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While eLearning is no longer in its infancy, the broad conversations and debates about best tools, best practices, and best approaches reveal unanswered questions about the best ways to develop eLearning. Too often, organizations take the shotgun approach with both content and design: The more, the better! But more content and design doesn’t necessarily mean more learning. Instructional designers need clear, actionable techniques that maximize learner engagement and minimize wasted development time on frills that do not support improved outcomes. Participants in this session will learn tips for effective eLearning design based on feedback from customers and best practices from the more than 260 content developers in the OpenSesame marketplace. OpenSesame is working to synthesize this information into a set of design guidelines to support improved content worldwide. For example, course developer ej4 uses video in both traditional and mobile courses to help clients achieve compliance and sales goals. You’ll examine their guidelines for designing for mobile and using video, with examples of courses that worked for ej4’s clients. In another example, you’ll explore Art Kohn’s view on the cognitive science behind using interaction strategically in video. In this session, you will learn: Strategies for simplifying eLearning content How to divide eLearning content into manageable “chunks” How to incorporate media elements to keep online learners’ attention
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Tips for Making Courses That Count
Kelly Meeker
Session Overview
Session Hashtag: #IDtips
Session overview
The marketplace for online corporate training
Break it down.Break content into logical, spaced chunks.
Mix it up.Incorporate multimedia elements to keep learners’ attention.
Keep it real.Focus courses on supporting desired performance outcomes.
Session objectives
Chunks & Spaces
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“Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else.
What’s more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter three-minute tasks, like answering e-mail messages, reading a Web page or working on a spreadsheet.”
- From Meet the Life Hackers
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11 Minute Chunks
11 minutes
Most learners have only 11 minutes between interruptions
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The 11 Minute Rule
And even if they have longer, their attention spans are unlikely to last longer.
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Subdivide information into short “chunks”
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The 11 Minute Rule
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You are here
Making the Most of Navigation
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Don’t Skip the Objectives
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Make Them Measurable
4-hour span Crash course lecture
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Spaced Learning
4-hour span Crash course lecture
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MOODSTRESSHUNGERSLEEP
Spaced Learning
1 week spanFour one-hour packages of instruction
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Spaced Learning
Mix It Up
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Storytelling
Image credit: Mike Sansone on Flickr
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Storyboards Are Essential
• Many courses aren’t courses, they’re textbooks
• They have a narrator read the slide verbatim
• They might lock navigation so that learners need to
sit through the narrator reading the slide verbatim
• They rely exclusively on bullets of text to
communicate the information
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Create the Unexpected
See what I did there?
Tip #9: Sonic Performance Support
Adding the Human Touch
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Tip #: Using VideoVideo is an opportunity.
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ej4 on Using Video
Entertain me.
Average television consumption in America per individual in 2010:
34 hours / week(Nielsen Company)
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Meet the TV Generation
Applications: social interaction:
OnboardingHR PoliciesProduct knowledgeProcess knowledgeSales
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Safety ComplianceCustomer serviceCorporate communications
When is video right?
ProduceMake it yourself!
Challenges:ResourcesLogisticsExpense
CurateFind something that works!
Challenges:Availability
Applicability
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Tip #10: Vivid LearningTips for Using Images
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Choosing Images
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Choosing Images
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Penguins Don’t Wear Shoes
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Don’t Use Everything At Once
Early adopter phase
Primarily experimental pilot projects
Costs are high
Big in select verticals
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Mobile Learning Life Cycle
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Learning for the first time
Wanting to learn more
Trying to remember
Things change
Something goes wrong
Choosing Mobile
“Gotta” make business sense.
The content must make/save the learner/company money or it is not worth pushing to mobile.
Sales and product specific content is the best for mobile.
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Why mobile?
“Gotta be…”
FastIf content is pushed to the device it has a higher chance of being completed.
CustomizedCould just be a logo
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How to use mobile?
Keep the interface simple.
If you have to tell them how to use it, it is too hard.
It is a SMALL screen - develop backwards.
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Mobile Tips & Tricks
Focus on Performance Outcomes
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Promoting Retention
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Engage Emotion
InnovateIterateImproveRepeat
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Think Lean
Ship early, ship often
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Think Lean
Questions?
Kelly Meeker@OpenSesame
Kelly.meeker@opensesame.com503-808-1268 ext. 314
The marketplace for online corporate training
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