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Placeholder Images: Do They Help or Hurt in an eLearning Storyboard?

Association eLearning

Not so long ago, in a nearby place, someone spent a lot of time leaving notes about the photos in an eLearning storyboard. The final course was going to use a different set of stock photos. Placeholder images help people visualize what a course is supposed to look like and how it’s laid out. That’s really valuable.

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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

And while instructional design is a vital component to the effectiveness of an eLearning course, other elements can either help elevate your course content or detract from it. If you need to make your own custom design, there are many different tools that can help you create your own custom eLearning color scheme. #5:

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Graphic Design Books for New eLearning Designers

Tim Slade

In her book, Connie focuses on how graphic and visual design can help elevate (or worse, detract from) your learning content. Robin also includes simple exercises to help you develop your “eye” for graphic design. Mistakes to Avoid When Using Photos in eLearning. Download 250+ Free Stock Photos for eLearning.

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Shutterstock vs. iStock for presentation photos

BrightCarbon

Previously, we’d pretty much exclusively been using iStock for our commercial-use presentation photos. Often in a presentation, when trying to tell a visual story with lots of relevant images, our designers want photos that work well as a sequence. This means that we can easily use Shutterstock photos in presentations to tell stories.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives. A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences.

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Show, Don’t Tell For Scenario Feedback

Experiencing eLearning

This is one place where it’s critical to have photos showing more than the standard stock photo happy expressions. For each response in the branching scenario, I determined the motivation level on a five-point scale and matched the corresponding photo to the response.

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25 Random Acts of Kindness for L&D Professionals

Scissortail's Learning Nest

It can help build a sense of camaraderie, which helps people feel more engaged, and that can help them be more successful. It can even help us be healthier and live longer ! Help a colleague with their workload. Send a funny meme or cute pet photo to a colleague who’ll appreciate it. Mentor someone.