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5 Ways to Kill an eLearning Course

eLearning Brothers

It’s the job of the text to give the same information in an abbreviated form, a small sentence at most. Over Use of Clipart and Freebies. Clipart and other one-size-fits-all freebies are handy to have but can only take you so far. Clipart and other one-size-fits-all freebies are handy to have but can only take you so far.

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How to Choose the Best Images for Your e-Learning

Trivantis

We’ve all seen e-Learning that features endless stock photos of people in business environments, sitting at desks but not actually doing anything related to the job your learners are training for. Your image should be more than just generic clipart. Don’t fall into that trap! Does it attract your learners’ attention?

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Using Custom Artwork to Build Beautiful eLearning Without Breaking the Budget

eLearning Architect

We've all spent hours in front of eLearning or PowerPoint presentations filled with dodgy clipart or stock photos. And therefore it was my job to come up with a solution that was going to delight our client and not eat into our margin. One of the biggest challenges when creating a course is finding relevant, high quality graphics.

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Launch your LMS using these critical tactics

Litmos

Which is situated directly to some irrelevant clipart. It is our job as learning professionals to change people's perception of what online content can be. And it's your job to educate them. And who can blame them? We have been subjected to this type of online learning for the past 10 years, and before that on CD-ROM.

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Use Your LMS to ???Get Personal??? with Your Learners

Mindflash

What if you also pinged learners proactively about things like upcoming courses of relevance to their job or additional resources when you saw that they did not perform well in a course or on a quiz (e.g., documents, discussion forums, subject matter experts available to help)? The days of boring online training are long gone.No

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The Powerpoint Dozen

Sticky Learning

Do not use cartoonish clipart , what does it add (distraction). If you need an image to support a point, use real images, you can download many images from Microsoft's clipart page. Yes, they do make the job of creating diagrams and charts very simple BUT if you're slide deck is full of these they quickly lose their impact.

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VizThink and Visual Thinking and Learning - Still Not Sure

Tony Karrer

I think he's done a wonderful job pulling together what looks to be a very interesting conference. He has a wonderful background including being director of eLearning at Root Learning and working for Masie organizing events. He is now CEO of Vizthink - and is organizing and running VizThink '08.