I’d like an engaging 30 minute, highly interactive eLearning module.

Yes with an assessment please…toot sweet!

Are we keeping up with the Jones’ or our learner’s needs?

Contrast in conversations; organisations excited – learners

tend to be a little more ‘stabby’ on the subject of

eLearning

We need your help to make our eLearning

more relevant for our learners. Let’s

kill the Next button* No more

modules

*generally in line with an energetic fist pump

"

This presentation will hopefully:

Use customer quotes to help demystify what we’re really

asking for

Decrease pitch for sales significantly

We need your help to make our eLearning

more relevant for our learners. Let’s

kill the Next button* No more linear

modules!

*generally in line with an energetic fist pump

"

"

Linear

versus

Forced Navigation

We need your help to make our eLearning "

Forced navigation has stolen Linear navigation’s identity

Linear has become a dirty word, and it’s time it stood in

line to be counted!

Forced navigation, associated with:

Secret hotspots - you need Dan Brown to enable the damn Next button

Pointless page turner – ultimate goal, checking off another module

in the LMS

Linear Navigation associated with:

Audience competency level

Mastery building - basic to complex

Tailored, individual progress

"The only

when they click the next button

need more than that. Surely it wouldn’t

kill us to throw in a drag and drop and

a few click to reveals

"

"The only interaction they have is

when they click the next button - we

need more than that. Surely it wouldn’t

kill us to throw in a drag and drop and

a few click to reveals…

Interaction

versus

Hand/eye co-ordination

"need more than that. Surely it wouldn’t

ordination

Be gone incessant clicking for no particular reason

other than fitting an A4 page worth of text on a

computer screen…

Do you WANT your employees to have a meaningful learning

experience that they take back to their workplace and use

to increase company profits?

Or RSI?

Use the computer/human interaction to:

Tell a story

Use multiple choice questions to branch

Use reveals to create suspense and focus on consequences

first – make them want to find out what happens!

Sometimes content is what they need:

Don’t make them work for it

Relevant, meaningful and well written

Summarise, interrelate, demystify, guide

"…look, our learners are at the

‘eLearning saturation point’, so this

eLearning module needs to be really

really

ups done

"

"…look, our learners are at the

‘eLearning saturation point’, so this

eLearning module needs to be really

really engaging. Let’s get some mock-

ups done – show us what you can do.

Engaging Visual Design

versus

Engaging Instructional Design

"-

Engaging Visual Design

Engaging Instructional Design

If you start with the visual design in mind…

…You get something pretty, without much substance.

Focus on both visual and ID to strike the right balance…

Think; ‘That would be a helpful way to present information, provide

adequate practice and reduce calls to the IT help desk – and could I

be a pest and make that button blue please?’

Same applies for technology (ID First):

“But my employees are all Gen Y I need to reach them” – they have a PC sister!

“They’re always on their iPads – we can use that” – Nope, Carol’s snaps doing

tequila shots in Mexico

“They can learn ANYWHERE now!” You don’t own them!

"Yes of course we need an

Nicole. How else are we supposed to

know if they have learned anything?

"

"Yes of course we need an assessment

Nicole. How else are we supposed to

know if they have learned anything?

"assessment Assessment

versus

Genuine Practise

Do you even need an assessment?

Compliance?

Reporting?

Transfer?

Yes? Well then think about:

Context

Scenario-based questions

Simulate the environment (ummmm is it ‘B’ won’t fly with your

customer back in the workplace!)

Should they collaborate? YES!

Is it cheating? NO!

Use task analysis to design a collaborative assessment to

match the role and environment

Pulling your weight (learners will sort

out freeloaders)

What if you DIDN’T need an assessment…

No compliance requirement?

Completion state rather than pass mark

Stats are still important – how long did your

learner spend practicing in your module?

Practice rather than assessment means:

Repetition of practice opportunities (as

much as they need)

Perfect for systems training!

Make mistakes – and learn from them

Design for screwing up and then provide

well thought out feedback

Ensure the right medium for the right purpose