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 thought I might pose the question to the community.
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We have just completed a large part of a project for a major client and we made the active decision to not include voiceover and they are very happy with the results, but other people seeing the content from outside that organisation have asked \"Where is the audio\" because that is what they are used to hearing in e-learning. No-one at all has said that the content would be enhanced with the use of voiceover (the content does utilise some video).
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Our argument is that the use of audio does not actually add anything to the content if you have just a verbatim voiceover reading the content on-screen, in fact we believe this to be a distraction and will encourage the user to switch off and just listen to it and do something else in tandem and subsequently tuning out entirely.
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Does anyone have any opinions? I would love to hear them. Also, I am really interested in some statistics and actual research into the use of audio with online learning. There must be something out there.
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 thought I might pose the question to the community.
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We have just completed a large part of a project for a major client and we made the active decision to not include voiceover and they are very happy with the results, but other people seeing the content from outside that organisation have asked \"Where is the audio\" because that is what they are used to hearing in e-learning. No-one at all has said that the content would be enhanced with the use of voiceover (the content does utilise some video).
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Our argument is that the use of audio does not actually add anything to the content if you have just a verbatim voiceover reading the content on-screen, in fact we believe this to be a distraction and will encourage the user to switch off and just listen to it and do something else in tandem and subsequently tuning out entirely.
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Does anyone have any opinions? I would love to hear them. Also, I am really interested in some statistics and actual research into the use of audio with online learning. There must be something out there.
Thanks for this discussion guys. Informative stuff.
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My question flips it a bit. Is there any requirement in multimedia theory to use written text or can I create something purely with voiceovers?
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I'm making something very relaxed showing how a new computer program works. To escape utter boredom, I was going to narrate the whole thing, with analogies, stories, even some funny Easter eggs etc. I was only going to use text if it was specifically related to the program being taught.
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Is there anything anyone knows of that says a 90% voiced training package, with only 10% text isn't the done thing?
Thanks for this discussion guys. Informative stuff.
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My question flips it a bit. Is there any requirement in multimedia theory to use written text or can I create something purely with voiceovers?
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I'm making something very relaxed showing how a new computer program works. To escape utter boredom, I was going to narrate the whole thing, with analogies, stories, even some funny Easter eggs etc. I was only going to use text if it was specifically related to the program being taught.
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Is there anything anyone knows of that says a 90% voiced training package, with only 10% text isn't the done thing?
