Mini-Course: Employee Health & Wellness #492

Health & Wellness E-Learning Mini-Courses #492: Challenge | Recap

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about building a strong e-learning portfolio. My go-to response? Participate in the e-learning challenges at least once a month. By the end of the year, you’ll have 12 solid examples to showcase!

However, a few people have asked for something more comprehensive than standalone examples, so this week we’re stepping it up. We’ll create a mini-course on employee health and wellness. You can update past work to fit this new theme.

For example, if you’ve created a slider, dial, or tab interaction before, rework it to match the style of this mini-course. Use these elements as the interactive or content pieces for the course, and keep the visual style consistent.

This way, you’re not just adding standalone examples to your portfolio; you’re building a more cohesive project that shows you can tackle bigger, more comprehensive pieces. 

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to create and share a 5-slide mini-course on a health and wellness topic you’re passionate about. 

Incorporate a mix of informational content and interactive elements to keep learners engaged while using different content and/or block types.

Demo Content Ideas

The default Rise Employee Health and Wellness course is a great resource to kick things off, but feel free to create your own unique take if that’s more your style.

View the Rise course | View the Storyline version

Example Topics

You can choose any employee health-related topic you like.. Here are a few additional topics to help you get started:

• Stress Management Basics
• Introduction to Mindful Eating
• Sleep Hygiene 101
• Beginner's Guide to Home Workouts
• Understanding Mental Health Basics
• Healthy Habits Formation

Suggested Interactive Elements Ideas

You can use any mix of content and interactions you like. One idea is to rework previous challenge entries you’ve shared and rebrand them for this week’s challenge. 

• Multiple choice questions
• True/False quizzes
• Drag-and-drop exercises
• Interactive objects (sliders, dials, scrolling panels, interactive markers)
• Knowledge checks

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start a new discussion and share a link to your published example.
• Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure.
• Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn, mentioning either David or Articulate, and include the tag #ElearningChallenge. This makes it easier for me to find your examples and helps you connect with other e-learning designers.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before diving into this week’s challenge, take a look at how course designers are bringing lost arts and traditional skills to life in e-learning:

Traditional Skills & Lost Arts RECAP #491: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

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.

📆 Upcoming Challenges

Challenge #493: Interactive business models. Remember the challenge we did on Demming's Red Bead experiement? That's the goal for this challenge. Only you can choose any business model you like. Some common models include:

• The Beer Game (Beer Distribution Game)
•  Lean Manufacturing Simulations
• The Marshmallow Challenge
• The Paper Clip Production Game
• The Penny Game

Challenge #494: TikTok style learning videos. Sure, we tackled this challenge two years ago, but it’s still one of the most popular topics. With all the buzz around TikTok lately, now feels like the perfect time to revisit it.