Submitted by Erik Bean on
Drawn from a variety of educational sources and from empirical best online platform classroom use, topography for attentive E-learning demonstrates how student engagement may be more effectively stimulated based on careful selection of font type, position, prominence, and style complementing various assignments from the humanities such as English composition, psychology, and social studies to history and philosophy as well as a variety of scientific based classes adopted to all major learning platforms such as Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai, to name a few. Idiosyncratic and personal experience provides practical topography use demonstrations as well as a brief history of fonts and style and several recommended design usage strategies including setting up quadrants in the classroom. The overarching premise is to use the right choice of fonts, style, and placement, to set the mood and for readability and attentiveness. Also discussed is online classroom first impressions and font placement and uses.