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Storyline Accessibility and Mayer’s Principles

Scissortail's Learning Nest

If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell. 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.

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4 Tips to Writing eLearning Scripts That Sing

Association eLearning

Wouldn’t you like to write a script with that kind of impact? According to Bean, the first tip to writing a great eLearning script is to write like a human. According to Bean, the first tip to writing a great eLearning script is to write like a human. Also, remember that “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

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

Association eLearning

The content was there, but they couldn’t picture how it was going to fit together. put a placeholder shape where an image is supposed to go and write a short description on the shape like, “Stethoscope image”. If you’d like to read more about instructional design best practices, check out the rest of this author’s blogs.

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Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs

Experiencing eLearning

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. E-learning.

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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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Inclusive Learning, Free Images & More: ID Links 1/3/23

Experiencing eLearning

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels. Writing them isn’t necessarily as easy as generating typical recognition questions, but they more closely mimic the actual task, and therefore lead to better transfer. Atlas Icons. Clark Quinn.

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Bit by the Instructional Design Bug: A Conversation with Connie Malamed

TalentLMS

And our work is incredibly varied—analyzing content, interviewing audience members, designing user interfaces, developing eLearning, writing video scripts, and more. Or you could be writing a video script and going to a shoot.” For example, education, psychology, writing, graphic design. And so on.” “In