Week 11 – Class In Review (21/05)
Worked through the activity guide 3 where most of the lesson focused on multimedia principles when developing e-learning courses. The teacher went through a flash-based game, which was to teach learners how to develop negotiation skills. The course itself was very appealing as a learning tool because it contains a narrative (story) and allows users to interact with the story (there was always more than one choice/outcome). A game like this would’ve taken alot of time into the development of the story line and how it would relate to the learning objectives (although these weren’t clearly stated).
To sum up that whole module and some of the information in it, the layout and use of certain multimedia in e-learning courses can either be really suitable for it or developed poorly. Sometimes, the creator of these e-learning courses mightn’t incorporate good layout principles, such as spacing between graphics and text, using too many distracting/contrasting colours, etc. Hence, it’s good practice to really consider the type of learners you might be catering to before developing an e-learning course and especially pay attention to the finer details of good multimedia principles.
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