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Is using voiceover adding any value to e-learning?
I have just come off a conference call where we were discussing whether the use of voiceover in e-learning adds any actual value to your content. I cannot find any articles online about this and tho...
This is just anecdotal from when I was working in a corporation. Normally I'd prefer to read the e-learning course myself when the audio was a verbatim reading of the on-screen text.
But sometimes, during a particularly exhaustive and challenging day, and I was then taking some e-learning at the end of the day, I appreciated the fact if a course had the option of my hearing the course read to me. I'd often use it as "educational rest" until I was ready to read the course on my own at a faster pace. Sometimes it was the whole course, other times just a portion.
Also, for non-native speaking/reading learners, the option of hearing and seeing the text may help them better grasp the material.
For one of my clients, we always put the narration script in the Notes tab for learner access if they need it. I then use the screen to only highlight the critical/most important messages in the narration with text and images in a creative build.
