The Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities (WANAU) will be holding a Web Accessibility Forum this October, with speakers from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Vision Australia and others.Registration is free.Find out more at the WANAU website.When: 18th OctoberWhere: Sydney (Australian Catholic University, North Sydney campus)
Tuesday, 4 October 2005
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Call for papers: Audio-visual communication
Posted on 21:59 by Unknown
Prism, a free-access, fully-refereed academic journal on public relations and communications will be publishing a special issue on visual communication. This could be a handy spot for publishing any initial research, thoughts, discoveries or case studies in the area of audio-visual design for e-learning. According to the specs, possible topics include: What new research approaches can be
Tuesday, 6 September 2005
Mayer's Principles for the design of Multimedia Learning
Posted on 19:55 by Unknown
The following is a summary of the information, principles and research findings presented by Richard E. Mayer on the 1 Sept 2005 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. For further information on Mayer's work, please see the references at the end of this article.
People learn better when multimedia messages are designed
in ways that are consistent with how the human mind
People learn better when multimedia messages are designed
in ways that are consistent with how the human mind
Tuesday, 16 August 2005
Richard Mayer in Sydney!
Posted on 22:05 by Unknown
Exciting news for elearning designers in Sydney. Multimedia learning guru (and I don't use that over-used epithet lightly), Richard E. Mayer will be giving two seminars at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Dr. Mayer has published a wealth of research-based koweldge on multimedia learning (such as his key work for designers: Multimedia Learning). Mayer's is exactly the kind of work that is
Thursday, 11 August 2005
Principles of interaction design
Posted on 22:32 by Unknown
Interaction design is one of the primary duties of any elearning designer. The design of interactivity is often shared by the instructional designer, who thinks up and describes interaction types, and the visual designer who brings them to life and adds to them. Either way, good interaction design is essential to good elearning, and is inextricably linked to the interface and multimedia
Thursday, 14 July 2005
Design elements in effective learning web-sites
Posted on 20:55 by Unknown
"Meaningful student learning may be dramatically enhanced as a result of vigilantly employing state-of-the-art design techniques, which reduce cognitive load. After examination of the current research in this area, recommendations are made for more innovative use of color, text, illustrations and multimedia when designing and building web-sites for online instruction." Article: The design
Monday, 4 July 2005
Design and usability - separation anxiety
Posted on 01:02 by Unknown
At what point was usability extracted from the design process and repackaged as something very different, or even oppositional? What we now call usability has always been an essential aspect of design itself. The difference between design and art, is that design serves an explicit function. A painting can be beautiful or evocative, can have abstract meanings and solicit different responses
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