Multimedia Learning

Practical Ideas for Designing Better E-Learning by David Anderson

5-Point Makeover Process for PowerPoint and E-learning

2012/06/05 By David

The 5-Point Makeover Process I want to share with you the visual copy editing process I use when folks ask us to makeover their PowerPoint and e-learning slides. Most of the time users want us to just look at the slides or course, and give some feedback on ways to improve it. They’re not asking […]

Filed Under: Design Mapping, Featured, Visual Voice Tagged With: 5 point, elearning, graphics, makeovers, mapping, PowerPoint, redesign, visual copyediting, visual voice

Using Improv’s Principle of Agreement to Create Better Screencasts

2009/09/28 By David

Last week I was watching Screenr’s Public Stream when I noticed a common theme in the screencasts: They were all perfect. Now I don’t mean perfect in terms of audio quality, lesson structure, speaker preparedness or even content relevance. They certainly covered the range in those areas:-) By “perfect” I mean perfect in that they […]

Filed Under: Featured, Screencasting Tagged With: Articulate, elearning, improv, Screencasting, screenr

Flash CS4 for Elearning Production

2008/09/26 By David

Flash CS4 for Elearning Production One of the features my team is most excited about in Flash CS4 is the new object-based animation. This should significantly reduce a lot of basic elearning production times for tasks such as: Animated text and bullets; Simple image fades and transitions. Granted, Elearning is (should be) much more than […]

Filed Under: Flash Elearning Tagged With: CS4, elearning, Flash

Rapid Development: Campaign Social Networking Style

2008/08/23 By David

We all know how templates enable design teams and their customers to jump over much of the upfront drudgery and focus on the important part: the content. Should it then be any surprise that newsmakers would use such templates in their social networking efforts? Barack Obama’s group obviously wanted to maximize their Flickr juice by […]

Filed Under: Rapid E-learning Tagged With: elearning, Obama, rapid, Rapid Development, templates

Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

2008/04/13 By David

Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 Spent the weekend putting the final touches on my Elearning Guild sim for my Espresso Learning session this week on Second Life and virtual worlds. Espresso sessions are meant to be informal and conversational without slides or handouts, however, I always prefer to have some sort of live demonstration running […]

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: conference, elearning, Elearning Guild, Multimedia Learning, Second Life, simulations

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

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

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