Have you ever opened an e-learning course and immediately felt overwhelmed? When there’s too much information on each slide, the learner ends up spending more time trying to figure out where ...
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Great reminder of what to strive for. Many times my challenge is convincing the business owner and other stakeholders to preserve the whitespace and not to see it as fresh territory to "cram more in".
- Agree with you David. Using white space to keep instructional materials appealing to learners is a very important element of instructional design. But again, convincing the business owner is the biggest challenge. Few years ago, I had a supervisor, who used to worry about the wasting real estate. He would refer the white space as "real estate" and would clutter each page with as much texts as possible. We found out later that he was from IT background and was used to writing codes. Convincing the boss that writing programming codes and developing instructional materials are two different things was another challenge. - Enjoyed reading the article.
