Epipheo: A Welcome Blast of eLearning Fresh Air
October 2, 2009
I love seeing creative ways of explaining new concepts, and a great example of this is Epipheo Studios‘ recent intro to Google Wave.
Simple, engaging, informative and entertaining: it’s a great example of eLearning done right. It’s nice to see folks like Epipheo and Common Craft hard at work creating un-sucky eLearning.
Alas, some might argue that this isn’t really eLearning at all, but simply marketing – an argument with which I would strongly disagree.
Have a look at some of their other work as well. Great, great stuff. I don’t know about you, but as a learner I’d find my yearly corporate eLearning courses on mandatory topics (ugh!) much easier to swallow if they showed even a glimmer of this kind of passion and creativity.
And note the casual (and familiar) narration style. This guy sounds like…well…someone you actually know rather than someone trying to sell you something on late night TV (”Call right now and get a bonus set ABSOLUTELY FREE!“)
Imagine how different the impact of this would be had it been done using bullet points and a typical eLearning narration style from a poorly-chosen voiceover pro (or worse – one of those abominable robovoices).
This is eQuixotic Hall of Fame material, no doubt. Nice work guys.
Posted in Narration, Presentations, Things I Love, eLearning Design, eLearning Hall of Fame
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October 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Agreed. Great work and it really changes my thinking about how I creat e-learning. I’d like to know what screencast software was used for the Epipheo Studios presentations.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
thanks man.
good write up, but i’m a little partial. you captured our vision though.
…or imagine what it would have been like if we had hired people who actually had good hand writing. (that’s my hand writing “my response is ALL CAPS”) =)
October 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I heard the epipheos were best made using Motion Graphic Software like Adobe After Effects, however after downloading the trial version of after effects, I can’t figure out how I would start creating one.