Online collaboration tools like email, chat, discussion forums, web conferencing, shared whiteboards and screen sharing can promote collaboration in effective and unique ways. But what are the pros and cons? When do online tools work better for collaboration and when don't they? William Horton provides some answers.In the context of putting together readings for a workshop on collaborative
Wednesday, 9 May 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Fluid Project - UX for elearning systems
Posted on 17:10 by Unknown
Why is it so many learning management systems seem to be stuck in the tar pits when it comes to the user experience? Let's hear it for the folks at the Fluid project who are attempting to tackle this mammoth problem.As any designer working with elearning software is keenly aware, as technically robust and feature-full a system may be, it always seems to be the interface design and usability that
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Screencast tutorials
Posted on 18:46 by Unknown
Since bandwidth availability has improved, the last few years have seen more videos and screencam/screencast tutorials on websites, for both marketing and training purposes. They're getting easier to make and deliver, with more sophisticated purpose built software, some of which is cheap or even free.
Tutorials featuring a video capture of screen activity, have been a stock elearning item in the
Tutorials featuring a video capture of screen activity, have been a stock elearning item in the
Thursday, 22 March 2007
50 Ways to experience the web - Designing for ALL possibilities
Posted on 17:01 by Unknown
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover and 100 ways to skin a cat, but what web designers are worried about these days is the perpetually increasing number of ways in which users might be viewing their sites...From computer ubergeeks to "12:00 Flashers" (every appliance in their house flashes 12:00*), users are coming at websites in a growing variety of ways. They may be using a screen reader
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom
Posted on 21:39 by Unknown
Understanding the difference between data, information, knowledge and even wisdom, and how a designer can participate in the transformation from one to the other, is a critical part of creating learning experiences.Allow me to coin a phrase (originally invented by my endocrinologist, Dr. John O'Dae) -- we're now living in a society characterized by data-rich ignorance. Have you ever spent hours
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Adobe Captivate - job opp
Posted on 17:38 by Unknown
Adobe Captivate (previously Macromedia) is a handy no-programming-required training development tool for creating subtitled/narrated tutorials, simulations and demonstrations. We've used it for simple, try-it-yourself software training tutorials and how-to's to help students use our LMS, CMS and wiki.Here's a contract job opportunity in Sydney for a developer with Captivate experience. This was
Monday, 5 March 2007
Design Essentials: HCI, User Experience and Usability
Posted on 20:19 by Unknown
HCI, User Expereince, User-centred Design, Usability, Information Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Accessibility and Univesral Design...it gets hard to know where one starts and the other ends. The usability of all this termenology is sorely lacking in good information design. There seems to be so much overlap, and redundancy and is there really difference among them? If so
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