Conventional wisdom says all e-learning courses are should start with learning objectives, right?
One of those big 'aha!' moments for me was this example in Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning. There’s a great before-and-after example of opening the course with a dramatic, scenario-based opening.
Rather than launching the flight attendant training with a typical objectives checklist and a pile of procedures, the course opened just like a disaster movie. Right from the first slide, they were thrown into an emergency water landing and had to figure out what to
That example really flipped the script on how courses usually begin. Instead of just telling learners what they’ll learn, it dropped them right into a real-life scenario. And scenario-first e-learning is what this week’s challenge is all about.
🏆 Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to create a realistic scenario-first example that replaces the usual learning objectives.
You can use either Rise or Storyline for this one. If you’re short on time, the quickest way is just to use Rise, grab one of the Real Content templates, and add your scenario block or Storyline block right at the start.
🙌 Share Your E-Learning Work
You put in the effort, now make sure your work gets seen:
- Personal blog: If you have a blog, please write about your example from this week’s challenge and share the link with your submission.
- Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn and mention both David & Articulate using the #ElearningChallenge tags so we can help promote your work.
- Support your peers: With the new submission format, you can comment directly on each example. Try leaving helpful feedback on at least three projects this week.
- Community forums: Feel free to cross-post in the forums to give your work even more visibility.
🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:
Before you get started on this week's challenge, check out the sports training examples your fellow community members shared over the past week:
Using E-Learning for Sports Training #536: Challenge | Recap
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.
Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.
