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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. (Links are included at the end of this post.)

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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Multimedia Principle – People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone. Oftentimes, the subject matter experts record audio themselves. ” Two hundred words typically equals 1 minute of produced audio, so if you are trying to keep the multimedia clip short, you may need to trim the script.

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A Voice for Learning? Exploring the Pros and Cons of Having Audio Narration in eLearning

IT Training Department Blog

The science promoting the use of audio narration in eLearning is strong, but the cons must still be considered. Before we get into the details, let me paint a nice picture for you when narration is in a course. Then there’s the issue with AI voice over which even the best of them sounds mostly pretty bad. The premise?

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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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What You Need to Know to Get the Best Audio

TechSmith Camtasia

Audio Best Practices. Nothing turns off viewers faster than a video with bad audio. If you’re recording with mobile devices or lower end cameras, they will most likely have very poor built-in mics that are designed to pick up a wide pattern of sound. They do a great job of picking up only the audio that is close by.

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17 Best Royalty-Free Music Sites for Video Courses

learnWorlds

And while it may be obvious that your course should offer highly educational and engaging content with a balance between video and text, what about the audio? We’re talking about adding some flair to your videos with audio. Audio Jungle AudioJungle is part of the Envato Market, where you can find top-quality music starting from $1.

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