PowerPoint for E-Learning

The Rapid E-Learning Blog - use PowerPoint to build great elearning courses

To successfully use PowerPoint for rapid elearning, you need to do two things:

  • Rethink how you use PowerPoint. Most people approach it from a linear presentation mindset, building slides the same way they would for face-to-face presentations. That just doesn’t work for elearning.
  • Learn to use PowerPoint’s features. Once you scratch the surface of the tools available in PowerPoint, you’ll see it’s more than adequate for building great elearning. In many ways it’s the ideal choice because it offers a blend of speed, ease-of-use, and cost savings.

The following posts explore lots of practical, hands-on tips and tricks for using PowerPoint to create elearning.  Use them and you’ll see how effective PowerPoint is to build good elearning courses.

What You Need to Know About PowerPoint & E-Learning

This series discusses key concepts and provides excellent examples of how to use PowerPoint for your elearning courses.

Tips & Tricks to Improve Your PowerPoint Skills

Here’s a series of posts that will give you all of the basic production techniques that you need to be successful.  The trick is to practice the techniques so that you can apply them to your own courses.

How to Create PowerPoint Templates (with free downloads)

Building templates for a PowerPoint elearning courses is different than building them for more traditional presentations.  In these posts, I share ways to be inspired, improve your creativity, and build elearning templates that will work with your content.

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