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PowerPoint to e-Learning:
It's about Design,
Not Software

Jane Bozarth, State of North Carolina

June 14 & 15, 2007

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Effective Techniques for Turning

PPT or ILT into e-Learning

Effective Techniques for Turning

PPT or ILT into e-Learning
June 14 & 15, 2007

PowerPoint to e-Learning: It's about

Design, Not Software

Jane Bozarth
ELearning Guild Online Forum
June 14, 2007
Session OLF607101

Jane Bozarth
E-Learning Coordinator, NC Office
of State Personnel/HRD Group
Author: E-Learning Solutions on a
Shoestring: Help for the
Chronically Underfunded Trainer
(Pfeiffer, 2005)
Better than Bullet Points:
Creating Engaging E-Learning
with PowerPoint (Coming
Christmas 2007: Pfeiffer)

www.bozarthzone.com

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How BAD can e-learning be?

(Examples)

How Bad Can E-Learning Be?

Just as bad as bad classroom training can!

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June 14 & 15, 2007

Better than Bullet Points:

1. Develop a treatment
2. Apply Mayers SOI model
3. Choose
graphics with soul,
interactions with meaning,
& animations that teach

Think TRANSFORM, not convert

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www.hungerbanquet.org
www.rvc.ac.uk/Review/Pitfalls/pitfalls.htm
www.hrtrain.com

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Herrmann chart

Separate
Handout

Writers Block?
Idea kickstarters
Your topics? Your ideas?
Lets try one

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2. Apply Mayers SOI Model

Mayer, R. (2001 ) Multimedia Learning.
Cambridge University Press.
http://www.unm.edu/~moreno/PDFS/chi.pdf
http://www.ece.uncc.edu/succeed/journals/PD
F-files/ijer-09.pdf

The S-O-I Model

helps the learner:

SOI

Select

important information

O rganize
and

I ntegrate

it into meaningful wholes

it into real-world problems

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SELECT
Help learners focus on the relevant pieces
of information:
Remove extraneous information
Highlight important information:
bolding, headings, fonts, white space
Provide summaries
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ORGANIZE

Help the learner organize the

incoming information into a coherent
representation:
Outlines
Headings
Graphics
Structure the text:
compare/contrast
cause/effect
classification
order/sequence
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INTEGRATE
Help learners activate and use prior
knowledge and coordinate multiple
representations of materials:

Illustrations with captions

Animation with narration
Worked-out examples
Elaborative questions
Real-world application
Ties to previous learning
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Pop Quiz:
How do we keep from
overloading learners?
(type in chat)

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3. Graphics with SOUL,

Animations that Teach,
Interactions with Meaning

Pics for email etiquitte

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Cube courtesy open slide

Cubicle Courtesy
(Examples)

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Animations that TEACH

(Examples)

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Interactions with Meaning

(Examples)

Better than Bullet Points:

1. Develop a treatment
2. Apply Mayers SOI model
3. Choose
graphics with soul,
interactions with meaning,
& animations that teach
Think Transform, not Convert
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The secret to great e-learning:

Its about design, not software.

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Coming Christmas 2007:

Jane Bozarths

Better Than Bullet Points

www.pfeiffer.com
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Jane Bozarth

E-Learning Coordinator, NC
Office of State Personnels
HRD Group
Author: E-Learning
Solutions on a Shoestring
(Pfeiffer)
Author: Better Than Bullet
Points (Pfeiffer:Christmas
2007)
Contributing Writer,
Training Magazine
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Design Techniques: Mix it Up!

From Bozarth, J. (2005). E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring. San Francisco:

Pfeiffer. Matching e-learning approaches to learner styles. Adapted from/used
with permission of Hermann International.