Blunder: a stupid or careless mistake.
Alternative words: mistake, error, gaffe, fault, slip, oversight, inaccuracy, botch.
This post was inspired by David Anderson’s eLearning challenge: Death, Taxes and E-Learning Mistakes. The purpose of the challenge was to highlight blunders found in eLearning courses and Articulate Community members provided many great examples of what not to do.
I wanted to bring these examples together and share them here (just in case you haven’t seen the challenge). I’ve taken the blunders identified and grouped them into categories.
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Double branding of screens.
Split attention (having to combine information together to make sense of it).
‘Previous’ button on the first slide and ‘Next’ button on the last slide.