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    Part II: Visual Design Evaluation
Due: Exercise will be conducted in class Wed 28 May
Weighting: 10%
Task:
Evaluation of visual design components from 3 existing e-Learning courses. Explanation of how the screen designs effectively addresses the principles of visual design.

Read Mayer & Moreno

•    Describe the screen layout
•    Visual Hierarchy (evaluate the use of contrast to draw attention to the key elements) eg movements, color contrasts, pictures, size, bold texts, placing t on the left because we read from left to right, audience?

•    Placement of Graphics (evaluate in terms of multimedia principle and alignment and proximity principles) ie, learn better with pics than words alone, graphic and text should be near each other,

•    Style of graphics (describe in terms of appropriateness and multimedia coherence principle) ie. choice of graphics – apply to the text?  Purpose of graphic, is it distracting learner? static/motion/interactive/video
•    Use of colours (do the selected colours enhance or distract the learning context)
•    Do you consider the visual design effective from the learning perspective? Why or why not

Cognitive load – too much informations