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Preventing Workplace Violence: E-Learning Scenarios #57

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11 years ago

E-Learning Workplace Violence #57: Challenge | Recap

What’s the first word that pops into your mind when you hear “compliance training?” 

If you’re like most course designers (and learners), you know that compliance training isn't typically where one finds showcase e-learning examples.

That makes sense. Most compliance courses are designed to share information and create awareness more than change behaviors. Some topics, such as preventing workplace violence, can be designed as information- and performance-based courses.

The challenge for course designers is striking the balance between information sharing and relevant interactions. And that’s what this week’s e-learning challenge is all about!

Challenge of the week

This week your challenge is to show scenario examples designed to prevent or address workplace violence.

You can structure your demo any way you like—just be sure to include some type of scenario.

If you’re looking for a practical model, take a look at Tom’s 3-C scenario model. We use this model a lot in our workshops because it’s simple and works with any content.

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Thanks to Raye Shilen for suggesting this week's challenge topic.

Resources

Here are some scenario resources to help you get started:

Compliance-based training

Blog posts on e-learning scenarios

Forum discussions on scenarios

Share your e-learning work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published project and blog post.
  • Forums: Create your own thread in our E-Learning Heroes forums and share a link to your published demo.
  • 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.
  • Twitter: If you share your demos on Twitter, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.
  • Facebook: Reply to this Facebook post with a link to compliance demo.

Last week's challenge

Before you jump into this week's challenge, take a look at the top things instructional designers don't like to hear:

E-Learning Challenge Recap #56: Challenge | Recap

New to the e-learning challenges?

The weekly 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.

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.

If you share your demos on Twitter, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

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  • These are great! I love the characters that Matt chose and the scenarios. I also really enjoyed the opening for Kristin's

    My biggest fear is that I am going to wind up with almost the same content/look feel as someone else. I am glad that has not happened yet!
    • DavidAnderson's avatar
      DavidAnderson
      Staff
      I wouldn't worry about similar looks. We're all using roughly the same characters and starting templates.

      Poor Atsumi, right? She's starred in some seriously amazing and horrible e-learning courses the past two years. Wonder how she handles that with her agents:-)
    • MatthewGuyan's avatar
      MatthewGuyan
      Partner
      Thanks Mel. Your demos are always terrific, so I know you'll come up with something great! One of the great things I find with the challenges is that even if I'm stuck for ideas the demos seem to get the ideas flowing.
    • jeff's avatar
      jeff
      Community Member
      HA, you'll probably rock this challenge with a cool 8bit game if I know you!
      • MelissaMilloway's avatar
        MelissaMilloway
        Community Member
        I didn't. :( I went for something more traditional but with a bit of my fun style.
  • Here is my entry for this challenge. I've been working on using sliders in a creative manner and I challenged myself to create a parallax effect since I have a special project I want to work on later on. I decided to use what I've learned so far and have the user be able to explore an office area to find potential conflicts. This was done fairly quickly, but I'm satisfied with the results. There are a few kinks I have to work out, but that's a problem for another day.

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76334956/OfficeConflict%20-%20Storyline%20output/story.html
    • JackieVanNice's avatar
      JackieVanNice
      Super Hero
      You know, I always wondered about the behind-the-scenes relationships between the built-in characters.

      Not only is this a nice slider effect, but it's a coup of investigative journalism. How in the world did you get this kind of insider access into their locked-down world?

      Well done, Jerson.
    • MelissaMilloway's avatar
      MelissaMilloway
      Community Member
      Another ELH with great humor! I was seeing these comments come in and cracking up. Now I completely understand what it was about. I really like the slider action.
    • DavidAnderson's avatar
      DavidAnderson
      Staff
      I was just talking to Richard Watson about that yesterday. I think it's really helpful to share the time you guys invest in your demos.

      I should also mention that it's totally appropriate to limit your challenge dev time to 30 minutes each week. Demos don't have to be polished. If you have a creative solution, that's what we care most about. #JustSaying
      • MelissaMilloway's avatar
        MelissaMilloway
        Community Member
        I'm super OCD about everything physically matching! lol I think that comes from my background in design. That really takes up a chunk of time.
    • KristinAnthony's avatar
      KristinAnthony
      Community Member
      Guess I'm a slowpoke. I consider the approx. 2 days (maybe about 8-10 hours) I spend on demos as rapid development. I'm learning more about rapid prototyping as a development model and I do use it with these. I start off by quickly drawing what I think I want to do; then I create a more polished demo; Then I add on from there. I don't think I could be happy with anything I did in 30 minutes unless I knew I would be doing more successive designs.
      • MelissaMilloway's avatar
        MelissaMilloway
        Community Member
        I am really glad that you feel that way too. My boyfriend is over here telling me I am going too slow when I am doing these challenges, LOL. He is like why are you spending so much time on images?

        He started using Storyline too. I would like for him to join in.
  • Any chance someone would like to turn the Preventing Workplace Violence scenarios into a course and sell it on LuckyELK.com? I would be interested to work with anyone who would like to.
    • DanielAdeboye's avatar
      DanielAdeboye
      Community Member
      Hey Mary, good work there... Particularly like the content style.
      However, I think the timing for the scenario and feedback was a bit too short, I couldn't get to read some through before it asked me what I would do, now I have to guess... I would suggest allowing the learner progress himself when he's done reading, more so the text is quite a bit!
      Besides this, awesome stuff and good audio too...
      • MaryCropp2's avatar
        MaryCropp2
        Community Member
        I appreciate the feedback, Daniel. I struggle with timing, but I personally despise the "next" button. Your feedback has made me think of different ways for the user to control the slide. Thanks!
    • JackieVanNice's avatar
      JackieVanNice
      Super Hero
      I love it Mary! Your idea, images, music, approach - all fresh and intriguing.

      I was prepared for the timing after seeing Daniel's feedback, so was probably speed reading my way through it - but it wasn't too bad. I normally avoid Next buttons, too. Though it would still require a mouse click or tap, you could have a box/circle/image come up that says "Got It!" or something so users have control over when they move on, maybe. Just a thought. :)

      The only funky thing I experienced was that I answered all of the questions correctly, but at the end my score was "Meh", which seemed to correlate to zero on the meter. Does the scoring work properly for you?

      Anyway - great job! Thanks so much for sharing it.
  • Thanks Matt and Jackie...sorry about the 'cat' - what a great way to get a portfolio together
    • JackieVanNice's avatar
      JackieVanNice
      Super Hero
      Haaa :) He's had more than his share of naps today. He needed the excitement!

      It's the best way EVER to put your portfolio together! Nothing is confidential or proprietary, you're not hemmed in by any creative restrictions, you'll create a wide variety of solutions to share and show off, and it's just plain fun!

      You're going to love it. :)