Most people know that stock photos for eLearning and slides are often substandard. When you search stock photo sites for people performing various jobs, most images don't show people working. Rather, … [Read more...]
Sources for Free Stock Videos
The Bad and Good News Let's get on with the bad news first. Free stock videos are most likely not going to provide the instructional content you need. And if you are looking for footage of people, … [Read more...]
Using A Comic Book Style For Learning
The Value of Instructional Comics
I thought it was time to republish this conversation with the author of See What I Mean. Depending on the audience, content and context, low fidelity graphics—like simple line drawings—can be more … [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 the people … [Read more...]
8 Ways To Choose A Color Palette For eLearning
One of the most frustrating aspects of learning design is choosing a color palette for eLearning. The color palette refers to the limited and predefined set of colors you use in a design. If we … [Read more...]
Which graphic should I use for eLearning?
Choosing the right chart or graph.
Visuals have the potential to add great meaning to a learning experience. The human brain devotes more resources to processing visual information (for sighted individuals) than to any other sense. Yet … [Read more...]
6 Alternatives To Bullet Points in eLearning and Slides
Get Rid Of Those Text Heavy Slides
Bullet points make a sequence of important ideas easy to read. When those near-perfect little circles are vertically aligned, readers can quickly process the text. Yet too many bullet points in an … [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...]
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...]
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
Stock Photos for Instructional Design
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...]
Planning A Training Video Production
How to Produce Training Videos
Did you ever end up on a project that required video and somehow you became the default expert? That's what happened to me early in my career. At first, it was a bit unnerving. But like any hard-core … [Read more...]
Creating Interactive Content With H5P
If you're looking for a way to make web content interactive, check out H5P. It is a user-friendly application that makes it easy for LX designers, writers, presenters and publishers to deliver … [Read more...]