9ANIMATION—JUST ENOUGH, NEVER TOO MUCH
ANIMATIONS APPEAR IN e-learning programs as a simulation for the learners to work through. Animations appear as an avatar that waves at you when it wants you to click on it. Animations appear as text popping up on a stage, spinning, and then fading out. Animations appear as screen transitions with a movie clapperboard. It seems like animations are appearing everywhere.
Authoring tools, Adobe Flash, HTML5, and other technologies have made it so easy to create and drop animation into your e-learning program. But just because you can add these animations doesn’t mean that you should.
This chapter helps you decide which animation types to use in your own e-learning programs and offers some less complicated alternatives. ...
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