Designing Successful E-Learning

Forget What You Know About Instructional Design And Do Something Interesting.

Much has been written about computer user interface design, but many of the established principles seem to elude instructional application designers who tend to violate proven guidelines with abandon. If this weren’t problematic enough, designing effective interfaces for learners actually introduce additional challenges and constraints.

This book, one of six in Michael Allen's Online Learning Library, will guide learners through these mine fields. Practical, and hands-on, it includes dozens of worked examples, tips, techniques and strategies with proven advice for the interface designer on topics that include: screen layout; screen inertia (keeping things put; helping learners focus); fonts, colors, and boxes; encoded messages (underlining, colors, grouping); animation (the good and the annoying); and, input gestures (when to use which).