As instructional designers create courses, they rarely have the luxury of working at their own pace, and incorporating the elements they feel are truly needed. The reality is that most of the time, instructional designers have to work around pressing deadlines, and under a tight budget. Yet, they are still expected to deliver quality courses. Regardless of the time, or monetary constraints, course designers should consider the following five elements: ISD methods and principles – As we all know, ADDIE is the most popular ISD model; however, many instructional designers prefer a more rapid approach, so they tend to use the RID model instead. Yet, there are other designers who use a combination of different models and approaches. When you select the model to use for designing a particular eLearning course, be sure to shape it around your learning objectives. Language – The language you use in your eLearning course is your key to success. The rule of a tomb is to avoid … [Read more...] about 5 Considerations for Designing Amazing ELearning Courses
Section 508 Compliance
Accessible ELearning – Developing Section 508 Compliant ELearning Courses
Accessibility is a central aspect of eLearning. What can eLearning designers do to ensure that their courses are accessible? Here are some recommendations: 1. Provide an equivalent text alternative to all information provided in visual format. This can be easily done by adding the alt text attribute to all images. 2. Make sure that the content offered in an interactive format is also available in accessible format. Obviously, learners with hearing and visual impairments cannot fully benefit from multimedia based eLearning courses. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a text transcript that describes the interactions and supplements the visual information. Another option is to create a Camtasia presentation for all the multimedia interactions. To learn more about using Camtasia for making e-Learning more compliant, read my blog post about Creating Section 508 Compliant E-Learning solutions (http://bit.ly/1hGrX4T) 3. Make sure that the information is well structured and … [Read more...] about Accessible ELearning – Developing Section 508 Compliant ELearning Courses