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Creating Better Content with Lessons Learned from Brain Research

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Creating Better Content with Lessons Learned. It’s important for instructional designers to create learning experiences for all—including designing materials that empower neurodivergent students. This overview provides just a small sample of how brain research can be applied to creating learning content. from Brain Research.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content. Despite good intentions, not all website content is created equal. Well-executed content creates a better user experience for everyone. We’re not talking about the design aesthetics (though we’ve discussed this in previous posts ) — we’re talking about accessibility.

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How to Create Effective Test Questions

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How to Create Effective Tests and Quizzes. Whether your questions involve True/False answers, Multiple Choice responses, Matching items, Fill-in-the-Blanks or Essay responses, good questions must demonstrate all of these traits.

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Tips for Managing Assets When Creating a Collaborative Course

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First, get all your key players together (in-person or virtually) and create an action plan that answers the following questions: What is the full scope of the project? As such, a collaborative project with more than one set of standards for a specific deliverable (like creating project documentation) is doomed to fail!

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3 Steps for Creating Online Courses Your Students Will Love and Remember

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Seth’s advice also applies to creating eLearning content for students. Here are three best practices for analyzing your target audience before you develop course content, so you can create media that actually connects. You find products for your customers”. End Before Beginning.

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Generational Differences

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When instructional designers create courses for Baby Boomers, they should remember that this generation did not grow up with all the technology that is now coming into the world; therefore, courses designed for this audience must have an intuitive interface. The three main generations are… Baby Boomers : Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964).

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Best Practices for Voice-Over

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Here are some key principles related to creating multimedia content that Mayer shares: Redundancy Principle – People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, narration, and on-screen text. Here are some tips for creating great voice-over. Oftentimes, the subject matter experts record audio themselves.

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