"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
Thursday, 14 July 2005
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
Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Why visual design matters
Posted on 18:41 by Unknown
“The current mindset in many educational institutions is to rush to host poorly designed web-sites, which instead of enhancing the learning process, may, in fact, actually impede student learning” (see reference at bottom) It’s my own experience that, even today, too many people are ignorant of the real importance and impact of design on the effectiveness of elearning. There’s an archaic attitude
Sunday, 26 June 2005
Designer elearning makes a debut
Posted on 22:39 by Unknown
There's a percentage of digital designers out there gradually sliding into employment positions in which their design skills are set to tackle, not public websites or corporate intranets, but elearning environments. Learning programs, training applications, web-based classrooms, virtual learning environments and all the associated acronyms from LMS and CBT to (spare me the metadata) SCORM, IMS
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