Kim’s Passion for eLearning

The strategies of different e-learning programs have different end-goals. Academic courses orient toward increasing learner retention, while corporate training programs seek behavior change to internal and external facing audiences. A voiceover artist who understands and performs her role with your specific project goals in mind, helps you achieve your KPIs and targets.

Whether your online course is structured with long lectures or broken into micro learning, the pacing and tone of your voiceover talent is integral to the success of the audio part of your multimedia presentation. You want seamless audio quality, consistent pacing and varied rhythm. The tone? Something pleasant on the ear.

The style and role of the narrator has changed in eLearning. Gone are the soporific, robotic professors and here to stay are the character narrators. The quirky hipster, the genuine friend, the engaged peer, the conversational manager. There is still call for the authoritative professional narrator, but even the delivery of this style has changed to a more authentic read. The key to great narration no matter the role taken on is high engagement. These choices bring new life to the genre. The focus? Totally one-to-one.

The key takeaway in high quality eLearning voice over narration? To give justice to a well thought out script, a good eLearning narrator must be either a subject matter expert who also has excellent, professional-grade storytelling capabilities or is an outstanding voice artist. Generally this means someone with both an acting background and experience with the educational process, who can present the material with the passion of a SME and keep the listener spellbound within the story of the script.

Genuine interest in the educational material at a high level is critical to robust learner engagement and program success. A career narrator, like Kim Handysides is a careful blend of actor, educator and professional speaker and can deliver on these goals.