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    10 Enlightening Pearls of Wisdom for eLearning Professionals [SlideShare]

    It’s easy to create eLearning content. But to create an eLearning course that resonates with your learners? That’s not easy. It’s a difficult job for eLearning professionals to master but it’s worth it. Why? Because it’s the only kind of content that keeps people reading, from start to finish. It’s the only kind that elevates your learning program from ordinary to monumental.

    That's why we've collected some great experts and industry thoughts on how to create more effective and truly memorable eLearning courses. We hope it gives you a breath of fresh air before starting you next project.

    1)  “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” ― John Holt (Tweet this quote)

    2) "The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. Humans adapt incredibly quickly to consistent patterns.” ― Chip Heath, Made to Stick (Tweet this quote)

    3) “Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.” ― Sandra Dodd (Tweet this quote)

    4) “Design with forgetting in mind. If some information is really important, don’t rely on people to remember it. Provide it for them in your design, or have a way for them to easily look it up.”  ― Susan Weinshenk (Tweet this quote)

    5) “Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.” ― John Holt (Tweet this quote)

    6) “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Tweet this quote)

    7)  “Learning is more effective when it is active rather than a passive process.”—Kurt Lewin (Tweet this quote)

    8) “The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.”  —John Media, Brain Rules (Tweet this quote)

    9) “Practice design, Not Decoration: Don’t just make pretty talking point. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.” — Nancy Duarte (Tweet this quote)

    10) “Clutter is a failure of design, not an attribute of information.” Edward Tufte (Tweet this quote)

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