more than just "click next": creating innovative & interactive elearning
DESCRIPTION
Years ago, e-learning development was a complicated process requiring a full team of professionals: instructional designers to write the script, graphic designers to create visuals, and developers to code. This system required time, resources, and budget—things that are nearly always in short supply. Rapid e-learning development tools changed all this. Now a single instructional designer can take on a project from start to finish. While these tools reduce costs and trim timelines, it can sometimes come at a cost to the final product. Using templates instead of graphic designers can lead to e-learning that looks generic or ugly. Using pre-rendered interactions instead of developers can lead to a habit of forcing the content into a handful of stock interactions rather than fitting the interaction to the content. When the tools aren’t pushed beyond the basics of what they can do, we often end up with the dull “Click Next” e-learning that people dread taking. So does this mean that rapid e-learning tools can’t create memorable learning experiences? Not at all. It just means we need to use these tools differently for them to be effective.TRANSCRIPT
More Than Just “Click Next”Creating Innovative & Interactive eLearning
Session Speaker: Bianca Woods@eGeeking
eLearning: The old approach
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New Challenges
We’re making more eLearning ourselves
There are more options for what we can create
There’s a push for “interactivity”
What does that even
mean?
Clicking buttons doesn’t make your eLearning more engaging
Your real challenge
Who, me?!
Creating eLearning that
actually increases engagement for your learner
Rethinking your eLearning during…
Planning
Design
Delivery
PlanningWhat you need to figure out before you even start writing
Does it NEED to be eLearning?
Uggg! Why do you keep
giving me a course when what I need is
a job aid?!
Yet another eLearning course
In this course, you’ll learn how to:•Blah Blah Blah•Blah Blah Blah•Blah Blah Blah•Blah Blah Blah
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Does it ONLY need to be eLearning?
Your fantastic eLearning course
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What do we know about our LEARNERS?
Your Average Learner
Who exactly are our learners for this content?
What’s their experience with this topic?
What’s their world like?
What do they already know?
What don’t they know?
Why will they want to know this content?
What is using this content going to be like in their real work?
When will they need to use what they learn?What are they hearing about this topic?
I finished the eLearning…
now what do I do?
What do they actually need to DO after?
DesignThinking about the nuts and bolts of your eLearning
Avoid content dumps!
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How does it tie back to the learner’s real life?
Or, to put it another way…
What’sInItForMe?
Chunk your content into small, logical bites
60 minute eLearning
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What’s your story? Where’s the emotion?
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Provide examples from the real world
Write for your audience
Not too complicated… not too easy… just right!
Think carefully aboutthe look & feel
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Use interactions only where it makes sense
*sigh*Why does this eLearning like playing “Hide The Text” so
much?!
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Leverage “learning by doing”
Let the learner choose how they explore
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Section 3
Section 2
Let people opt-out if they already know it
Pass Fail
Pre-Test
Skip learning completely
Skip parts of the learning
Just do a refresher
Do the full learning
Do additional lessons/activiti
es
Do a remedial section
Does it NEED to have a final test?
THISDoesn’t actually tell us anything important
Question 10
It is important to know about this topic
True
False
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Give them resources so they can keep learning
So what should I do
NEXT?
Websites to check outPeople to contactBooks to readRelated skills to learnNext courses to tryCheat sheets & job aids to help on the jobPodcasts to listen toMailing lists to joinNewsletters to readSocial media to follow
DeliveryJust because your project is published, doesn’t mean your work is done
How are you promoting your learning?
Step right up and try your hand at some
eLearning!
Do YOU know where your steak has been?
Food safety 101
Where does your learning “live”?
GRRRRR!!
!How can I DO the
learning if I can’t FIND
it?!
!!!!
What devices can people access it with?
eLearning becomes engaging when it ties back to the learner
Additional Resources
http://biancawoods.weebly.com/engaging-elearning.html
http://e-geeking.blogspot.ca/
@eGeeking