Characters in E-Learning #18: Challenge | Recap
One of the most active topics in our community is around using characters in online courses. Whether they’re photographic, illustrate...
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@Joshua - I love your example! Nice detail and great interactions to check/reinforce understanding. Thank you for sharing it!
Here's mine. It's a sample from a sexual harassment course I created. Since the average learner doesn't see him/herself as a harasser I decided to create a protagonist/harasser who ALSO doesn't see himself that way (he's just a fun guy!) in hopes of getting the learner to stop and think about the content a bit rather than just clicking through. I thought it was a good example of using characters in e-learning.
Here's the sample: http://jackievannice.com/sample_harassment/story.html
Here's my post about the course and how and why I created it: http://www.jackievannice.com/?page_id=175059677
Here's mine. It's a sample from a sexual harassment course I created. Since the average learner doesn't see him/herself as a harasser I decided to create a protagonist/harasser who ALSO doesn't see himself that way (he's just a fun guy!) in hopes of getting the learner to stop and think about the content a bit rather than just clicking through. I thought it was a good example of using characters in e-learning.
Here's the sample: http://jackievannice.com/sample_harassment/story.html
Here's my post about the course and how and why I created it: http://www.jackievannice.com/?page_id=175059677
The characters are great and I love how the voice over tells the story first and then the text reinforces the concepts at hand.