Bloopers and blunders in e-learning design

Even smart developers make dumb mistakes. All that hard work! Then one hour after you put it online, you realize it is never going to work.

In this presentation, we look at tragically common goofs in screen layout, navigation, multimedia, interactivity, organization, colors, graphics, text, authoring tools, management tools, standards and usability testing. See the not so good, the bad, and the truly ugly. Come up with ways to fix these problems and avoid them in the future.

At the end of this presentation, we consolidate our wisdom into best practices. Attendees are encouraged to submit samples of development bloopers and blunders that they have seen (or created!?!?!) and help other developers avoid the same pitfalls.

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Best practices: These best practices were collected November 12, 2003, at the E-Learning Producer's Conference and Expo held in San Francisco, CA.