Comments on: Great eLearning and a Great Steak http://www.equixotic.com/2008/01/14/great-learning-and-a-great-steak/ A starry-eyed quest for beautiful eLearning and presentations. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:29:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cathy Moore http://www.equixotic.com/2008/01/14/great-learning-and-a-great-steak/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Cathy Moore Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:49:23 +0000 http://www.equixotic.com/2008/01/14/great-learning-and-a-great-steak/#comment-9 I agree that visual appeal is crucial and isn't given enough attention in elearning. We could take a lot of cues from journalism's interactive infographics, which are far more intuitive and appealing than many corporate attempts to communicate. We can also use graphics a lot more to present concepts. For example, in your last screen shot, the graphic actually communicates something important, while the course above it uses an image just as eye candy (great text in that course, by the way!). I agree that visual appeal is crucial and isn’t given enough attention in elearning. We could take a lot of cues from journalism’s interactive infographics, which are far more intuitive and appealing than many corporate attempts to communicate.

We can also use graphics a lot more to present concepts. For example, in your last screen shot, the graphic actually communicates something important, while the course above it uses an image just as eye candy (great text in that course, by the way!).

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