Showing posts with label visuals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visuals. Show all posts

Friday, April 03, 2009

Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark)

Donald Clark posted a link to a lovely little article by Ruth Clark: Give Your Training a Visual Boost in the April 09 edition of ASTD's T&D.

The article contains such gems as:

"Decorative visuals defeat learning."

and

"The least successful learning resulted from text and audio repetition of that text."

This would be a great article to forward to a client.  You know the one.  They want  audio narrating that long paragraph of text that they think should also appear on the screen in order to appeal to different learning styles...