Asking vs. Telling: Creating Interactive E-Learning #455

David Anderson
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Push vs. Pull: Creating Interactive E-Learning #455

Push vs. Pull E-Learning #455: Challenge | Recap

As e-learning designers, we all want to make our courses engaging and interactive. No one sets out to build boring courses. At the same time, it's no secret that a lot of courses fall into the trap of just throwing information at learners. 

So, what's the solution? Do you have to create more content? Actually, no—you can simply reframe how you structure your existing content and make it more interactive. It's not rocket science; it just requires a little more pulling than pushing. And that's what this week's challenge is all about.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share a before-and-after example that shows how push-based courses can be reworked into more pull-based interactions.

For context and more info, check out this blog post from Tom on push vs. pull e-learning.

Keep in mind that you don’t need to build anything overly complex or technical. What’s most important is the concept and showing how static content can be made more interactive using asking or pulling techniques.

🧰 Resources & Related Challenges

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start a new 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 to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure.
  • Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you pull this week’s challenge entry together, check out the dynamic ways to combine all three variable types in e-learning:

22 Dynamic Ways to Use All Three Types of Variables in E-Learning RECAP #454

Using Variables in E-Learning RECAP #454: Challenge | Recap

👋 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 challengesanytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.

📅 Next Week’s Challenge

  • Challenge #456 (04.05): Chunky fonts. This week we're stepping away from the default fonts and playing with heavy, bold, and thick fonts, to create eye-catching headlines, titles, and whatever else you can imagine. 

🚨 Contact Information

Just a quick heads up – if you want your blog, website, or LinkedIn included in our recap posts, could you do me a favor and add or update those links onto your ELH profile sometime this week?

I found some broken links last week when I pulled the recap together. You spend a lot of time building creative examples, and your work deserves all the attention it can get.

If you make changes, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks!

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34 Comments
Jodi M. Sansone
29 days ago03/31/24 at 10:11 pm (UTC)
Situational Coaching After Demo: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/455+Push+to+Pull/story.html Before Demo: https://jodichallenges.s3.amazonaws.com/230+Situational+Leadership/story_html5.html I looked at an old challenge (#230) on the topic of situational leadership. I tried to provide learners a chance to contribute their thoughts and give them more options for maneuvering around and choosing what information they wanted to see and use. I employed the notes panel in the player as a way to serve up additional information, if needed by the learner.
Jayashree Ravi
28 days ago04/01/24 at 12:26 pm (UTC)
In this example, we'll explore onboarding at a fictional company. Employees need to understand core values. We'll illustrate Push and Pull methods. Push: A simple slide lists values. It's clear but lacks engagement. Pull: Branching scenarios immerse employees in real-life situations, where they make decisions based on values. This hands-on approach boosts understanding and retention. Comparing Push (slides) to Pull (scenarios) shows how interactivity enhances learning, ensuring employees truly grasp the company's core values. Demo link - https://360.articulate.com/review/content/7ae3701d-f5ba-4ddd-ab68-e6686ccd66d3/review
Mary Tesch
10 days ago04/19/24 at 3:54 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for sharing your project, I’m really impressed by how interactive the learning was. I’m currently working on a project for a product launch, and the content can be quite dry. I was reviewing the forums for some inspiration and came across this thread about Push vs. Pull E- Learning. The prior product launches my team has conducted were mostly Push, your example gives me some ideas of what I can do to make it more interactive (a Pull e-learning)! I do have a few questions for you, is there a way to replay the initial video or scenario once users reach the question-and-answer page? Also, it looks like may have used Vyond for the video but how did you insert the questions? Was it something that you built in Storyline or was there another program you used?
Jayashree Ravi
9 days ago04/20/24 at 7:44 am (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback, Mary! I'm glad you found the project interactive. To address your questions, yes, we can incorporate a playbar or a menu page for the values videos to allow learners to revisit them. I created the videos using Vyond and integrated them into Articulate Storyline. After the videos, I added questions and choices directly within Storyline, followed by correct and incorrect slide videos based on the choices. You can use triggers in Storyline to control the playback of the video. Please connect with me on LinkedIn in case you have more questions or need further assistance. Thank you again for your interest and feedback!
Chloe Okura
27 days ago04/03/24 at 5:17 am (UTC)
Hi everyone! For this challenge, I adapted a project that I recently completed. In the original push-based course, learners were led through three sequential lessons. The pull-based version allows learners to choose the order of the lessons, and a true/false variable will change the status on the home menu after completing each section. This was a great challenge to rethink the ways learners will want to approach the material; what will they need more, guidance or freedom? Demo Link: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/474df8f7-74e9-494e-badf-10510a011748/review
Tra Nguyen
26 days ago04/03/24 at 2:29 pm (UTC)
Hey there, I'm excited to share a project with you all that aims to make organizing your fridge a breeze! Instead of simply telling you what temperature to set your fridge at or which foods belong inside or outside (the Push method), I've taken the Pull method. I've added interactive drag-and-drop activities that provide feedback as you complete them, along with a fun gamified challenge at the end. Demo link: https://fridge-tralxd.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/story.html Writeup: https://tralxd.com/fridge-safety-guideline/
Sneha Sivaprakash
25 days ago04/04/24 at 12:22 pm (UTC)
Hello! Here's my take on this week's challenge. I've applied the pull concept to create the skeleton for a refresher course on time management by giving learners the liberty to access topics as per their preference by turning an hourglass ⌛. However, learners are required to complete an assessment based on realistic scenarios to truly master key concepts. I believe a right mix of push and pull always works great. https://storage.googleapis.com/snehaselearningprojects/Maximising%20Minutes/story.html
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