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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. I’ve got it pinned to my bulletin board for quick reference when I forget which number is which. This doesn’t affect your price and helps to offset the cost of maintaining this blog.

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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. At the same time, a complete lack of reference images has a couple of significant drawbacks. put a placeholder shape where an image is supposed to go and write a short description on the shape like, “Stethoscope image”. Be used in a final course.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

If there is no alt text, the screen reader will simply say “IMAGE” with no frame of reference. Here are some helpful tips when writing your alt text: . Avoid the use of the term “image of” or “picture of”. Picture of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Picture of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ?

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Meet the team: Marketing

Rustici Software

In reality, they wrangle a large calendar of events (such as webinars and presentations ), balance strategic business initiatives with creativity (including adding an abundance of cmi5 “rocks” references during the xAPI Party) and encourage people to write blogs about their work (like Michael’s first blog ).

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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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Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners

Experiencing eLearning

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements: a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal , and the challenges the protagonist faces. That helps them picture themselves making the same kinds of decisions. Will’s recommendations from his research are also summarized on his blog.

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eCombat: Lessons from the Interactive Battlefields of Afghanistan

Vignettes Learning

In this blog, we will attempt to draw out interactive elearning development lessons by benchmarking Vanguard of Valor. _ Of this, Ackerman writes, “It’s the first immersive, interactive Army e-book, replacing the simple PDF-style scans with dynamic animations of the warzone.

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