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    10 Inspiring SlideShare Presentations Every eLearning Professional Should See

    It's more than just creating attractive and interactive eLearning courses. It's about tapping into the experiences and emotions of your learners. It's about the images, the fonts and the words you carefully chose. About where and how you place content on the screen. About making it effective for your audience to absorb the most. About focusing less on how you can showcase your content, and more on how you can shape your audience's behavior. It's about all these things and so much more. That's why we've collected a list of inspirational and highly informative Slideshare presentations that will definitely help you turn create more emotional and engaging learning journeys. After seeing these insightful presentations you'll walk away with new ideas and new techniques.

    Picture Perfect: A Guide to Choosing Images for eLearning

    A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s trite but true. And when it comes to eLearning, picking images is a life-and-death decision. That’s because an image can single-handedly destroy your material or make it memorable.

    The Holy Trinity of Effective eLearning: Usability, Utility and Desirability

    Usability, along with utility and desirability, unlocks the key to effective eLearning courses. By following these three essential principles, course developers are able to create great learning experiences for learners of all types.

    Use These Four Tips to Evoke Emotion in Your eLearning Courses

    Learning isn’t merely cerebral. It’s emotional, too. Researchers, in fact, have confirmed how emotions affect mental processes. They finally found the missing piece of the learning puzzle and even encouraged instructional designers to include positive emotions as an important learning factor.

    5 Resources You Need to Create Better eLearning Courses [Free Download]

    Effective eLearning courses don't happen by magic. They come out of purposeful, thoughtful and learner-focused design.

    How People Learn: 8 Timeless Principles for Effective eLearning

    Effective learning doesn’t require expensive technology and elaborated training sessions. It doesn’t even demand the impossible from you, the course developer. But it does call for a change in mindset.

    Experience is Everything in eLearning: Don't Make Learners Think!

    Many learners take an eLearning course because they have to, not because they want to. This is the reality for most learners. Every course developer should acknowledge their need to get in and out of the course quickly—and consume the material with as little friction as possible. Still, even the most motivated learners get frustrated with crappy courses.

    What the Best eLearning Designers Do (And You Should Too)

    Design is more pervasive than you think it is. The moment you fire up your eLearning tool and make a slide, you face issues of design whether you like it or not. And if you explore them a bit and find ways to improve a design, you become a designer yourself. You may primarily be a student, an author or a corporate executive. But you can effectively design an eLearning screen too.

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