article thumbnail

Top 5 eLearning Skills for 2011

eLearning Weekly

Designing or developing elearning requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. These small groups of elearning designers and developers will have to do it all–manage the projects and handle graphics, video, narration and all the various software, including some sort of LMS.

article thumbnail

5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of. This was developed by a Flash programmer. 15 comments.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Magic of Microlearning

Association eLearning

Keeping the parts focused and “bite-sized” helps prevent overly dense content. Smaller file sizes. Takes less time to produce and approve individual parts. Content updates only require revisions for the affected parts, not the whole course.

article thumbnail

Reducing File Size for E-Learning Media

E-learning Uncovered

Let’s say you are developing a beautiful course on which you’ve spent a lot of time finding just the right images, audio, and video. Some of these photos had a file size of 10MB or higher. Imagine building an e-learning course with dozens of photos this size–the course size would cause all sorts of problems with the students.

article thumbnail

Cognitive Load vs. Load Time

eLearning Weekly

Influencing different neural systems means developing different events. Bottom line, the sheer size of the files was too much to handle. Cognitive psychology ran smack into the hard wall of file size. To develop multimedia elearning that succeeds, juggle image, sound and text without creating long load times.

article thumbnail

Instructional Design Questions? There’s an App for that! …You need to check it out.

Kapp Notes

My friend and colleague, Connie Malamed (aka The eLearning Coach ) has developed a handy iPhone application that will help you become a better instructional designer making tips, definitions and ideas available right at your finger tips. And SMEs might use the app to better serve course designers and developers.

article thumbnail

Flash to HTML5 – Swiffy From Google

Upside Learning

This also helps us poor elearning developers circumvent the continuous war between Adobe and Apple over flash technology, and allow delivery across devices/platforms. File sizes also seem to be very small; perhaps because of the plain text nature of HTML5. Incidentally, Adobe had worked on just such a tool called Wallaby.