Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

The visual design of your eLearning course should help learners understand and retain the content, as well as minimize confusion. Nowadays, with all the relatively easy-to-use graphic design and eLearning authoring tools, all of us who don’t have a degree in design can create good-looking courses. Of course, if you want to create more complicated things, such as custom illustrations, custom animated videos, custom characters, etc., you need more in-depth knowledge and skills.

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What is the first thing you do when you start designing a new eLearning course? What makes you feel like the course you designed is the best for your learners? Is it the easy navigation or is it the compelling graphics that accompany your texts? In other words, what is more important for you: The Instructional Design, or the Visual Design?

Everyone is born creative. If you don’t think so, just recall how you were as a child.

You probably did crazy things like draw hairy, six-armed monsters, make up stories of being a mighty warrior or try to build an amazing contraption that would fly you to the moon and back.

Then you grew up, and like the rest of us, learned to suppress your wildest thoughts and most ambitious dreams.

Your presentation slides have the right to remain silent – whether for eLearning or f2f sessions – anything they depict may be used against you in this blog.

This is for your learner’s protection!

Can we agree session presenters could use some help designing their slides?

If visuals aren’t an essential part of your eLearning strategy, they should be. Visuals are a powerful learning tool. They make your content not only more engaging but also more effective.

The higher education landscape is shifting and institutions are facing a decline in overall enrollment. Rather than opting for a traditional classroom experience, students today have come to expect greater flexibility in deciding when, where and how to learn. In fact, it is predicted that by 2019 at least 50 percent of all classes will be delivered online and that percentage will only continue to increase. To adjust to student expectations and keep enrollment up, higher education institutions must offer online courses or blended classrooms to compete with other colleges that already have those options.