Whetherit’s the element of surprise, the aesthetic quality of visuals, a good story,or some other feature, if you’re going to engage your learners, it takes goingbeyond the learning objectives to do the job. Here are five ways to go theextra mile to capture and keep focused minds.
LearningExchange:Touch-based Interactivity Design. Christopher Allen. Interactive app. Examine whatconstitutes good mobile design with a mobile performance support app containingan instructional designer’s checklist of 10 crucial components for creatinghigh-quality touch interactions.
LearningExchange:Visual Surprise and Special Effects in PowerPoint. Davie Anderson. Video (00:4:59). You may not beaware of the capabilities of PowerPoint for creating special effects, but thisvideo will get you started.
LearningExchange:Design Bites – Image Quality. Bianca Woods. Video (00:03:08). Did you ever wonder how to tell if apicture you want to use in a design is great or not? In this episode Biancashares a few ways an image can be low quality (and tips for what images to useinstead).
LearningExchange:Pump Up the Dopamine: Seven Strategies to Improve Retention. Ken Murray. Video (00:01:37). Better learning leadsto better outcomes. But what does “better learning” look like? How can we primeour learners for success? In this video, we look at seven simple strategies thatcan increase engagement and improve retention. You may recognize the sevenscientific strategies that have been borrowed from the gaming industry! Go-gogame mechanics! Hooray for gamification!
ConferenceArchive:Visual Storytelling Using Mobile Devices.Brian Melven. Video (00:49:09). Explorevisual storytelling techniques and the formats that are well suited for mobiledelivery. You will learn how you can develop content such as infographics,whiteboard animations, motion graphics, and comics to explain processes andtell your story visually. You will leave this session understanding thedifferent formats that you can use for visual storytelling and the types oftools used to produce them.
