New to e learning design

One technique I use is to pepper my courses with knowledge checks - mini-quizzes. Occasionally I will use some levity: interrupt a particularly dry series of slides with a jarring sound and graphic (e.g. screeching brakes and a Stop sign) and ask the user to click an image of a sleeping person to "wake" them up.

If you think the course is going to be too long you can create it in sections so the learner can complete bite sized learning interactions verses one massive course. (I may be taking my own advice in one of the courses I recently created )

I'm in the same boat Leanne, and only down the road from you! I've just completed a refresh of our General Insurance Code of Practice course, and there's no getting away from it...it's very information heavy.

As Dan and Danielle said, I broke it down into sections and added knowledge checks at the end of each section. I found it quite difficult to make it interactive, but add in some tab and timeline interactions to break things up a little. Maybe include some clickable images to show bits of info too. There's some great examples in the Downloads section to get you going.

Thanks for tips and hints guys, I will certainly be putting them into practice

Cheers

Don't forget to consider to split this content heavy course into several e-Learning module.

Sometimes, several small e-learning course is better than 1 heavy course

Maybe you can use scenarios instead of just projecting information at the learner?

I am also currently building a compliance course for a client, and I have used this technique. Ie. as the work their way through the scenario, they find the information they need. It means that they are exposing the information for themselves, rather than just being fed the content and then tested on it? 

You can then still use little quizzes as Dan suggested, which would make it a really interactive course.

I think the question of making compliance courses more interesting has come up a few times, you might find this and this thread useful too :)

Hello Leeane, 

I would recommend taking a look through my blog for some creative options you may find helpful in your first development project:

The link to Gaming in Training is here - Gaming in Training Blog.

One issue here may be corporate culture.

Just because we want to use games/sound effects etc. the Insurance Market, (IMHO) can be very conservative, and these concepts may not even be starters. Let us know how it goes.