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Designing Adaptive Learning Paths in E-Learning #196

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7 years ago

 

Adaptive Path Branching in E-Learning #196: Challenge | Recap

E-learning courses are ideal for ensuring every employee receives the same training or communication message. This type of e-learning works well for compliance and policy courses. But the one-size-fits-all approach isn’t always the best one for performance-based topics such as leadership development, sales, and product training.

That’s because learners are unique. Their skills, knowledge, and experiences on a given topic will differ from one learner to the next. That’s where adaptive learning solutions can help.

With adaptive learning, one or more parts of the course will adapt to the skill level of the learners. Learners who demonstrate mastery early in the course could move faster through the course and be presented with more advanced scenarios and quizzes.

On the other hand, learners who underperform would move more slowly through the course and be presented with more practice opportunities and foundational information.

Simple Example of Adaptive Branching in Storyline

Here’s an example I often use in my variables workshop. It’s a simple project that leverages Storyline’s built-in results slide variables to determine how well a learner is performing during the course.

View project | Download (SL360) Download (SL2) | Video tutorial

Using conditional branching, learners who score below a determined point value will branch to a remediation scene where they’ll have additional practice activities. After some time, they can be branched back into the primary course.

The branching is transparent to the learner so they don’t even know they’re seeing different content from the other learners.

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share an adaptive branching example.

Because the conditional logic takes place under the hood, it likely won’t be obvious to us where the branching occurs. Please include some type of annotation or notes in your example to let us know where the magic happens.

In the example I shared, I included the variable reference and notes to tell users where the learners would go next based on their current score.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you adapt your examples to this week’s challenge, take some quality time to check out the personalized examples your fellow e-learning characters shared over the past week:

Choose Your Own E-Learning Characters #195: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you an adaptive week, E-Learning Heroes!

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The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

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    • DanSweigert-87b's avatar
      DanSweigert-87b
      Community Member
      Good work Ashi, but in my case, I think I can remember a person's phone number for two seconds and forget about remembering names!
    • DanSweigert-87b's avatar
      DanSweigert-87b
      Community Member
      Well done Sumanmadhu! I liked your choice of background images for the questions. It's always fun to see some science/physics challenges.
    • DanSweigert-87b's avatar
      DanSweigert-87b
      Community Member
      Hi Gyan, I'm on a few too many email lists already. If you can set it up where we don't have to enter that info, I'll come back and check it out.
      • DesignGyan's avatar
        DesignGyan
        Community Member
        There is no list involved. Its just sign in information. I haven't included the confidence of learner bit. In principle, unless the correct answer and confidence of learner can map, then it is a good idea. Here, it seems as if we are testing only learner confidence and giving answers separately.
  • A lot of the posted examples aren't adaptive branching - or even branching. Disappointing...
    • TracyCarroll's avatar
      TracyCarroll
      Community Member
      Hi Robin, the learner might not know the module adapts or branches according to their answers.

      You might need to read the accompanying post and/or download the template to learn how a particular example works.
    • JimAddoms's avatar
      JimAddoms
      Community Member
      Robin, my entry explains the adaptive path right in the module (because this is a demo) - in a real module, adaptive redirects would probably be opaque to the learner, as Tracy mentioned. These community examples show pretty creative ways of channeling users to additional content for more information or remediation. Seconding Tracy - I think you would have to download the project files to see exact branch points in these entries, but many explain in their entry on this page - and many folks have done independent write-ups of their entries that detail the branching prerequisites.
  • Hi Tracy, Yours IS adaptive branching, but a lot of these aren't. I looked at a ton of them. I wouldn't have left negative feedback otherwise. ;)
    • TracyCarroll's avatar
      TracyCarroll
      Community Member
      Oh, I see. You could reply to some of the posts to ask how (or if) the example shows adaptive branching, but I realize this would take time that you might not have!
    • JodiSansone's avatar
      JodiSansone
      Community Member
      HI Robin, I'm on this board to learn so why don't you post an example so we can see what you have in mind.? I'm not that experienced in branching myself so any ideas you have would be great to see.
      • RobinLove-61c4b's avatar
        RobinLove-61c4b
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        Unfortunately, I don't have any in Storyline, that's why I was combing through all of these trying to beg, borrow, and steal, lol. My comment was for the moderator of the post. I guess I assumed these challenges were moderated and curated, but it looks like anyone's example of anything could show up here.
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  • Hi,
    I am following this tutorial for adaptive learning, and I found the following issue. My 360 Storyline version does not have the default variables shown in the tutorial. It has no variables such as %Results.ScorePercent% or %Results.ScorePoints%. Should I import them? Why I do not have them?