Typography to improve attentive e-learning

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.

Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education
Presentation Date: 
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Event or Conference: 
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
Presentation Type: 
Paper Presentation
Boyer's Domain: 
Presentation Location: 
Washington, DC, DC
United States
Abstract: 
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.