Many creative fields use critiques to improve the design concepts, mental models and their implementation. The input from others can bring new perspectives and insight to a draft or beta version of … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Prepare Audio Scripts for Recording
What does it take to have a smooth and efficient audio recording experience? It usually means extra work. This means you will need to create, format and organize a voiceover script that is separate … [Read more...]
DesignxHumanity: Adding Diverse Voices To LXD
A Conversation with Nyla Spooner
Do we talk enough about diversity, equity and inclusion in LXD? Do we do enough? DesignxHumanity (Design By Humanity) is changing the conversation and taking action. Their website explains that they … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning
The most efficient way to achieve consistency in the visual design of eLearning and presentation slides is to create a visual style guide. A style guide provides one graphical standard for everyone. … [Read more...]
ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design
A Conversation with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner
We know that people learn from each other in both formal and informal ways. Two people who have dedicated much of their life to understanding social learning and developing a framework around it are … [Read more...]
How Visual Clarity Affects Learning
Research on Processing Fluency
How do you react when you see a very complex diagram or a screen of dense text? Are you motivated to work through it? Or do you groan and turn away if it becomes too difficult? Processing Fluency If … [Read more...]
5 Levers Of eLearning Design
How can you continually improve the learning experiences you design to make them more effective? Pull these levers a bit more with every new effort. 1. Motivation Start with the person. Who are the … [Read more...]
Starting a Learning Design Team
It may not be as easy as pressing a button, but with enough research and planning, your organization can build a learning design team. You will need to define its purpose and understand the roles that … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
Whether you're dealing with stakeholders, subject matter experts, internal clients or external customers, some issues are bound to arise during the design and development of learning experiences. … [Read more...]
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
With 6 Additional Sites Added From Readers!
Paid stock photo sites have many advantages over the free ones because of their massive collections, efficiency of search filters, light boxes for saving favorites and (hopefully) better pay for … [Read more...]
ELC 067: Educating the New Instructional Designer
A Conversation with Jason McDonald
How should instructors and professors educate instructional designers to meet the needs of the modern workplace? This episode focuses on the challenges and solutions facing instructional design … [Read more...]