Educational Apps connect learners with scientists

Educational apps can connect students with science and scientists with students in remarkable new ways.




Take Project Noah with its stunning interface and jaw-droppingly beautiful photos taken by volunteer nature spotters across the globe. This web community gives learners of all ages a unique  networked learning opportunity: Learn about animals and plants while you contribute to scientific

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EdTech for kids - the tablet explosion

The LeapFrog LeapPad 2

 Apparently IT parents had to wrestle for their iPads one too many times, because the world is suddenly a fireworks display of tablets and digital devices for children, customized to be safer, cheaper and more educational than the parent version.  New learning devices open up opportunities for new learning apps and interfaces, and thus more exciting work for elearning

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UX and UI for eLearning - Presentations online

The eLearning Guild recently hosted an online forum on Graphic design and UX/UI design for eLearning.  One of the highlights for me was the talk by Erin Sappington Kreb and John-Carlos Lozano of SweetRush.  Their slides were impeccable and their advice well communicated.

In a later session I presented a series of research-based guidelines for eLearning interfaces to a dynamic audience of

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Connie Malamed - Visual Design and eLearning

If you don't know her work already, Connie Malamed, author of Visual Language for Designers combines expertise in both eLearning and Visual Design and as such, is a great source of knowledge for the eLearning Interface Designer.

Check out her high quality articles at E-learning Coach, some of which relate specifically to eLearning Interface Design.  For example...

Using graphics to improve

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UX Personas as an antidote to the three Ps

Shake hands with the three P's:  politics, personalities and prejudices.  You'll be doing a lot of work with these guys, and as a UX designer, you may be the only one equipped to get around them with technique rather than tyranny.



Case study - A web publishing process 



Challenge:  Redesign an internal process for a team of 40 users who know each other, too well.  That means stakeholders

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Learning programming languages online

Guest writer Jennifer Jenkins of onlineuniversity.net looks at the role of online learning to increase access to computer science education....


Could online university classes solve the programming gap?
by guest writer Jennifer Jenkins
Despite the rising number of people who utilize computers during their workdays, the number of individuals who study advanced computer science has remained

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UX for Learning - Design guidelines

UX for Learning - Design guidelines for the Learner Experience was just published in the online professional publication UX Matters. In the article I elaborate on a list of practical guidelines drawn from multimedia learning research.  Check it out.

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