CHAPTER 15

Screen Text and Learning

In This Chapter

•  How do learning professionals use screen text in learning?

•  How do learners behave when reading screen text?

•  What are the screen text challenges for learning professionals?

The written word has been a key tool for learning professionals for what seems forever, whether it was the set of words chalked up on a blackboard that students hastily jotted in notebooks or handouts distributed in class. Text has provided trainers with a tool to share content for hundreds of years. And most learning professionals have a pretty good handle on how to write. Even if they’re not consciously following ...

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