This August, the ELearning Guild will focus one of their Online Forums on visual design for learning. Graphic Design, UI Design and Visualization for eLearning will be held this August 23-24th and attendance is virtual (via Adobe Connect) so come as you are. I have been invited to speak at the forum and will present: "Guidelines for Effective learning Interfaces". More information is
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Online Forum on Visual Design for Learning!
Posted on 17:45 by Unknown
This August, the ELearning Guild will focus one of their Online Forums on visual design for learning. Graphic Design, UI Design and Visualization for eLearning will be held this August 23-24th and attendance is virtual (via Adobe Connect) so come as you are. I have been invited to speak at the forum and will present: "Guidelines for Effective learning Interfaces". More information is
The Future of Learning Interfaces
Posted on 17:30 by Unknown
Future learning interfaces (including multi-touch tables, motion-sensitive interfaces, and physical and tangible computing) represent just one of the topics to be addressed at this year's International Conference of the Learning Sciences (to be held downunder for the first time).
How to design for future learning interfaces will be addressed in the Pre-Conference Workshop: "Digital Ecosystems
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Seminar on Visualization for Science Education
Posted on 20:19 by Unknown
Heads up on the following seminar on how visualizations can be leveraged for science learning...
Making Sense of Science through Visualization will be presented by Roy Tasker on 20 April 2012, 11-12pm at The University of Sydney.
A deep understanding of chemistry requires the ability to imagine the invisible molecular world to explain the observable world. Only then do abstract chemical
Making Sense of Science through Visualization will be presented by Roy Tasker on 20 April 2012, 11-12pm at The University of Sydney.
A deep understanding of chemistry requires the ability to imagine the invisible molecular world to explain the observable world. Only then do abstract chemical
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Glamming up research
Posted on 15:34 by Unknown
The folks at web and print media at the University of Sydney have just done a fantastic job with a brilliant little interactive that makes the importance of research and research funding accessible, appealing and audience driven. It's a lovely example of infographics, crowd sourcing, and live stats in action. It's a model in web seduction that seeks to educate the public while shaping their
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Interaction Design in Ed Environments - Workshop
Posted on 20:53 by Unknown
I was delighted to hear of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - IDEE 2012 which will be held on the 28 June, 2012 in Poland. Note, this is an academic conference style workshop in which papers are presented (as opposed to a training workshop). Paper submission deadline is April 10.
I look forward to the resulting insights and publications!
Monday, 2 April 2012
The Multimedia Principle - A quick guide
Posted on 01:29 by Unknown
infographic by: Indi Samarajiva
The Multimedia Principle: When designing for learning, use words and graphics rather than words alone.
This little starlet of learning research is both well-established and deceptively simple. Introduced by multimedia learning guru, Richard E. Mayer, it's at the core of what we do, but it has some important caveats. it's a staple concept in instructional
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