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Share Your Instructional Design Quizzes and Learning Activities #277

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5 years ago

Instructional Design Quizzes and Interactions #277: Challenge | Recap

Formative vs. summative? Pedagogy vs. andragogy? Formal vs. informal? Flipped classrooms? Bloom vs. Gagne vs. Werner? Huh?!? 

When you’re first getting started in e-learning, it’s easy to be confused — and daunted — by the terms floating around the online training industry. It’s hard to sift through the theories, styles, and expert opinions to get to the heart of what you really need to know.

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to e-learning or you’ve been building online training for years. One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. And that’s why this week’s challenge is all about crowdsourcing instructional design interactions!

Challenge of the Week

This week your challenge is to create a quiz or learning activity on an instructional design principle, model, researcher, or theorist.

You can create any type of quiz or practice activity you like. Go with the timeless multiple choice or true-false questions, or create something more playful using a custom quiz. You can make the quiz as simple or challenging as you like… Just keep it fair and practical.

Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..
  • 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.
  • Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you dive into this week’s learning challenge, check out the screencast walkthroughs of popular challenge examples:

Video Walkthroughs of E-Learning Examples RECAP #276: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you an educational week, E-Learning Heroes!

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.



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  • JodiSansone's avatar
    JodiSansone
    Community Member
    Learning Design Kick-Off Guide for Eric
    Demo: https://jodichallenges.s3.amazonaws.com/277+Instructional+Design/index.html#/


    I wasn't sure where this would go, but I have created, in RISE, a kick-off guide for potential clients who are new to learning program development and may have just been thrust into it (like I was 20 years ago).

    I created a guide I could customize and send out to a client as we start scoping out a project. I personalized it for the recipient. It has a little bit of ADDIE, adult learning principles and modified Gagne concepts in it. I thought this might be a good tool to help a new person get an idea of what he/she should expect as we scope out a project together.

    All have a great week!
    • alexjinca's avatar
      alexjinca
      Community Member
      I've learnt a lot from this Jodi, thanks for sharing!
    • CarrieGauthier-'s avatar
      CarrieGauthier-
      Community Member
      Wow, this is fantastic! I've been considering developing something similar for my organization since I've found that many of my SMEs lack any knowledge about ID at all and it can make it difficult to communicate. This may serve as my inspiration to get that project off the ground.

      Seriously, great work!
      • JodiSansone's avatar
        JodiSansone
        Community Member
        Hi Carrie,
        I was thinking if I really wanted to use something like this I would include some sort of worksheet for people to fill out. You can add a RISE block that includes documents for download, or even create some kind of survey for them to respond with a button block. Let me know what you come up with! Glad you liked it.
    • Jonathan_Hill's avatar
      Jonathan_Hill
      Super Hero
      You've made really good use of the Rise format and the conversational, friendly tone is well pitched for this product. As always, great layout and font choices.

      Can I ask what fonts you've used here?
      • JodiSansone's avatar
        JodiSansone
        Community Member
        Oh that heading font is called Museo Sans...one of my clients is using it and it is growing on me. I just loaded it a week ago. The body is in Lora, which is built into RIse. I've been using Rise almost exclusively this last month. I had a meltdown when it went offline for 15 minutes. ;)
    • LonetteRobertso's avatar
      LonetteRobertso
      Community Member
      Loved your activity! It was engaging and well constructed. Thank you for sharing!
    • TamaraStaton's avatar
      TamaraStaton
      Community Member
      I love this, so creative, engaging AND educational, thanks!
  • JodiSansone's avatar
    JodiSansone
    Community Member
    I have an idea for this--tell me if you think this meets the spirit of the challenge. I'm going to create something for new clients who are recently thrust into learning/training for their departments because of Covid-19. I'm thinking of doing a learning design principles quick-guide in Rise to use next week. I've spent the last 3 weeks getting calls like this--tell me if this sounds familiar.

    Client: I hear from Joe you do e-learning. He was really happy with your work. He got promoted.
    Me: Yes, that's right. Great to hear that about Joe.
    Client: I'm in Field Sales and I was just asked to convert our 4-week instructor-led leadership development program into e-learning.
    Me: 4 weeks? Like 20 days? 160 hours of instruction? Into e-learning.
    Client: Yes, it's a very important program. I went through it 2 years ago. It was great. But it needs to be online now.
    Me: OK, let's set up some time to talk about your needs. I'll walk you through some instructional design principles, how I approach projects like this, and how we can scope it out together.
    Client: I know my needs. I need a detailed plan by Thursday and we need to kick it off June 1st.

    (Long pause)

    Me: I think you need to call someone else, because I have three other clients with "needs" like yours.

    (Long pause)

    Client: Ok, we'll do it your way. Send me a calendar invite. I'm open tomorrow from 9:30 to 10.

    • Montsea's avatar
      Montsea
      Super Hero
      I think it's really difficult for new course designers to say "no" to prospects. When you're starting out you want to please and accommodate everyone. Maybe it's not even possible to say "no" until you've been taken for a few rides. Good for you, Jodi. Projects that begin hastily usually are often the ones that never end.
      • JodiSansone's avatar
        JodiSansone
        Community Member
        Boy you said it! I have one like that right now that I started in February--it should have been completed by mid-March. It's a 10 minute course and the revisions on the content are never-ending. I just turned over my 14th version/draft because our client is rethinking each slide, one by one. I'm not the project lead on this one so I just keep processing the changes. I hope it ends soon because I want to make sure I have time to do Challenge #278, with some cats in it. :)
    • Jonathan_Hill's avatar
      Jonathan_Hill
      Super Hero
      Yep, I've heard of others having similar conversations in the current crisis.

      Jodi, anything you could produce that puts across what Instructional Designers do, quickly, succinctly and in a way that changes the behaviour of clients, would not only fit this week's brief, but perform an important service!
    • alexjinca's avatar
      alexjinca
      Community Member
      Fun and engaging, I was focused on building a robot as well :)
    • Jonathan_Hill's avatar
      Jonathan_Hill
      Super Hero
      Thanks for the suggestion Sam - demo now updated with a review content feature.
  • TeoKar's avatar
    TeoKar
    Community Member
    Hm it seems that I had inside information about this challenge or something this time because I created this project yesterday not for a client but just for fun ! It is not about the game it is about the tutorial that gives a few ID tips about its creation , some learning theories and learning strategies as well

    Here is my game followed by the tutorial
    Play the 🛸 Space Adventure about Comparative and Superlative Adjectives here:

    https://bit.ly/3cb0SLR

    At the link below you can read more about the game's pedagogical background.:

    http://educraft.tech/spaceadventure
    • Samuel's avatar
      Samuel
      Community Member
      A well timed challenge is the best! Cool use of graphics and overall theme.
    • CarrieGauthier-'s avatar
      CarrieGauthier-
      Community Member
      Love this! The design is super clean and it's easy for me to go back and review content if needed. Great job!
    • Jonathan_Hill's avatar
      Jonathan_Hill
      Super Hero
      Lovely - Gagné really lends itself well to a 3x3 grid and this is clean and easy to follow and much less silly than my overview of the same theory!