design Skills
Visual design may seem like a mysterious process, but there is a formula for improving your skills. I’ve outlined it here.
Instructional Design
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
You never know when it’s going to hit the fan. Take these steps to avoid trouble.
Answers To Instructional Design Career Questions
Instructional design career opportunities are growing all over the world. Questions and answers about breaking into instructional design.
Alternatives to Correct and Incorrect
Eight options for providing feedback that is informative, motivating and corrects misconceptions, moving the learner forward.
Finding Your Place In an Instructional Design Career
No need to be a square peg in a round hole. There are lots of options for instructional designers and developers.
ELC 065: Pro Tips For Working With Subject Matter Experts
Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Dawn Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs.
The World Needs More Checklists
The checklist is one of the most brilliant cognitive aids around. Hidden in this simple format is an ingenious type of performance support.