LINK: http://bit.ly/boLHVX
Last week’s eSeminar was unusual to say the least. We had a great crowd gathered and all went perfectly for the first 20 minutes until a sudden loss of audio made for what I’m sure must have been a frustrating hour for attendees. Thanks to some wonderful support from the Adobe Connect team we were able to identify, isolate and eradicate the problem with the audio service, and I then re-recorded the session. So the session is now smoothly recorded (in its entirety) and I have uploaded twin versions of the slide deck as has become my habit. The first one which you can find here, contains a downloadable PDF of the slides with the notes which mirror my audio presentation, in case you want to read as you listen, or would like to clarify some point from the notes. The second version of the slide deck is embedded below for your convenience.
Last week’s session focused on the modality principle. I discussed creating effective eLearning content, utilizing the Modality Principle, which indicates that communicating information through both the visual and aural channels simultaneously can improve learning. The session explained the overall concepts behind the modality (or split attention) principle and demonstrated how those concepts can be accomplished with particular focus on the following features in Adobe Captivate and Adobe eLearning Suite; Live Recording, Audio Editing, Text to Speech & Project Audio.
This was the second of a lengthy series which are designed to help explain why module design is the way it is in much of today’s eLearning design, and as we move forward into the many additional sessions that are related to this one, I’ll be demonstrating how those theories lead to end products with practical examples that stretch the ideas all the way out to individual tools and techniques.
Available On Demand:
Part 1:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules
LINK: http://bit.ly/aPCSxb
Part 2: Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: Balancing cognitive load in eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5
LINK: http://bit.ly/boLHVX
Upcoming:
Oct 27 – Applying Personalization to eLearning with Adobe Captivate 5
http://bit.ly/bkj7dP
November 10 – Creating effective eLearning :Multimedia Principle with Adobe Captivate 5
http://bit.ly/cvBovj
Want to do more reading? Here’s a brief list of recommended supplemental reading:
Clark & Mayer (2007.) eLearning: and the Science of Instruction http://amzn.to/chkPuw (Links to Amazon – but this book is pretty widely available.)
A short but clear overview of the history of learning theory.
Hello everybody,
If any of you are trying to review this part 2-Balancing cognitive load in eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5,
I have been experiencing much difficulty.
The first session however works perfectly, you can pause, restart, fast forward, and it works as expected.
Unfortunately, part 2 works untill 7minutes in, then the sound cuts out.
It almost worked when I ran part 1 simultaneously because it started working past 8min, so I put the volume to 0 for part 1 so that I could hear part 2 but then it cut out again….
The fact that I can simultaneously listen and view both parts tells me that my connection is excellent, so:
To those reviewing this part 2, a quick comment on whether it worked fully for you or not would really be appreciated.
Thank you!
Jennifer, I’d recommend using either Chrome or IE. I’ve seen people struggling with FF – i suspect it has something to do with the Java implementation, but i’m not really sure. I’ll pass the performance issue on to the Connect team. Can you just verify your OS and browser for me? – Allen
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Thank you very much for this wonderful & useful presentation.
Could you please provide us with pdf format of the first e-seminar of 13 Oct session.
Thanks again.
Noran, – sure. The PDF’s for the first session, along with the whole session on demand are all available here on the blog. Thanks for the kind words. Hope we’ll see you at this week’s session, which focuses on Personalization.
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