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Have you taken eLearning before?
There is no shortage of poorly designed ‘click to continue’ eLearning courses that evoke boredom or even dread. Courses that could have just as easily been put into a PDF and emailed but that have been stretched out to 30 minutes that force you to listen to someone reading the on-screen text before you can click to the next page. But it doesn’t have to be like this!
At ARC Learning, we encourage our clients to avoid such design pitfalls and engage learners using real-world challenges, and training best practices. In fact, we are often called in to ‘freshen up’ existing eLearning programs. eLearning doesn’t have to be boring. It can leverage video, animation, and, yes – even fun. The biggest mistake of ‘click to continue’ eLearning is lack of awareness (YouTube has been around for over a decade so why aren’t you using more of it) and lack of empathy with the learner (would you want to take this course if you were in their shoes?) We can do better!
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Why choose eLearning?
- An eLearning program allows people to learn when and where they want, with less disruption to the business.
- Since eLearning is managed by a Learning Management System (LMS), it can easily track participant’s progress. By displaying the progress, it makes participants accountable for their learning.
- Using an LMS means it is easier to measure not just completion rates but also valuable interaction and engagement metrics that will help you adapt to changing needs.
- eLearning is not one-dimensional rather it has a lot of variety including the use of podcasts, videos, and interactive activities. t allows you to choose the modality that is the best fit for the learning objectives while satisfying the identified constraints.
- eLearning can support on the job performance if it’s well designed and structured for re-playability.
- eLearning can be a great introduction to a topic and support a flipped-classroom model.
