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Ideas for VERY dry content
Hello - I'm very new to e-learning and the Articulate programs. I've used Studio to build my first e-learning module, and just got Storyline. I have now been tasked to create an e-learning module ...
This topic of boring content comes up often for many of us in the field. As outlined above the solutions generally revolve around three key steps. What I will add is that those three steps be taken in this particular order....
- Focus on what you want them to DO, not everything SMEs think they need to KNOW.
- Be relentless in completely removing, or attach as reference only, EVERYTHING that is not minimally required for the what the learner must be able to DO after the training (see #1). This includes focusing only on the 80% situations , not the once in a blue moon situations they won't remember anyways without a job aid/reference.
- Then (and only then), look for fun, interactive, graphical, creative ways to deliver what remains.
Hope this helps!
