Would you survive a 1912 physiology exam?
Hi everyone, I'm so excited for this challenge because this is my first project with Storyline 360. Take a look at my project. 👉 Would you survive a 1912 physiology exam? This challenge reminds me of the time at university, when I crammed all night to learn all the scientific terms and mechanisms to pass those biology and physiology tests. 😅 For this test, I don't want it to be too formal with no multiple choice and no instant feedback. Thus, I decided to add some interactivities with witty feedback and instant results. I also applied Bloom's Taxonomy to classify the questions. Feel free to share any thoughts or feedback! Happy to hear from you!Stop Answering Questions. Start Redesigning Them.
This week's E-Learning Heroes challenge dropped a fascinating artifact in our laps: the 1912 Bullitt County Schools eighth-grade final exam. And everyone's first instinct was the same: could I pass this thing? And honestly — maybe not. There's a grammar question asking students to write a single sentence containing four specific grammatical elements simultaneously. There's compound interest math done by hand. There's a civics question — "What is the proper basis of civil government?" — with no word limit, no rubric, and apparently no fear of what a fourteen-year-old might actually write. It's a fascinating artifact. And the obvious eLearning move would be to modernize it into an assessment. Swap the open-ended questions for multiple choice. Add a scenario. Slap on some feedback. Done. I went a different direction. What if the learner was the designer? Instead of asking people to answer the 1912 questions, we asked them to redesign them. Pick a question. Tag the instructional design strategies you'd apply — scenario-based, cause-and-effect, perspective-taking, transfer task, twenty options in total. Watch a live compatibility meter tell you whether your combination is a strong pairing or a bit of an overcrowded mess. Then get feedback: a scorecard rating your approach on cognitive load, authenticity, and transfer potential, plus a specific strength, a push-it-further nudge, and one genuinely hard reflective question to sit with. And at the end — a before/after reveal comparing the original 1912 question to an expert redesign, so you have something concrete to react to, agree with, or argue against. The whole thing runs in a single HTML file embedded in Rise via a Code Block. No frameworks, no dependencies. Why this framing works Most eLearning about instructional design is passive. You read about Bloom's taxonomy. You watch someone explain cognitive load theory. You take a quiz about it afterward. This puts you in the seat. You make a call — I'm going to apply scenario-based learning and cause-and-effect framing to this arithmetic problem — and then you get a mirror held up to that decision. The compatibility meter alone has a way of making you pause and ask whether you're building a coherent design rationale or just stacking strategies because they sound good. The 1912 exam is the perfect raw material for this because the questions are so far from modern practice that every design decision feels deliberate. You can't default to habit. You have to think. Give it a try below and let me know — which question did you pick, and did the compatibility meter surprise you? Built with Articulate Rise 360 and Claude by Anthropic. Stop Answering Questions. Start Redesigning Them.Share Your Force-Filled Star Wars E-Learning Templates and Examples #262
Star Wars Quizzes, Games, and Activities #262: Challenge | Recap Challenge of the Week This week, your challenge is to share a Star Wars-themed interaction. You can design any type of interaction you like as long as it’s related to Star Wars. Here are a few ideas to help you get started: History of Star Wars timeline Who shot first? Star Wars leadership styles Star Wars quizzes Build a droid game Star Wars name generator Last Week’s Challenge: Before you force your way through this week’s challenge, check out the creative ways your fellow challengers use interactive dials and knobs to build infographics in e-learning: Using Dials for Interactive Infographics #261: Challenge | Recap Wishing you a force-tastic 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.Share Your Instructional Design Quizzes and Learning Activities #277
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.
