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Motivating and Gaining Attention in E-Learning #279: Challenge | Recap
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Motivating learners is a key goal for course designers. Even the most exciting subject matter can feel boring to learners if the content is irrelevant, has poorly written course descriptions, lacks benefit to the learner, and more. What’s more, if they’re not interacting with the content, learners are more likely to space out.
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As course designers, it’s our job to come up with creative ways to keep learners tuned in and receptive to the material. And finding ways to gain our learners’ attention is what this week’s challenge is all about!
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Challenge of the Week
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This week, your challenge is to share ideas to grab learners’ attention at the opening of the course. This can be a quiz, scenario, video, case study, or any other idea you want to show.
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Share Your E-Learning Work
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\n- Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
\n- Forums: Start your own thread and share a link to your published example..
\n- Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
\n- Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.
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Last Week’s Challenge:
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Before you turn your attention to this week’s challenge, check out the creative ways random number variables are used in e-learning:
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Random Number Variables in E-Learning #278: Challenge | Recap
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Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!
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New to the E-Learning Challenges?
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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.
Here's a quick look at a course I built last year which uses the same JavaScript to address the learner by name:
https://twitter.com/JHill_AssocCIPD/status/1253960507058458624And here's a good article on how displaying the user's name can take advantage of 'The Cocktail Party Effect'. Just like when you overhear your name in a crowded room, seeing your name written will also gain your attention.
https://www.keepitusable.com/blog/psychology-corner-cocktail-party-effect/Here's a quick look at a course I built last year which uses the same JavaScript to address the learner by name:
https://twitter.com/JHill_AssocCIPD/status/1253960507058458624And here's a good article on how displaying the user's name can take advantage of 'The Cocktail Party Effect'. Just like when you overhear your name in a crowded room, seeing your name written will also gain your attention.
https://www.keepitusable.com/blog/psychology-corner-cocktail-party-effect/Hello!
What better way to get your learner's attention than addressing them by name?
My mobile-optimised demo showcases a natty bit of JavaScript by Zsolt Olah, which grabs your user's name from your LMS.
Outside an LMS, the %name% variable will default to 'GUEST'. So here's what it looks like in practice:
https://twitter.com/JHill_AssocCIPD/status/1253813904729427969There are a couple of other tricks here too, following David Anderson's recent advice that 'if it moves, it gets attention.'
YOUR LMS WANTS YOU!
Demo:
https://bit.ly/elhc279Download:
https://bit.ly/elhc279dlHello!
What better way to get your learner's attention than addressing them by name?
My mobile-optimised demo showcases a natty bit of JavaScript by Zsolt Olah, which grabs your user's name from your LMS.
Outside an LMS, the %name% variable will default to 'GUEST'. So here's what it looks like in practice:
https://twitter.com/JHill_AssocCIPD/status/1253813904729427969There are a couple of other tricks here too, following David Anderson's recent advice that 'if it moves, it gets attention.'
YOUR LMS WANTS YOU!
Demo:
https://bit.ly/elhc279Download:
https://bit.ly/elhc279dlI'm a Superhero fan so this would have drawn me in instantly. Would love to have a go on the demo if you have it.
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Watch this space!
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