Why eLearning is the Future of Education and Professional Development in 2025
Why eLearning is the Future of Education and Professional Development in 2025

One of the most compelling aspects of eLearning is its ability to democratize education. Geographical barriers no longer dictate access to quality education. Whether you're in a bustling city center or a remote rural area, eLearning platforms bring world-class educational resources directly to your device. By eliminating expenses associated with physical infrastructure, travel, and accommodation, eLearning makes high-quality education more affordable and accessible.

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The Critical Role of Graphic Design in Modern eLearning
The Critical Role of Graphic Design in Modern eLearning

One of the most important parts of thoughtful graphic design in eLearning is its ability to transform complex information into digestible, memorable pieces. The layout of a document or page in an eLearning course is crucial to how information is absorbed. Through strategic use of icons, infographics, diagrams, and typography, difficult concepts become more approachable and easier to understand. Just as advertising leverages visual associations, eLearning can use specific colours, fonts, and images to create lasting mental connections with key concepts.

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Maximizing Learning Impact: Blending Digital and In-Person Education
Maximizing Learning Impact: Blending Digital and In-Person Education

In today’s evolving educational world, combining digital tools with traditional in-person teaching is essential. From corporate training to universities and schools, blended learning is transforming how knowledge is shared and acquired. Here’s why this hybrid approach is becoming the go-to for effective education.

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How to Create an Animation Overflow Container in Storyline

Learn how to create an animation overflow container in Articulate Storyline, using built-in tools like the scrolling panel to manage and contain animations effectively. This easy trick ensures smooth, controlled animations for e-learning projects, enhancing both design and accessibility. Perfect for instructional designers aiming for polished, WCAG-compliant content.

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Gamification and Accessibility: How to Design Inclusive Games
Gamification and Accessibility: How to Design Inclusive Games

This blog explores how to design accessible gamified learning experiences that cater to all abilities. From ensuring visual and hearing accessibility to accommodating cognitive and physical challenges, we highlight practical strategies for creating inclusive educational games. Learn how to make gamified eLearning more engaging and accessible for every learner, regardless of their needs.

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The Role of Visual eLearning Platforms on Interactive Education
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How to Create an Accessible Accordion in Articulate Storyline (WCAG Compliant)

This blog post explores how to create a fully accessible accordion in Articulate Storyline, ensuring compliance with WCAG guidelines. We walk through step-by-step instructions to build the accordion while addressing key accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility and managing motion paths. Ideal for e-learning developers looking to enhance interactivity and ensure inclusive learning design in their courses.

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How to Remove Object Visibility for Accessibility Tools in Storyline 360

Learn how to improve accessibility in Storyline 360 by removing non-essential objects from screen readers. This simple tip ensures decorative images and irrelevant elements are hidden from assistive technology, enhancing the learning experience for users with disabilities. Follow this guide to make your e-learning content more compliant with WCAG and other accessibility standards.

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Storyline 360: Removing Object Visibility to Accessibility Tools

In this tutorial, we explore how to handle decorative images in e-learning courses, ensuring they don’t interfere with the user experience for screen reader users. You'll learn how to manage non-text content in Articulate Storyline, identifying which visual elements need to be hidden from screen readers and how to adjust their accessibility settings. The step-by-step guide covers practical tips for fixing accessibility issues, managing embedded objects, and speeding up your workflow while keeping your content compliant and inclusive for all learners. Perfect for those looking to create accessible, visually engaging e-learning experiences.

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Enhancing eLearning Inclusion: The Importance of Animation Accessibility Awareness in Storyline

Discover how to make your eLearning content engaging and inclusive by balancing the benefits of animations with accessibility needs, including a practical solution like the Animation Toggle Button—click to learn more!

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eLearning hints-and-tips: How to populate a Learner's name from your LMS into Lectora (no code knowledge required!)

Using a Learner's name in your content can add a valuable personal touch to your content and support greater engagement, but how easy is this to achieve in ELB Learning’s Lectora?

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Building an eLearning gamelet - The journey starts!
Building an eLearning gamelet - The journey starts!

After a few weeks of scoping, concept creation, storyboarding and graphic design, technical scoping and development, and QA and accessibility testing, it’s time to release the eLearning Journey gamelet into the wild and, importantly, listen to user feedback!

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Building a customisable eLearning Snake-style game - Early teaser release!
Building a customisable eLearning Snake-style game - Early teaser release!

Mobile technology has transformed pretty much every aspect of our lives, changing how we communicate, work, learn and - importantly - play. This technological transformation can feel like a relatively recent phenomenon, but for readers that can remember having a Nokia 3210, you’ll know that the OG mobile game was Snake! It was easy to play and very addictive. So how can it improve learning engagement today?

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Building eLearning content for visually impaired users

As hybrid working models have become commonplace, with more staff working from home than ever before, improving your organisation’s training approach is essential to ensure that staff understand and apply current company policies. Whether you are working within an industrial business, financial services organisation, a charity or creating eLearning for health, every sector has specific training requirements and will require tailored content. Training may include operational delivery, regulatory knowledge and also how to protect your organisation from cybersecurity threats such as phishing. With the reduction in face-to-face interactions and training, understanding and taking into account accessibility considerations have never been more important.

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