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Eye Appeal in eLearning Course Design: 3 Effective Ways to Use Color Theory, Typography, and Images

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The look and feel of your eLearning materials has an impact on training effectiveness. The combination of colors, font types, and images affect the way your learners go through your content and eventually the lessons. Your goal is to make your content more exciting, easier to understand, and more interesting to read. A good combination of the elements mentioned above can help you achieve your training goals. Conversely, a bad combination could make your learners bored, disinterested, and perhaps even sleepy. Needless to say, this will result in bad performance and ineffective learning.   Here are some important considerations when using color theory, typography, and images in your eLearning course design:   1. Keep it clean and simple. This does not mean that your design should be stark and boring. You can use bold colors like reds and oranges, and your design will still be clean and simple. Avoid the clutter and pay attention to readability and ease of … [Read more...] about Eye Appeal in eLearning Course Design: 3 Effective Ways to Use Color Theory, Typography, and Images

Filed Under: Graphic Design Tagged With: color theory, eLearning design, images, instructional design, SCORM compliant eLearning, typography

Have You Ever Wondered If Learning Styles Really Exist?

by Marina Leave a Comment

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The study of learning styles aims to understand the different ways that learners are able to take in and process new knowledge. It seeks to find the best practices to help a learner absorb, comprehend, and retain a piece of information. In recent years, many instructional designers have devoted their time to come up with different learning style theories that aim to ease new knowledge acquisition. However, one big question in the world of learning styles, particularly among skeptics, is: Do learning styles really exist?   The lack of reliable studies looking over the effectiveness of learning styles in the classrooms is one big issue that continues to plague it. In their study “Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning: A Systematic and Critical Review,” Coffield and his colleagues bemoaned that while there are several researches available, they all have “poor reliability, poor validity, and a negligible impact on teaching and learning.” The authors also raised concerns … [Read more...] about Have You Ever Wondered If Learning Styles Really Exist?

Filed Under: Instructional Design and ELearning Tagged With: auditory learners, eLearning design, instructional design techniques, kineshetic learners, Learning styles, visual learners

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