Michael Allen's e-Learning Annual 2012

AN ARGUMENT AGAINST VOICE-OVER POWERPOINT FOR E-LEARNING

Anita Rosen

PowerPoint clearly appeals to a broad audience of users for creating presentations. Once having learned to use PowerPoint, comfort and familiarity with the tool often lead to efforts to develop e-learning with it as well. This is an especially attractive path when PowerPoint presentations exist as a starting point for e-learning development. But author Anita Rosen asks, “Should we use these PowerPoint presentations with voice-over narration for e-learning? What do the stakeholders think? Are these courses meeting their needs?” These are important questions addressed by Anita's case studies.

WHAT WORKS?

Most trainers know how to organize their thoughts, prepare a PowerPoint ...