Designing Effective Graphics For e-Learning Programs

Ray Jimenez, PhDUncategorized
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1. Designing Effective Graphics For e-Learning Programs
Many trainers and designers copy free canned graphics, and slap them into e-learning programs. It’s the easy way—but it rarely works. To make graphics function for you and help elearners grasp your points:
Think before you design
Clarify the ideas you want to burn in with your graphics. It is impossible to create an effectively communicative image based on a fuzzy concept.
Create images that illustrate your message and story
Without an exciting concept or engaging story, you cannot design an engaging image. So work on expressing your ideas through stories, events, characters, and situations. Then illustrate them with graphics. Unfortunately, too often e-learning programs are void of stories and are largely factual. Consequently, images are uninteresting.
Respect graphics professionals
Professional visual artists almost always produce better graphics than amateurs. Do it yourself, or on the cheap, and your images predictably will fall short of the impact they could add to your e-learning program.
Test effectiveness
Finally, how would you know if an image delivers the results? When the learner gets the idea by merely viewing the image without reading the content – then, and only then can you say that your image is effective.
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Ray Jimenez, PhD
Vignettes Learning
“Helping Learners Learn Their Way”