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Section 508 and WCAG: Why Should a Learning Designer Care

CommLab India

How to make e-learning courses accessible to all as mandated by the law? Text and images have a minimum ratio of 4.5:1. Contrast ratio helps determine whether people with color blindness and visual impairments can discern the contrast between 2 colors. Recommended Visual Design Standards for E-learning.

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Myth #6: learning and development should try to achieve a ratio of 70:20:10

Docebo

Learning and development – Should you strive for a “perfect” ratio of 70:20:10? Should Learning and Development professionals strive for a firm 70:20:10 ratio , or are the numbers more flexible? 70:20:10 is not about trying to achieve a set ratio. Sometimes the best solutions may only use one activity area.

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Four Steps to Deeper Learning

Upside Learning

Deeper learning is about the application of learning science to achieve the meaningful outcomes such interventions should deliver. That’s a mistake; small differences actually make a big difference in whether learning will achieve the dual grails of retention and transfer. In it, they pointed out nuances that matter.

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Types and proportions of learning activities?

Clark Quinn

I’ve been on quite the roll of late, calling out some bad practices and calling for learning science. So let me be clear, I strongly suggest that the types of learning that are needed are not info dump and knowledge test, by and large. What sort of learning helps model-based reasoning? What does that mean? Make sense?

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you.

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

There’s always a tremendous amount of activity at the year’s end to think about what the coming year will bring. What should learning & development (L&D) be doing? Learning Science One of the areas we actively investigate, and apply, is learning science. How do we reconcile these disparate trends?

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Accessibility Matters: The Fundamentals of Achieving Accessible Content

CourseArc

In fact, we have endless blogs and resources on the topic of accessibility, so anyone curious to learn more can access them at the click of a button. And, coincidentally, if you are curious to learn more, join us for part II of our Actionable Accessibility Advice webinar series this Thursday, March 30, 2023. Register here.) . –

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