Examples of Information-Based Courses?

Hi, Raye:

You might checkout "Meeting Missteps" on the Community Showcase. http://www.articulate.com/community/showcase.php

DFL does a good job of presenting straight info in a variety of ways, and I'd say that's the key.

Here's what I do when I have to develop an e-information course:

• Bemoan the fact that I probably should have charged more (few things are tougher than presenting info slide after slide)
• Accept my fate and get down to business--o.k. how visually appealing is the visual look of the course? I'm going to be leaning on my graphic design.
• Use tab-like interactions and the like (timelines, layers) as much as I can without getting too repetitive
• Use video every so often to mix things up
• Present the information in questions rather than always presenting it on a slide or intereaction
• Make sure my voiceover is quite good
• Try to convince the client to put all nice-to-have info in a resource document, and then stick that bad boy up in the Resources tab

Well, that's a start. Hope some of it helps. --Daniel

Raye -

Have you explored the interactive video options? Some that come to mind are: 

• Drag and Drop video loader: http://community.articulate.com/downloads/p/103749.aspx
• Mike Enders: https://player.vimeo.com/video/149070377
• Montse Anderson inspired me with the airport one which you can find in this thread (with some other fun ideas) http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/19380/107870.aspx.

Not sure the feasibility of any of these, but thought I'd throw them your way, in case.

Good luck

I look forward to checking out all these links. Daniel, you seriously made me laugh out loud with your list!

I should also add that I do not create the video, audio, or presentations for any of these events. Basically, I'm given the files and then must figure out a way to package them. The artifacts usually range from 60-90 minutes in length (which makes creating small segments difficult). Think conference-style workshop lecture... 

I had to do something similar - package an hour long presentation to have a quiz and the results tracked in an LMS. I edited the hour long file down to about 40 minutes and into a set of topics, and added buttons to link to each topic. It sounds like you did something similar. I am also adding one fun interactive question after each topic (each video segment), and a review slide at the end summarizing all of the key points just before the quiz. I think I did some basic things to make the session a little more user friendly within the time frame I had to complete the package.

I haven't looked at the links from the other posts. but I plan to check them out.

Ejuana

Raye,

Is it possible for you to create a more "interesting" eLearning experience, perhaps clipping/cutting small portions of the video for the useful learning, and having a "running gag" (but obviously it is not a gag per se....) that is they want to see the whole thing, "...Click here and go to 5 hours 19 minutes and 43 seconds into the video".

Or something...

Treat the video in the same way as we do with a PowerPoint deck of 49282 all-vital SME slides.

We recognise their importance, and give them their own special place in-toto, in the "Resources".

Bruce

PS - COMPLETELY unknown to me, the band I was listening to in the background when I wrote that was Toto...perhaps thereby subconsciously influencing my use of that "in-toto" phrase, which I do not think I have ever used before.