4/4/2023 
13 minutes
13 minutes 
12 PowerPoint Tips to Make Your Slides More Effective
The design of your PowerPoint presentation is often underestimated. Everyone knows the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words,”...
1/14/2023 15 minutes
15 minutes 
Online Course Design for eLearning – 6 Graphic Design Principles
Before we plunge into online course design, let’s imagine that we are at a zoo or a museum where there...
6/12/2022 14 minutes
14 minutes 9 eLearning Content Types and When to Design Them
Where to start? What type of end product is required? What is even feasible in the project’s time frame and...
3/28/2022 22 minutes
22 minutes 
Learning Goals and Objectives in Course Design – The Whats, Whys, and Hows
Have you ever sat through a training program or workshop and wondered, “What’s the point of this? Why am I...
10/20/2021 14 minutes
14 minutes 
The Interview with Dr. Luke Hobson: From Hating School to Becoming a Senior Instructional Designer
Dr. Luke Hobson is a senior instructional designer and program manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ironically, his...
8/13/2021 10 minutes
10 minutes Create Iconic eLearning with eLearning Icons
You have most likely heard the adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Still, a lot of presentations are...
11/19/2019 12 minutes
12 minutes 
Designing Accessible eLearning: ADA, Section 508, and WCAG
Wheelchair ramps might be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word “accessibility”. Since the...
8/28/2018 7 minutes
7 minutes 8 Online Training Tips To Develop Interesting Characters For Corporate Training
The thing that most people remember after they put down a good book is the cast of characters. They’re able...
12/22/2017 6 minutes
6 minutes Lesson 7. Practical Application: UI/UX Best Practices for e‑Learning
Michael Sheyahshe, an artist, author, developer, and technologist at alterNative Media, presents a whole series of 10 lessons on making...
6/25/2016 4 minutes
4 minutes Jane Bozarth’s Designing for Accessibility
In talking about material for learners who have visual impairments, I hear people use terms like “material is accessible to...
9/18/2015 3 minutes
3 minutes How to Use PowerPoint Triggers Effectively in Your E-Courses
If you are using PowerPoint to craft an e-Learning course, you should be using triggers throughout your entire presentation. The...
7/31/2015 5 minutes
5 minutes Why Successful E-Learning Programs Require Interactive Components
E-Learning is all the rage these days. You can’t turn around without seeing another blog post about the benefits of...
10/21/2014 3 minutes
3 minutes Using Educational Animations in E-Learning
Animated cartoons and moving images have captivated viewers’ imaginations ever since they were first invented. As one animation company writes...
1/10/2014 5 minutes
5 minutes Choosing the best color scheme for the presentation
This is a modest collection of treasured tips on how to combine colors properly and create a compelling palette for...
12/20/2007 2 minutes
2 minutes Background and text colors for your PowerPoint presentation
You view some presentations and apprehend all of the information. You view others and nothing is clear to you. Why?...