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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. It would be great if final images could be used during the storyboarding phase, but that’s rarely possible.

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Storyline Accessibility and Mayer’s Principles

Scissortail's Learning Nest

I’ve got it pinned to my bulletin board for quick reference when I forget which number is which. Storyline Accessibility for Multimedia Application of these principles has led to the common practice of developing eLearning that uses images synchronized with audio narration. The University of Hartford also has a useful one-pager.

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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. Tips to image efficiency: Irrelevant or gratuitous images actually depress learning.

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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2021

Experiencing eLearning

I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. While I nearly always pay professional voice over artists rather than record narration myself, I often end up doing minor audio edits. Audacity is free, open source, and does everything I need for quick audio revisions. Affinity Designer. PowerPoint.

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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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Scenario-Based Learning Design – Core Structure and Implementation

Upside Learning

Introductions are different types of examples; they’re not used as a reference about how models work in context, but instead are motivating about why the coming learning is important. Media We’ve seen scenarios executed as text adventures, graphic novel formats, audio stories, branching video, and full games.

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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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