Many of us have been in this situation: your boss hands you a new e-learning project, gives you a 100-slide PowerPoint, and tells you “everything” is important.
But as the instructional des...
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Nicole I can't tell you how many times the 100 slide presentations have landed on my desk for "rapid deployment" with the requirement to look exactly like the presentation given in-class....
We have started to use (as Richard states) pop-ups, click for more, tips and tricks and a feature that has become very popular and well liked by our learners, the Expert's Corner where our "expert" provides the background and context or history of why the information is important and how it might be useful.
Once we started to restructure the content like this it was easy to pull out the need to know and allow the learner to determine if they wanted the nice to know.
We have started to use (as Richard states) pop-ups, click for more, tips and tricks and a feature that has become very popular and well liked by our learners, the Expert's Corner where our "expert" provides the background and context or history of why the information is important and how it might be useful.
Once we started to restructure the content like this it was easy to pull out the need to know and allow the learner to determine if they wanted the nice to know.
Thanks for sharing your comment Jacqueline. I also love your comment on the LinkedIn article with your great tips about changing the question from "Do learners need to know this?" to "WHY do learners need to know this?" and also like your tip of making SMEs evaluate importance of content. Great suggestions!