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

Association eLearning

At about the same time, in an equally close place, another frustrated reviewer tried to visualize a course based on only three columns of written descriptions: audio, onscreen visuals, and interactivity. The content was there, but they couldn’t picture how it was going to fit together. Placeholder Images Can Accidentally.

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Storyline Accessibility and Mayer’s Principles

Scissortail's Learning Nest

The Multimedia and Redundancy Principles Mayer’s research has found that people learn better through words and pictures than through words alone or pictures alone. Storyline allows us to add captions to video and audio files or to import caption files. Sometimes, I use three columns to include a thumbnail of the image as well.

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LHRCon 2024 Recap

Experiencing eLearning

Using Gen AI Multimodal Capabilities for Learning Development Josh Cavalier Josh explained how generative AI work with text, images, audio and video (multimodal). Josh showed a cool new feature of “speech to speech,” where you can record audio with a bunch of emotion, pauses, etc.,

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Webinar: How to Best Use Stock Photos, Videos and Audio in Your eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Stock assets are pictures , video , and audio that has been created for your use in any sort of project. Matt went into the audio section and selected several sound effects that he knew he could use with triggers in his Storyline project. Importing the stock audio and images is very easy in all of the tools.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Using Images and Audio in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

So, as we try to create more engaging and creative courses we are using more images, animations, and audio. Ruth’s article sites research that shows an increase in learning of almost 89% in courses with images. Ok, so we know that pictures help learning. However not all pictures are equally effective.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

Alt text, also known as alt description or alt attribute, is a textual description for non-text elements on the screen, such as images, graphics, photographs and drawings. If there is no alt text, the screen reader will simply say “IMAGE” with no frame of reference. Avoid the use of the term “image of” or “picture of”.

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