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23 Nov

Template Facelift

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Show Your Work, Storyline |

A few months ago I created a demo for ELH Challenge #18 which was called ‘Using Characters in eLearning’ (you can see a recap here). For this one I did a 'meet the team' style interaction that was based on something I’d seen a few years ago. The idea is that you have some people and some questions and you pick a person and a question you’d like to ask them, then their response is shown. You can try the demo by clicking on this image: I was happy with it originally and it works fine but I’ve felt for a while...
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19 Nov

Half-baked Ideas

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

This week is Work Out Loud or #WOLweek and the purpose is to be more open and share what you’re working on. So, in the spirit of the week I went to my notebook where I write down ideas and thoughts about what I see and read from the world around me. They’re raw, not fully formed and some not fully thought through (sometimes I was just venting) but they are things that at some stage I thought were important enough to write down. The idea is that they might become posts of their own eventually. Here they are in no...
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14 Nov

Designing Effective Multimedia Lessons for Learning

Posted by Matt Guyan | Instructional Design, Theory |

This blog post is a slightly altered essay that I recently submitted as part of my Master of Education (Educational Psychology) studies. The delivery of learning via the use of multimedia (also known as eLearning) continues to be a popular choice in workplaces around the world. In my current role as an Instructional Designer, I am involved in the design and development of eLearning courses for corporate clients with the aim of closing knowledge gaps in employees and ultimately improving their performance. The challenge for myself, and indeed all instructional designers, is how to best present information in such a...
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05 Nov

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 10/11/15

Posted by Matt Guyan | OzLearn |

On Tuesday 10th November at 8:00pm AEDST, @OzLearn is having its next monthly twitter chat. This month, our guest is Ajay Pangarker (@AjayPangarkar) and we'll be talking about evaluating learning. In preparation for the chat, you can read a post by Ajay here (there's a short video too). To join the chat, go to Twitter at 8pm on 10/11, search for @OzLearn and join in the conversation (don’t forget to add #ozlearn to your tweets). There is also an OzLearn LinkedIn group where you can view the Storify of the chat afterwards. Hope you can join us for the chat!
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18 Oct

Pushing My Buttons

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, My Portfolio, Show Your Work, Storyline |

Often when we talk about our work, we talk in terms of ‘what’ we did. The Showing My Work series of posts aim to also capture the ‘how’ something was done. E-Learning Heroes Challenge #89 - Creative Button Styles and Effects. The brief: This week, your challenge is to have fun with buttons! Play with different shapes, styles, and effects to show how you can use buttons creatively in e-learning. Be sure to include the Normal, Hover, and Selected states in your work. In this challenge from a few months ago, we had to design some buttons. I came a...
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