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Avoid Cognitive Underload: Add Ambient Sounds to Elearning Scenarios

2008/03/18 By David

Can ambient sounds be used to enhance elearning scenarios without negatively impacting instructional integrity? There’s been some great conversation around the use of audio narration in elearning. Both Tom Kuhlmann and Cathy Moore have offered up some excellent examples on the appropriateness of audio narration in courseware. But what about incorporating background sounds to create […]

Filed Under: E-learning Audio Tagged With: audio, elearning design, elearning designer, Flash, Flash Elearning, multimedia, Multimedia Learning, scenarios, sound effects

Captivate vs. Camtasia: Blend for Best of Both Worlds

2008/03/06 By David

The latest versions of Captivate and Camtasia confirm the screencasting & video tutorial industry is quickly evolving. As someone who’s created web-based video tutorials for almost ten years, I’ve tried just about every screen recorder developed. I still remember recording with HyperCam back in 1998. Trying to capture anything larger than 640×480 required a high […]

Filed Under: Screencasting Tagged With: authoring, Camtasia, camtasia vs captivate, Captivate, captivate vs camtasia, elearning, Flash, screencast, Screencasting, Simulation, Tools

Interactive Multimedia Bag of Tricks – USATODAY

2008/02/28 By David

From Multimedia Shooter, we find USA TODAY’s Interactive Bag of Tricks. Included are multimedia storytelling options with published examples and a PDF job aid to hang by your desk. The examples are classic interactive storytelling components that any designer should be familiar with. What caught my attention was the last bullet in Data-driven graphics: “Experience […]

Filed Under: Multimedia Learning Tagged With: e-learning, Interactive Design, interactive graphics, multimedia storytelling

Creative Elearning via Email

2008/02/27 By David

Lately I’ve been working on identifying some alternative and cost-effective ways for delivering training. It’s an important area of focus for my group right now. So tonight, while reading through some white papers, elearning blogs, books and forums, I received a joke via email. As someone who loves (and welcomes) interruptions, I opened and read […]

Filed Under: Creative E-learning Tagged With: design, elearning, informal, learning, questions, types

Harper Collins, iTunes and Learner Control in Elearning

2008/02/25 By David

Kudos to Harper Collins for recently embracing the iTunes model and beginning to offer consumers the option to purchase individual chapters of books (Wall Street Journal). As someone who purchases too many education and technology books every year, I’m anxious for other publishers to begin adopting similar models. I rarely read a tech book cover […]

Filed Under: Multimedia Learning Tagged With: Books, Control, elearning, learning control

Made to Stick – Going the Extra Step in Elearning Design

2008/02/13 By David

One of the more meaningful books I read last year was Made To Stick. If you’re a learning professional, you need to read this book. There are many great examples on how to make ideas (read: training) “sticky”. In particular, the Beyond War scenario: Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. They will, and […]

Filed Under: Creative E-learning, Featured Tagged With: Books, creativity, design, elearning, Flash, Flash Elearning

Powers of Ten, Multimedia Communication and Flash Components

2008/02/12 By David

Just listened to last week’s podcast of Science Friday. Ira interviewed a guest who specializes in “big numbers” and who talked about how one goes about communicating such indescribable values. Just as I was about to shout “Eames video” at my iTunes, a caller referenced the famous Powers of Ten short film. The Powers of […]

Filed Under: Creative E-learning Tagged With: elearning, examples, Flash, Flash Elearning, learning

Multimedia Learning

2008/02/07 By David

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