eLearning Industry

AUGUST 6, 2024

Discover top tips and tricks on how best to use one's voice to impact the cognitive retention of the listener positively. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. The science of sound is a wonderful thing.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction Who deserves access to your eLearning courses? Most often, it’s that we’re not sure how to develop accessible eLearning without compromising effective instructional design. Everyone, right? It’s kind of a no-brainer. Or we think it will be too much trouble or cost too much.

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. . Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide to accessible elearning: What Is Accessible Elearning, Anyway?

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It also involves designing content with clear language, readable fonts, and color-contrast settings to improve accessibility for those with cognitive differences. This can also mean including diverse voices in training sessionsinviting guest speakers from different backgrounds or sharing stories that highlight varied experiences.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Cognitive Accessibility Guidance identifies eight objectives to reduce barriers for people with cognitive, intellectual, and learning disabilities, as well as neurodivergent (or neurologically different) individuals. Cognitive Accessibility Guidance The Cognitive Accessibility Guidance is organized under eight objectives.

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. . Here’s what we’ll cover in this accessible elearning guide: What Is Accessible Elearning, Anyway?

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Welcome to the A-Z of Digital Learning, your comprehensive glossary of learning and eLearning terminology. Alternative text describing the content of an image on a website or in an eLearning course. Equipment, software, or a device which enables learners with disabilities to access eLearning and other content. C Cognitive Load.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

You could have flashy animation and professional voice actors, but this probably isn’t the best setup for a training. We also know that if a simulation provides the same cognitive activities as the real-life situation, the skills are transferable to the actual in-the-field situation. Use relevant context for stories.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Every single time I write a voice over script, I aim for that conversational tone. In addition to writing, you can use research to inform your elearning development. If people don’t need to spend much cognitive effort figuring out HOW to access and navigate training, they can expend more effort toward actual learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

Session 602 Set the Stage: Make eLearning Relevant and Authentic with Scenarios. In this session, you’ll learn how to create relevant and authentic scenarios to enhance your eLearning and improve performance. You’ll leave this session with an approach to weaving different aspects of scenarios together to bring your eLearning to life.

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LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

From Agile to xAPI and everything in between, there are a lot of eLearning terms to get your head around. Terminology can feel like buzzwords and jargon to the amateur but many are essential knowledge for the eLearning professional. That’s why we’ve compiled this eLearning glossary. Accessibility. Authoring Tool.

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Origin Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2014

When objects, arrows or human figures in your animation move about, a human voice that explains what’s happening allows learners to follow much better. Animations loaded with too much information or too much simultaneous movement will lead to cognitive overload and therefore lose the interest of learners. Do not overload.

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Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Where Did Germane Cognitive Load Go? Greg Ashman looks at the “fatal flaws” of cognitive load theory. The first problem with germane cognitive load is a philosophical one. Dig into to this one to learn more and see what he has to say about cognitive load theory. Creating Better Video for Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 2, 2024

When should you include voice-over in elearning? This is an update of a post originally based on a discussion from several years ago on eLearning Heroes. However, it’s also tiring to listen to a voice. Writing voice over scripts One aspect of narration that is often overlooked is writing good voice over scripts.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

When should elearning be narrated? When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established. Where are the complex graphics in our elearning?

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

When should elearning be narrated? When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established. Where are the complex graphics in our elearning?

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ProProfs

JANUARY 6, 2022

Corporate eLearning has grown by an impressive 900% in the last 16 years. The global eLearning market is projected to reach $325 billion by 2025. These numbers indicate only one thing – the eLearning industry is only gaining ground with time. As a matter of fact, adopting eLearning software is inevitable for businesses.

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Hurix Digital

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Previous eLearning Experience? While this may not seem like a key factor of consideration, it can still help you determine and segregate learning objectives on the basis of how many of the people from your audience have prior experience with elearning. Related: 9 Reasons for the Growth of eLearning in Education.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

and transform it to one of the AI voices. She spoke about cognitive biases and ways to counteract them or use them to your advantage. I had tested that out last year and was fairly happy with the results, but they’ve been advancements since then. I could use that for characters in scenarios sometimes.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Here are three interesting research abstracts about using avatars or pedagogical agents (fancy word for characters) in elearning. In Experiment 2 the embodiment effect was found when the agent spoke in a human voice but not in a machine voice. Abstract One. Schroeder, N. Adesope, O. O., & Gilbert, R.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 10, 2015

This is the fourth post in a series of six that covers Deeper eLearning. It is particularly focused on eLearning, but almost all of what is mentioned also applies to face-to-face or virtual instruction. Here are links to all six parts of the “Deeper eLearning Design” series: 1. Written by Clark Quinn.

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HexaLearn

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the new world of learning with technology, providing accessibility in eLearning not only comes as a compliance mandate but also as a moral obligation. Why Accessibility Matters In eLearning Inclusive content design provides equal opportunities for all sorts of students irrespective of their physical, cognitive, or technological capacities.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 12, 2011

eLearning and the Science of Instruction (Ruth Colvin Clark, Richard E. Ways to Personalize eLearning. As eLearning designers have learned over the years that learners want to feel connected to the training. Voice Quality. People learn better if narration is a human voice rather than sounding like a computer.

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2023

A Guest Post by ReadSpeaker The Internet of Voice has arrived, and it’s changing the way we interact with our devices. But TTS isn’t just for fancy new voice computing applications. Then we’ll discuss a few ways businesses can leverage voice technology to achieve mission-critical goals. In 2021, nearly a quarter of U.S.

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IT Training Department Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

To hear or not to hear (your eLearning), that is the question. With the rise of, well, Rise courses (and similar) there has been a decrease in narration for eLearning also. There are definitely pros and cons of having an eLearning voice over vs just letting people read it themselves. But is that a good thing?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. The list focuses primarily on the use of eLearning, technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. It covers events from four continents.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In a discussion on eLearning Heroes , Judith Reymond asked about the research on when or whether audio narration is helpful to adult learners. In Clark and Mayer’s eLearning and the Science of Instruction , they say that the research generally supports using narration with on-screen visuals.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2024

Online Discussions: When someone asks a good question online on LinkedIn, reddit, eLearning Heroes, etc., Instructional design careers Branching scenario start to finish Voice over scripts Plan ahead with a blog post idea schedule Since 2015, I have worked from a blog post schedule. that’s another source of inspiration.

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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As busy eLearning developers, we all like efficiency, right? According to Connie Malamed, the eLearning Coach, “Icons embody a quality that cognitive theorists call computational efficiency , meaning they minimize the processing required for an accurate interpretation.” Introducing the new eLearning Brothers Icon Library!

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 30, 2017

I had a great experience at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference last week. My own session on Avoiding Voice Over Script Pitfalls went very well. We even had a voice over artist and an editor attending, which was perfect for my session. That’s a challenge we face creating elearning.

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Another reason why company leaders choose to offer their employees online learning is because online learning, or eLearning, is easy to engage with. Using tools like VoiceThread, which allow you to have asynchronous voice and video conversations with learners.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

Even though technological innovation occurs at rapid speed and new learning theories emerge from cognitive research, large and entrenched training organizations move like slow dinosaurs. 3 Wonderful Resources For eLearning. Here are some thoughts and ideas about the future of work. 4 Big Ideas That Will Change The World Of Training.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

According to the cognitive theory of learning, people have separate information processing channels for visual/pictorial processing (sometimes called Imagens) and for auditory/verbal processing (logogens). And research show that is not the best for learning. Here are some reasons why.

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CourseArc

APRIL 18, 2024

Best Practice Before After Avoid Complex/Jargon Filled Language The institution leverages a comprehensive cognitive training model with an emphasis on advanced problem-solving techniques, optimizing individual learning trajectories while fostering robust cognitive restructuring. You must enroll in the course by Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

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SHIFT eLearning

APRIL 1, 2014

Although often neglected when hiring an eLearning developer, the ability to write well is an important skill. Use these six secrets of professional writers to make your eLearning content stand out and engage and interest the learner. Effective eLearning courses are simple and intuitive. Keep sentences short. Omit needless words.

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LearnDash

MARCH 5, 2019

Students with special needs constitute a wide range of individuals, from those with physical handicaps to cognitive or developmental impairments. Furthermore, disabled learners may rely on assistive technology to complete assignments, such as voice controls, refreshable braille readers, or sip and puff systems.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The classic cognitive chunk of recall 7 +/- 2 tidbits of information. 80% of adults have weak to poor meta-cognitive skills (Maggie Martinez research) – some people 20% see life analytically. The learner learns that they can go in and out and jump right to the elearning if they know they need more information.

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