Michael Allen's Online Learning Library: Successful e-Learning Interface: Making Learning Technology Polite, Effective, and Fun

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword xiii

Preface xv

Part One: The Need for Learner Interface Design Excellence 1

Challenges: User Interface vs. Learner Interface 3

Chapter 1 Design Magic 13

Chapter 2 Introducing the CEO of LID 21

Chapter 3 CCAF 29

Part Two: Learner Interface Design Guidelines 45

Chapter 4 C Is for Connect 47

Chapter 5 E Is for Empower 67

Chapter 6 O Is for Orchestrate 85

Part Three: Good and Bad Influences 107

Chapter 7 Fatal Attractions 109

Chapter 8 Doing the Right Things Versus Doing Things Right 119

Part Four: Examples 143

Chapter 9 Examples 145

Challenges: UI vs. LI Answers 167

Learner Interface Design Guidelines 177

Index 213

About Allen Interactions Inc. 229

About the Author 230