Seeking ideas for driver education course
Apr 06, 2014
By
Jaanika Hirv
Hi everyone,
I've been been an avid reader of this great forum for a year and I'd really like to hear your ideas about the following:
I have a task to update an online theory course of driver education in Storyline. The old version is similar a photo/illustration slideshow with voiceover, chunked into approximately 5-7 minute bits. I can move away from this format somewhat, so I plan to add interactions and scenario-based tasks to make the course more engaging. However, I have to think of ways for smoothly integrating the interactions into the old format.
Have you ever created/worked with a course on driver ed? How did you approach it?
Or have you come across any great examples of online driver ed courses?
Thanks!
4 Replies
Jaanika,
I see that your post was a year ago, I am in the same situaiton you were a year ago. What soluction did you locate if any?
Hi ladies!
First of all, I'm so sorry that no one responded to you Jaanika! I hope you were able to figure it out on your own.
Susan, here are a couple examples that I think will give you some ideas:
Let me know if I can do anything further to help! :)
When the give way rules changed in New Zealand there was an amazing e-learning animation going around where you were sitting in a car and it came up to an intersection, you were then asked if you want to go or give way. Once you selected you would either carry on or it would give you feedback explaining why your decision was wrong.
I can't find the exact one but this page has some videos and images that you could recreate for similar effect http://www.nzta.govt.nz/traffic/around-nz/road-user-rule.html
Thanks for your examples, Allison and Tristan!
Susan - yes, I did work out a the way to build my courses, but I started much later than planned so nothing is ready yet.
I will do it as mix of lots of illustrations+ photos. Illustrations show the rules of the road and manoeuvres (as in Tristan's example, but illustrations with some animated elements - motion paths and states can be used for that) and annotated photos of real traffic, which draw attention to relevant things the driver should notice.
To make it cost-effective and simple to generate large amount of illustrations, I ordered a set of ready-made images (signs, cars, road markings) which I can combine in Storyline as I want, to explain large set of different situations that you come a across in traffic. There will be voice-over to explain the drawings + photos of real traffic + exercises at the end of each short lesson.
As I don't have much of a budget, I did not choose a video. However, annotated video in the style of "fly-on-the-wall in a driving lesson" (where the instructor explains the learner driver how and what to do) might be the best option.
I hope it gives you some ideas.
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