Topics this issue:
1. Simple and effective ways to make e-learning engaging
2. Featured Slideshow: “Boring e-Learning Programs: Something is Lost”
3. Over 50 engaging interactive exercises, games, simulation, etc.
1. Second wave of e-learning - basic and simple ways to engage learners in e-learnings
The second wave of e-learning programs is now starting to surface in businesses. Tired of the first-generation products where focus was on software, developers are now paying more attention on how to make e-learning more engaging.
But even before you spend time, effort and money on high interactivity or multimedia, there are basic ways you can make your program engaging with basic, simple and effective methods.
Consider these ideas:
- Allow learners to jump around the lessons and randomly select topics they find relevant
- Use short lessons that are no more than 3-4 pages long, with only about 50 words in a page
- Present learners with synthesis of content and allow them the option to delve into the detailed long text; avoid requiring learners to read long text
- Organize your content so that learners can see first the “must-learn” and “high-value” content
- Write your content in a conversational style, and not in the traditional “impersonal” technical writing style
- Always write using stories, metaphors, case studies, examples, illustrations, etc.
- Use images to vividly illustrate your story and metaphors
2. Featured Slideshow
Preview the Flash Slideshow on “Boring e-Learning Programs: Something is Lost”
To preview more Vignettes, slideshows and highly interactive programs, please register and be a member: http://www.vignettestraining.com/preview-main-ela.htm
3. Over 50 engaging interactive exercises, games, simulation, etc.
In the Blended e-Learning Workshop you will have access to over 50 interactive learning games, exercises, simulation, and in-box activities. You will be inspired to see the possibilities of an engaging e-learning program. To learn more about the Blended e-Learning Workshop, please click here http://www.vignettestraining.com/workshops/index.htm
Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com
"Helping Learners Learn Their Way"
