There's a good chance that text is the bulk of your online learning content. Since the text is the biggest player in most eLearning courses, it’s essential to present it in the best way possible to optimize the instructional design. Here are 5 Tips to edit and present textual content for your online courses! 1. Line Length The optimal line length should be around 60 characters for the best reading experience. Too short, and the reader must constantly scan back and forth quickly, which can be quite frustrating and cause eye strain in bigger chunks of content. Too long, and you risk losing the reader's focus as they try to digest a lengthy string of text. Of course, you don't have to do a character count on each line, but be aware of this guideline to get a feel for what 60 characters of text actually look like when you preview your content. You can play with margins, text boxes, and design elements to shorten/lengthen this. 2. Paragraphs Justified blocks of … [Read more...] about 5 Tips on Editing Text for Instructional Design