Learning more about eLearning structure
Mar 16, 2016
Hi All, I'm fairly new to eLearning design and whilst I'm feeling really comfortable with using Storyline and it's functionality, I still feel like I need to build more on my design skills in terms of work out what to put on slides and how to break down large chunks of information.
Currently I receive Word and PowerPoint documents from SME's with the info in bulky dot points of text heavy paragraphs and I'd love some tips on firstly how to condense these into more palatable pieces of information and secondly how to turn these into appealing and interactive slides within a presentation. I guess my main problem is that I know 'how' to use the functionality I just don't know 'when', 'where' and 'what'.
So what I'm looking for is some good articles or guides I can use to help myself learn new tricks and techniques when it comes to converting information from boring text to interactive eLearning's.
Thanks!
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Here are two of my iron-clad rules:
1. De-clutter your slides. If you have more than 25 words on a slide, you don't have a slide; you have a document. Forget about wasting the user's time with a presentation. Print it and put it in their hand and let them read it at leisure. Never use complete sentences on a slide. On a slide, one word more powerful than 10, partly because of clutter, and partly because of reason two. Clutter also applies to graphics, and the way text points appear on the screen.
2. Don't put words on the slide the user can hear, either from a live or recorded narrator. The reason for this is that it takes more resources than we have to take in words through the audio and visual channels at the same time, EVEN IF the user reads at exactly the same pace as the narrator. The strongest learning (after teaching or doing) is a picture with words narrated to explain it. Every other option is weaker in terms of the learning that takes place.
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