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If the User Experience Annoys, Fix It.

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For instance, the UX of reading a book includes opening the cover to get to the text, turning the pages to see more text, and closing the cover when you’re done reading. This is true of all books, regardless of what each book is about. This doesn’t include the content, it’s just about “how it works.”

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Writing Effective eLearning Narration: Making It Easy to Read, Say, and Comprehend

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Reading straight from a book, of course, is not conversational. But what I have found is that the narrated portion of courses is often written like something you would find in a textbook. The problem here is that all people, regardless of age or experience with digital media, generally expect the narration to be conversational.

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Be a Learner, Try Something New

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Read a New Book. There’s plenty that can be learned from books, both non-fiction and fiction. A “how-to” book is pretty straight forward. Chances are you have at least one unread book lying around your home or an unread ebook on one of your devices. It exists specifically to teach something. This one is pretty easy to do.

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How to Create eLearning Using PowerPoint

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For more tips, I recommend Jane Bozarth’s book Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint. Download my sample course for the “Association of Puppies,” click the Slide Show tab, and then click From Beginning. Here you will see an example of all of the “Do’s” listed above in action!

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Writing Effective eLearning Narration: Making It Easy to Read, Say, and Comprehend

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Reading straight from a book, of course, is not conversational. But what I have found is that the narrated portion of courses is often written like something you would find in a textbook. The problem here is that all people, regardless of age or experience with digital media, generally expect the narration to be conversational.

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Choice is Key in Learning

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And I have clear memories of the merit badge book. Looking back, that book offered a lot of choices. That’s how the merit badge book worked. I was in Girl Scouts when I was younger. Each badge required me to do something different to earn it. Then I remembered that many organizations don’t offer their learners that choice.

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Interactive: What Does It Really Mean?

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Is a choose your own adventure book interactive? I do count picking which page to turn to in a choose your own adventure book as meaningful. When you stop to think about it, that’s not very clear. So, is eLearning with nothing but a next button interactive? The learner clicks something. The reader picks which page to turn to.