Ad Inspired Template Design

The other day I read the latest posting on The Rapid eLearning Blog - 5 E-Learning Design Ideas I Got While Traveling.  Essentially it was about finding inspiration for templates and elements that might be used when creating elearning courses.

I knew that Tom Kuhlmann has been doing this king of seek and create for a long time and I started the practice as well.  I however, keep collecting the ideas, but fail to create much with them.

His blog posting had a challenge to use three different images to create elearning elements which he will be sharing in a future posting.  I submitted one for that purpose, but ti got me looking at some of my other collected ideas and what I could create.

Here is one that is based on this advertisement (Mohawk University ad, found in Training Magazine Jan/Feb 2011):

Ad Image

My Version

Link to download template

I will say that I think my version is very literal.  Perhaps I haven't had enough practice with creating these and pulling out elements from these items of inspiration.  However, I hope that with more practice in creating templates and elearning elements I will only get better.