Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 22, 2023

This is one place where it’s critical to have photos showing more than the standard stock photo happy expressions. For each response in the branching scenario, I determined the motivation level on a five-point scale and matched the corresponding photo to the response. Streamlining Branching Scenario Planning and Design.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 10, 2020

Last week’s most clicked item: ‘The Show’ Learning Design Competition. In this great post from Devlin Peck, introduces 5 NoCode tools to design and develop eLearning. Clive Shepherd reflects on how central storytelling has become so central to his approach to learning design. Top 5 NoCode Tools for E-learning.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 16, 2014

by AJ Walther    I like design. But when someone else is paying me for a design, I need my process to be three things: fast, inexpensive (or free?), Let's say someone gives me a photo and wants me to design around that. Do you have any time-saving design tips or online tools you'd like to share? 

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LearnDash

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve talked a lot on this blog about the importance of good instructional design , which often focuses on how educators create course content. However, a key aspect of good instructional design is how that material is presented, visually. The ease with which a learner understand information is called “processing fluency.”

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Thinkific

JULY 25, 2022

So you are all finished designing your fabulous online course, personal blog, website, or advertisement… however you are missing one… The post Top 25 Best Free Stock Photo Sites for Stunning Images appeared first on Thinkific.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This post includes links on scenario-based learning (SBL) research, working with Twine, learning experience design (LXD), 360 images, VR resources, and elearning development time calculators. Learning Experience Design. Elements of Learning Experience Design | by Andre Plaut. 360 photos. Free 360 photos.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Free Vectors, Stock Photos & PSD Downloads | Freepik. Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels. Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels. Free stock photos, no attribution required. Atlas Icons.

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 27, 2018

Cropping an image is a powerful technique of visual design that you may be under utilizing. Here are ten ways you can crop photos for eLearning and presentations. It's more than just making a photograph fit your space.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

AUGUST 29, 2022

For this week’s post, I’m working out loud with a little show-and-tell project that lets you peek into my inclusive design thought processes. If you’ve been keeping up with this blog, you know that inclusive design is very important to me. The second inclusive design consideration I’ll mention is accessibility. Read to the end!

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BrightCarbon

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, we asked our designers and presentation experts what they expect 2023 to bring for presentation design. Improved accessibility came out on top, with 40% of our presentation designers naming it as a key area of development for presentations and presentation creation platforms in 2023. Is it new year, new you? Accessibility.

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Great photos help create fun and engaging training. We have recently put together packs of eLearning stock photos to help you design better training. The examples are a combination of PowerPoint course styles , Cut-Out People , and eLearning stock photos.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 20, 2014

Below is a collection of design resources that I have personally found useful as an e-Learning, web, and graphic designer. Learning Design elearning instructional design resource' Learning Design elearning instructional design resource'

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

My session: Streamlining Branching Scenario Planning and Design I gave my presentation first thing Wednesday morning. Photos from TechLearn I didn’t take as many photos at this conference (frankly, I forgot to get out my camera on the first full day).

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Don’t design training. Design super-targeted training. If still you end up designing training, it will probably be shorter and more targeted. In elearning we’re tempted to make up for the lack of human contact with an avalanche of irrelevant stock photos, narration, and flying bullet points. What do you think?

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eLearningArt

MAY 20, 2019

My top four tips for designing eLearning like a pro. I think watching the whole interview is great … but, if you’re short on time, scan the topics below and jump to the section that interests you most: How I got started in eLearning – I’m an accidental instructional designer, too. ( Photos vs illustrations.

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eLearningArt

APRIL 14, 2016

Sometimes you have an accessory or tool, such as a hat, that you’d like to add to a photo of a person. Maybe you have this great photo of Meg, but you’re using her in a safety scenario to train factory workers. I always do a first pass at designing everything in PowerPoint. It’s my go-to design tool. Don’t stress.

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Think Orion

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answer is website design. To make it easier for you, we’ve gathered the best website designs for schools to get inspiration for design elements. We will be exploring the following 8 website design for schools. 8 Best School Website Design Examples A school website requires time and effort—but it’s well worth it.

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 20, 2016

Photos are a powerful tool in e-learning. Unless you can afford custom photo shoots, you likely need to purchase stock photos. You may have heard some people talk about how much they hate stock photos in e-learning : they seem cheesy, they aren’t diverse enough, or they look like the subject is in a vacuum.

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Ashley Chiasson

APRIL 24, 2017

100+ Free Stock Photos for Use in E-learning. Instructional Designers and E-Learning Developers are always looking for high-quality stock photos they can use use within their e-learning development. All of these photos have been carefully sought out by yours truly, and used within many personal projects.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 21, 2023

We already have the learning objectives and used them for designing the training, so let’s use them again here. Do we need clear learning objectives when we design training? Should we give those to learners with the same language we use for ourselves as designers? Objectives are designed to guide behavior.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

JUNE 27, 2022

Accessible design is a critical part of inclusion. Last week, TLDC hosted another stellar event—the Accessible and Inclusive Design Conference (AIDC). The conference focused on helping L&D professionals understand how to be more inclusive by designing for accessibility. Reading Time: 7 minutes. Updated: July 6, 2022.

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Matthew Guyan

APRIL 27, 2021

This is the first in a series of posts documenting how I’m applying a design thinking approach to a project I’m working on. Design thinking is a problem-solving methodology that focuses heavily on involving users of a solution in its design” (Boller and Fletcher, 2020). Why use a design thinking approach? The request.

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eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It’s the spooky season! Why not embrace this time of year and add some moody vibes to your eLearning?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 10, 2017

Earlier, I wrote about designing microlearning, but what I was really talking about was the design of spaced learning. So how should you design the type of microlearning I really feel is valuable? The design process, then, would be to identify the model guiding the performance (e.g. So what say you?

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In the past, I’ve created conversation-driven eLearning with video, animation, and photos. After the initial video, we used cutout still photos of the same actors. This required a custom photo shoot, but it was much cheaper than using video for the entire course. Photos or Illustrations.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Why would you work with personas when designing online or blended learning? Working with personas is not only useful for marketing professionals but also useful in a design process for learning trajectories. It also leads to the discussion whether we can actually design one course for Abdel and Hawa.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Top Free Resources Used by a Design Agency. One of the most frequent questions I get is about where to find good, free design assets. Stinson Design has assembled a great collection of high-quality options for photos, icons, fonts and more. ( Are Learner Personas a Useful Design Tool? It’s Not Your Fault.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 11, 2019

While you or your organisation might subscribe to one or several online image libraries such as Getty Images, iStock Photo or even Adobe’s own photo library, in this post I’d like to highlight three low-cost (or even free) photo resources that let you search for and access photos instantly. Unsplash ( [link] ).

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OpenSesame

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Perfect for beginners, this course will help you move away from automatic mode and take manual control to shoot beautiful photos! . This course, designed to help you use your camera to its full potential , covers many topic areas including exposure and focus, composing your shots, and ways to share your photos.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In this post we look at the mind-bending world of Morph and how to use it create stunning design effects in PowerPoint. Likewise, hidden away underneath the architectural photo on slide 2 is the building sketch, which moves down, out of its ‘shadow’ on the third slide, producing both a reveal and movement effect during the morph transition.

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eFront

OCTOBER 24, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. Morgue File An easy to use free photo site.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Making, creating, fixing and designing are all processes we need for education now and in the future. Photo by Vladimir Agafonkin on Flickr Photo finish by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Capytech

AUGUST 12, 2020

Essential E-Learning Design Best Practices You Should Know. Those things are important, of course, but you should never underestimate the importance of e-learning design. Without good e-learning design, your course will look unprofessional. E-Learning Design Best Practices. Ensure Consistency of Design.

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Web Courseworks

JANUARY 31, 2017

Here are 3 tips to design member engagement into your website: 1. With a mobile-first approach, your content is designed to fit on mobile screens first, and then work up to how it will look on large screens. Implement your mobile-first approach with responsive design, and you’re on track for great SEO in 2017.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 4, 2010

Amit Garg has posted a nice list of 22 essential books for beginning instructional designers. Which reminded me of an old post of mine from 2008: Essential Reading for Instructional Design. Photo credit: bookworm by Oo_Dee_oO. Tags: books instructional design. Lots of books to read, so get to work, you!

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Mike Taylor

MARCH 3, 2023

Learn more → Top People to Follow in Behavioral Design Behavioral design is a fascinating but complex field that involves various theories and concepts. However, to become a more effective behavioral designer, we must always be open to learning from the latest research and field experiences. link] Where’s Mike?

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Devlin Peck

AUGUST 5, 2022

Learn how to create a beautiful cover photo for your design projects.

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