Although retrieval practice and spaced learning may be more well-known, elaboration is an instructional strategy worth our attention. Elaboration strategies refer to the many ways of connecting prior … [Read more...]
Using Critiques To Improve Learning Experience Design
How to Run Design Critiques for Learning Experience Design
Critiques for learning experience design are beginning to catch on. The input from others can bring new perspectives and insight to a draft or beta version of any work. Critiques are a collaborative … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Prepare Audio Scripts for Recording
Writing and Formatting Voiceover Scripts
What does it take to have a smooth and efficient audio recording experience? It usually means putting in lots of time and effort into perfecting the audio script for voiceovers. This often means you … [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
Quality Assurance Testing
Before you send your eLearning on for a quality review, how well do you test it yourself? Doing your own QA or quality assurance testing may seem like an obvious task. Yet too many people pass on … [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? Complex or dense … [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 an instructional design team. You will need to define its purpose and understand the … [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 More Sites from Readers
Many of us must work on projects with small budgets that require free resources. Fortunately, free or cheap stock photo sites can save the day. In the last several years, the quality of free stock has … [Read more...]