E-Learning Courses: Do and Don’t!
Elearning courses are a perfect way to learn and stay up to date and to continue to progress.
But there are a few things to keep in mind when designing your elearning course.
First of all, don't overwhelm your learners with too much text. It's best to break up the text with visuals like audio, video, and images.
Secondly, make sure that your course is interactive and engaging. Include activities and quizzes to get your learners involved in the material.
Finally, make sure you include a feedback loop. This will allow your learners to ask questions and get help if they need it.
Following these simple tips will keep your elearning course engaging and effective. So don't delay - start designing your elearning course today!
Transform Long text into Audio
It is well known that the internet is difficult to read, so why load your courses with long texts?
All long and technical information should be attached to the course in PDF format if necessary.
But before you do this, convert the texts into audio format and also consider creating a video where, for example, two experts talk to each other.
Courses Versus Activities
The notion of an e-learning course needs to be challenged. Is it really the solution for the case or the problem to be solved.
A lecture where the learner is passive like in a school classroom is not the solution.
Creating activities is often the best approach. The learner manipulates, clicks, drags, rotates, discusses, exchanges...
Being pro-active and interacting with the content increases the retention of information and offers a qualitative learning experience.
Design and Brand your content
Much of the content comes from pedagogical specialists and suggest expert matter.
The methods and knowledge need to be restructured by an instructional designer to digitise the content intelligently in microleaning and activity formats.
But the design and branding of this content is a necessary exercise for a perfect reading and understanding of the course.
Premium content is also an important exercise for your brand. E-learning courses mirror your values, your DNA and your sense of detail and perfection!
Talk to your Learners
Before starting your strategy and course design it is important to talk to your audience.
What are their expectations, their problems, their challenges? What are the problems to be solved?
What formats are best suite:
webinars,
videos,
workshops,
scenarios,
webinars?
Engage with your learners
Your learners are not just there to receive instructions and information. Many of them are experts and can therefore take part in the reflection and sharing of knowledge.
So invite your audience to exchange, share, discuss... Turn yourself into e-coaches!
Adapted Video-based Learning.
Video is still considered too expensive a medium, but with a learning management system like the Learning Lab you can create videos directly on the solution.
Video simplifies the relay of information in an extremely easy, clear and pragmatic way. The ultimate comfort for your learners.
Blogs, vlogs and articles
They are great ways to share content and resources with your audiences.
It is important to share information, insights and advice in an organized way.
Vlogs, or video blogs, are perfect for giving your learners a more personal, up-close-and-personal experience.
All three formats also have the added bonus of being User Generated Content (UGC).
Select the right LMS
The market offers many solutions. So choose the solution that suits you. You have to be unique. As Oscar Wilde said Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
An e-learning project is not an administrative or accounting operation - your audience needs innovation and creativity.
Your project needs design, branding, activities, discussions and audio and video.
Off the shelf or not
Unless you want to learn Photoshop, but for all the other issues facing your company, off-the-shelf content will lead you into a dead end.
An e-learning course is a specific response to a challenge or problem.
An e-learning course must be tailor-made for your learner. It should also include exchanges and meetings.
Onboarding, don’t wait !
25% of the turnover happens during the first two months!
So don't hesitate to start your onboarding programme even before your employee's first day on the job.
Well measured and designed you increase the desire to join your company and strengthen your corporate image and culture.
Elearning : Do and Don’t
We can summaries by stressing the importance of putting your learners at the centre of everything!
Dialogue and exchange are crucial for understanding before developing a course.
The trend around the Learning Experience platform is also reinforced because a learner who is deeply involved and integrated into the e-learning project becomes a much more motivated employee.
It is part of continual learning and thus reinforces your corporate culture.
Our solution, the Learning Lab, is a hybrid solution between an LMS and LXP. It is also a video-based e-learning platform.