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Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning: Part 2

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Courses were prepared using software products that were almost all based, to a greater or lesser degree on the Microsoft PowerPoint model of slides, templates and bullet points.

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Interview with Carmen Simon – Part 2

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DE – in your presentation research, you talk about the “10% slide”—ways of reinforcing the key messages that you want to get across by, and repeating it throughout a presentation. In any PowerPoint template, I always advise people to use the opposite state in terms of the layout to enhance this 10% slide.

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Graphic Design for eLearning Part 2 – Space

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A few decades ago, “slides” were prepared on acetate sheets for overhead projectors. This kind of thinking transferred into the design of software like PowerPoint and hierarchies of bullet point levels. It’s partly due to the history of learning material design. It really is as simple as that.

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How will adopting an adaptive learning strategy help your business

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With a mix of Millennials and Gen-X’ers in your company, you fear that Millennial learners won’t take too kindly lengthy PowerPoint bulleted-text, while that’s all that seems to work with the older employees. 5) Evaluation challenges.

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The 6 common enterprise training mistakes and how to avoid them

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Adding some multimedia content also helps — video , pictures, and interactive widgets always beat endless bullet-ridden PowerPoint slides in the engagement department.

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Authentic Learning As An Engagement Strategy For Your eLearning Course

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They would refurbish PowerPoint slides to replace narrated presentations, the paper syllabuses and PDF files would be converted into online text. In this article, we’ll reveal this fine line that separates a quality course from the common “churned out” variety. The course pages would be jazzed up with graphics, images, or videos.

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How to apply Gagne’s nine events of instruction

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Include course objectives on slides and activity prompts. How: Match learning outcomes with the right format (for example, if you’re delivering first aid training, use video to highlight the motor skills required to perform the procedures and then a PowerPoint or infographic to summarize the theory behind the practice).