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04 Dec

4 Ideas for Combining Text and Images in eLearning

E-Learning Heroes Challenge #152 – Combining Text and Images in E-Learning. The brief: This week, your challenge is to share an example to demonstrate how text and images can be used in e-learning. For this challenge I shared four simple ideas that were all created within Storyline. Click the image below to see what I shared for the challenge: Slide 1: Text coming out of the image For the title page, I wanted the text to look like it was coming out of the skyline and to create this effect, there’s actually two of the same images placed exactly on...
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26 Nov

5 Books Every eLearning Professional Should Read

Posted by Matt Guyan | Instructional Design, My PLN |

Even though we live in a digital world I still love reading paper books. This post has been floating around with me for a while and the idea for it came from a post by Ryan Tracey called ‘5 papers every learning professional should read’. This post is pretty much the same but with books instead of papers. I’ve chosen each book because they’re easy to read (over a period of time rather than one sitting), they provide useful strategies that you can implement and they provide a great reference that I go back to. I’ve listed them here in no...
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30 Oct

eLearning for Everyone

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

The guiding principles around accessible eLearning come from what’s known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG (in the US the guidelines for accessibility are known as Section 508). Following these guidelines will make our content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities but they’ll also often make our content more usable to everyone in general which is really what we need to be thinking about. As I travel around the country delivering Storyline 2 training, I usually ask whether people are factoring in accessibility in their eLearning module design. From the responses I get, those working...
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16 Oct

Rules of Engagement

Posted by Matt Guyan | Instructional Design, Reflections |

In the eLearning space, a phrase that I see used a lot by designers and developers is their ability to ‘create engaging eLearning experiences’. But what does that really mean? Well, according to dictionary.com the word "engage" is defined as: “To occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons)” Sounds reasonable and definitely something we should be doing but if engaging eLearning is being created by so many, why is there still so much poor eLearning around? (Sidenote: I realise that an eLearning module isn’t always the solution to a performance problem so I’m coming from the instance...
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19 Sep

How I created a Custom Quiz-style Interaction in Storyline 2

Posted by Matt Guyan | Show Your Work, Storyline |

Recently a friend of mine contacted me as he had an idea for an interaction he wanted to create in Storyline 2 and needed some help with building it. He wanted the interaction to work like this: A question with five answer options. Two of the five answers were correct. Only a maximum of two answers could be selected. He also wanted a ‘submit’ button and once clicked, then he wanted: Feedback for each answer to be shown. An indication of which two answers were correct. To still see which two answers were originally selected. With a bit...
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