Anyone who has ever taken an eLearning course or watched a PowerPoint presentation (i.e. all of us) knows that the ... your own color theme for your eLearning course with the online tools, or choose from thousands of themes created (and rated) by design professionals. Best of all, it’s free. And Adobe TV even offers a short (and also free) how-to video for Kuler. Now there’s no excuse for offensive color combinations in your eLearning courses. Helpful hint: unless you’re designing a Christmas card, red + green = NO.

Personally, for eLearning development, I find more value in studying good presentation design than I do in studying good eLearning design. Why? Because there seem to be more folks out there sharing their knowledge about good presentation design than there are sharing good eLearning design. Which is slightly baffling to me, as we’ve all been exposed ... I strongly believe that good presentation design and understanding good eLearning design are two sides of the same ... also going on my blogroll), should be on the must-buy list of every eLearning developer. Too many eLearning developers ...

Recently I’ve been pushing our organization to focus on nurturing more in-house eLearning development skill versus frequently relying on outside vendors who give us mundane eLearning at outrageous prices. “We can do far ... dials? Seriously? And if eLearning development is such a menial, low-grade task, why are we paying vendors high-grade dollars to do eLearning development for us? Someone please explain the logic here. With this kind of attitude, it’s ... bunch of SMEs to hash out the course content is of more monetary worth than the eLearning developer who has to step ...

Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US.We've looked at a few eLearning vendors and haven't been thrilled. We found the three US vendors expensive and/or light on good ID and the India-based vendors (Tata and Brainvisa) are priced really well, but would require more extensive project, quality and ID management. So ... sure about it. They are fairly new to eLearning design and development.The other request is for providers of ...

Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US.We've looked at a few eLearning vendors and havenâ¬"t been thrilled. We found the three US vendors expensive and/or light on good ID and the India-based vendors (Tata and Brainvisa) are priced really well, but would require more extensive project, quality and ID management. So ... sure about it. They are fairly new to eLearning design and development.The other request is for providers of ...

... pricey world of eLearning development software, is practically free. Not to mention all the typical testing equipment (and ... ;anecdotal evidence.” Wish me luck. Mac-using eLearning developers, give Silverback a look. And non-Mac-using eLearning developers, what the heck are you waiting for? ... personal MacBook or iMac and do some eLearning usability testing on some of our customers using Silverback. I really need some “hard data” to provide management to support my arguments that our Articulate-developed stuff is ...

My job involves coaching and mentoring a great many instructional designers - both within our own eLearning development ... designers to get to the essence of a training challenge and cut out all extraneous content that detracts from the main ... excellent technique called "action mapping" that I will start using to help focus eLearning on intended outcomes based on desired actions. Cathy Moore, in her very informative blog (Ideas for Lively eLearning), lays out succinctly how action mapping can work in this slideshow: SlideShare"> | View | Upload your own Moore advocates an approach to eLearning ...

As eLearning developers, most of us are not graphic designers by trade or by training. Many of us have academic or ... hire a real graphic designer for our eLearning development team, how are we supposed to create visually compelling ... it helpful to browse this “digital scrapbook” of tasteful design whenever I’m starting a new eLearning ... across a refreshingly (or annoyingly) honest blog about eLearning design called, oh, say, eQuixotic. And say you are struck ... -challenged eLearning developer friends. There is no excuse for using ugly, amateurish fonts (Comic Sans, I’m ...

... blog on presentation design. I’m a great fan of his blog, so it should be no surprise I am also a great fan of his book. Since my profession is primarily in eLearning design - not sales, marketing, or classroom instruction - I found myself mentally replacing the words “presentation” and “PowerPoint” with “eLearning” ... hand: Presentation Zen (the book), by Garr Reynolds. Buy it. Read it. Apply it to your eLearning design. Please! ... I finally took the time (long overdue) to read Garr Reynolds’ excellent book on presentation design ...

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The debate rages among eLearning design professionals about the value of narration in eLearning. How much narration ... ;no duh” argument to many of you, but it’s exactly what our big-dollar eLearning development vendor often ... not have a Ph.D in eLearning Design, and I may not get paid $50,000 per delivered course hour, but I usually do know what ... hear a SME (or eLearning developer) breathing heavily into a $10 headset microphone patched through his budget-line ... learner to pay attention to it. Robo-voices should be ostracized by the eLearning development community. Ostracized ...

Tom Kuhlmann has an excellent post on the importance of visual design in eLearning (my personal driving philosophy and ... design - in fact, they are often its very antithesis. And I don’t agree that “rapid development” must ... Sasser, legendary Mac software developer and visual designer extraordinaire, gave Coca-Cola the nod for Best Packaging ... ) from your eLearning design while still achieving a visual appeal that will pull your learners in and hold them there until the end of your course. Once eLearning developers finally accept the fact that this not only can be done, but must ...

... eLearning Development Second Life and Learning Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearningShift in eLearning from ... eLearningView of eLearning Development Approaches - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and CompositionWhat is the Role of ... - Flash - WMV - Quicktime - Real eLearning DefinedROI and Metrics in eLearning eLearning Design - Posts about Designing eLearningSignificant Work Needed to Help Instructional Designers Is Your eLearning Broken?Pew Survey on Blogging - Training ... Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning PostsIt can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The ...