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Three Reasons To Focus On Media Design In Learning

Upside Learning

We’ve always focused on instructional design being essential to the design of courseware. I see just three reasons why eLearning should focus some more on the media design. Media is Experience – It’s the experience that matters and media is what you’re using to build it.

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Digital Instructional Media Design 101- The Design Of Interaction

Upside Learning

I’d recommended that all IDs play the game for a few hours to understand how different ‘gamey’ elements are from the conventional ‘interaction’ we use in conventional courseware. Tags: Instructional Design Learning Design AOE Design Of Interaction Interaction Design Media Design In Learning.

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Digital Instructional Media Design 101- Basic Usability

Upside Learning

The courseware we design need to be logical, intuitive, and clear to the learners who take the course. Tags: Instructional Design Learning Design eLearning Media Design Media Design Usability. Taking that forward, this post specifically addresses the issue of ‘ Usability ’.

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Dynamic Language Translations for Storyline Projects

eLearning Brothers

What if I told you that you didn’t have to create multiple versions of your English courseware to serve your non-English speaking/reading learners? Ideal for Non-Player Courseware. For English, you will need the trigger to read as: Play Media / English_file_name.mp3 / When Timeline Starts / On the Condition language = 0.

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The Genericization Of Content

Upside Learning

This proliferation of devices is having a strange ‘dumbing-down’ effect on a lot of the eLearning courseware being created right now. Whatever happened to those interactive engaging pieces of courseware that made one go ‘cool, I like this’; not much of that to be seen. I am not sure this is the right way to go.

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NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

Wonderful Brain

During an interview about a week back I asked the project manager about the audience for which the training courseware would be designed. Incorporate social media seamlessly into their personal and professional lives. The strongest criteria, emphatically made, was the consultants ability to work out a curriculum for 24 to 70 year olds.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

What kinds of courseware can we offer on mobile devices? Our world has evolved into a just-in-time learning society. Mobile Learning People within the training industry have debated for quite some time how mobile devices will affect the delivery of training. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?