Not Just a Pretty Interface: Visuals and Graphics that Enhance Learning Online | July 16 & 17, 2009

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Back when e-Learning was just text-on-a-page with only “next” and “back” buttons, the only choices you could make were the background color and the font to use. Today, whether you are using a rapid development tool or creating a high-level immersive learning simulation, the look and layout of your e-Learning can have as much or more impact on the learning as the content does.

In this Online Forum, you will discover different approaches to designing and developing the interface to your e-Learning. You’ll learn how the layout and graphics impact learning comprehension and retention. You will see the good, the bad, and the ugly of e-Learning interfaces... and what makes an interface great. You’ll discover a wide variety of topics and modalities, and the latest approaches for using effective graphics and interface design in your e-Learning. Take this opportunity NOW to focus on how you can improve the e-Learning in your organization, and...

• DISCOVER how the interface can impact your learning,
• LEARN how a wide variety of organizations –corporate, academic, and government – use media to build engagement into their e-Learning programs,
• EXAMINE how to design effective graphics and interfaces,
• EXPLORE the different tools and processes available for developing graphics and e-Learning interfaces, and
• ENSURE that your e-Learning meets both your learners’ and your organization’s goals.

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Opening General Session

• Visuals to Fast Forward Learning
  Bobbe Baggio, Advantage Learning Technologies, Inc./ LaSalle University

Concurrent Session Block 2

• 201 | Creating Compelling Graphics for e-Learning
  Benjamin Duffy, Fairchild Semiconductor
• 202 | Graphic Design Tricks for Non-graphic Designers: PowerPoint as a Graphics Tool
  Diane Elkins, Alcorn, Ward, & Partners, Inc.

Concurrent Session Block 3

• 301 | Does This Font Make My Course Look Phat or Flat?
  David Anderson, Bank of America 
• 302 | The Powerful Webcomic Approach – Learning from the Smithsonian
  Daniel Bliton, Booz Allen Hamilton and Robert Costello, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Concurrent Session Block 4

• 401 | Evidence-Based Graphics: Beyond Visual Fads and Fiction
  Ruth Clark, Clark Training & Consulting
• 402 | From Stockphoto to Custom Image with Photoshop
  Donna Safko, Mudpuddle Creations

Concurrent Session Block 5

• 501 | Build your Rapid e-Learning Graphics… Rapidly!
  Tom Kuhlmann, Articulate
• 502 | Graphic Symbols: The 5th Language
  Kevin Thorn, AutoZone, LLC.

Closing General Session

Friday, July 17 — 12:00n to 1:15p 

• Visualizing the Abstract: Principals for Creating Graphics that People Understand
  Connie Malamed, Connie Malamed Consulting

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