E-Learning & Instructional Design Tips #324: Challenge | Recap
Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to share an interactive listicle of 10 things course designers should kno...
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Hi Jackie, thanks so much for your genuine feedback. It's as if you were reading my mind. When I was designing this sample, I was debating whether I should give full control to the user or make it more restrictive so that the user can click on the tips one at a time. Your feedback helped me realize that my intuition of giving full control to the user was right. However, the teacher in me keeps coming out and saying no, this is a series of steps and the user should be visiting them in order. :) But I agree with you 100%. It would be more fun to give the user the option of moving around the content any way they want. It makes it more fun. I think I will create a version with a free exploration option and add both to my portfolio as a way of displaying different options. Again, thank you so much for your kindness and for being honest in your feedback.
You’re so welcome, Amy! I have the same debates in my head about nearly EVERY screen element and interaction - that’s probably why it stays so engrossing and fun!
To my complete incomprehension, what I’ve found over and over and over and over and over again is that in real life (not challenge examples), after I’ve created a deliciously inviting interaction where learners can clearly explore at will, they invariably start with what they think the first item should be (this would definitely apply if they were numbered) and work their way through in what they perceive to be the most orderly fashion.
So that would be my surmise if you numbered the chrysalises and unlocked it - that most would carefully go through in order anyway. I think the big plus to unlocking is the perception and that you’re not being constrained.
To my complete incomprehension, what I’ve found over and over and over and over and over again is that in real life (not challenge examples), after I’ve created a deliciously inviting interaction where learners can clearly explore at will, they invariably start with what they think the first item should be (this would definitely apply if they were numbered) and work their way through in what they perceive to be the most orderly fashion.
So that would be my surmise if you numbered the chrysalises and unlocked it - that most would carefully go through in order anyway. I think the big plus to unlocking is the perception and that you’re not being constrained.