E-learning Example & Tutorial: How to Fight a Bear and Live

During the recent Articulate User event at Devlearn, Sarah Hodge from SlideSugar shared a really cool example that she built in Storyline. She incorporated the 3D models from PowerPoint to create videos that she added to her e-learning course.

Click here to view the e-learning example.

It’s a great example with some really neat ideas. She also included a quick tutorial to show how she built it. There’s also a free download for practice.

Here are a few key things that stood out to me:

• 3D models are easy to work with in PowerPoint and when output as video, can add some interesting elements to your e-learning courses. Learn to work with 3D models in PowerPoint and bring them into your e-learning courses.
• Pay attention to some of the subtle audio and visual embellishments that she added to her demo such as the fog, background audio, and the water.
• In her tutorial, you notice that she added a hover state for the bear signs and then grouped those with transparent shapes to activate the hover state over the entire bear image and not just on the sign. That’s a clever trick.
• I talk a lot about “touching the screen” as a way to pull people into the course when building interactive e-learning. She has a lot of little things like that, such as getting the bear to roar at the beginning. Explore the ways she gets you to touch the screen.
• The core quiz slide she built (that she covers in the tutorial) could be stripped of content and be saved as a template for re-use. That’s something to consider whenever building custom interactions: how can it be converted to a template for the next project?
• The project is visually cohesive and consistent in it’s structure from section to section and in how animations and visual effects are used.
• When saving 3D videos from PowerPoint to use in Storyline, save them as .WMV and let Storyline convert them to .MP4. Sometimes the last frame seems jagged when using an .MP4 from PowerPoint, but it isn’t the case with .WMV.
• She didn’t use just the 3D bears. See if you can identify other places where she used 3D.

Check out the Grizzly bear demo. What are some things that stood out to you?

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Let's Talk About ISDs in eLearning

You will certainly commonly hear them mention analysis if you listen to techies talking. What they remain in fact talking about is Instructional Systems Style (ISD) which is the certain roadmap a company will make use of to guarantee that their workers are fulfilling their performance goals via finding out supplied in formal, informal as well as nonformal networks. Analysis, Layout, Advancement, Application, and Assessment after which the acronym ADDIE forms, are the crucial pillars of any Instructional Equipments Layout process.

Whether you as the end individual requires an Instructional Design is for a educational or corporate feature, there exist two commonly recognized versions to utilize. Both have a number of variants within them and also the very best will depend on an organization's details requirements. Simply put, an organization that makes use of Instructional System Design (ISD) in educating its labor force is able to easily develop the why, where, who, when as well as what of the whole procedure. This methodical technique to training requirements is a constant reminder to those accountable that training programs as well as pertinent assistance products need to always be efficient and effective to meet the demands of an altering landscape.

For many years, the best concern for trainers was to produce courses that fulfill the requirements of the learner. Here are concepts to work with when developing an instructional systems design;
Fail to remember web content as many people have a tendency to broach in training as well as rather, welcome context. The point of view of an audience must dictate the direction of a training initiative. The end goal below is to make sure that people get training that connects to what they are paid to do. Learners take a lot more from an instructor if they utilize examples as well as stories to show their factor. It is only all-natural that humans remember tales more than they do facts-leverage on this connection point. To cover up the procedure of training system design, motivate social eLearning where individuals develop on their own discovering methods without needing to take a seat for hrs to hear it from a person. Learners will certainly appreciate it much more if you set out the fundamentals and afterwards produce circumstances even outside the training area from where they can fill out the gaps.

With Instructional Design, users can utilize activity mapping as a style tool to aid in the recognition of content type that will certainly cater to learners private performance improvement needs.

What they are in fact referring to is (ISD) which is the details roadmap an organization will certainly make use of to guarantee that their workers are fulfilling their efficiency objectives via discovering supplied in official, informal and nonformal networks. Analysis, Style, Growth, Implementation, and also Analysis after which the acronym ADDIE kinds, are the crucial columns of any Instructional Solutions Layout process.

Whether you as the end user needs an Instructional Equipments Layout is for a academic or corporate function, there exist 2 widely acknowledged designs to use.

3 Reasons to Use Animated GIFs in E-learning

At a recent workshop we discussed the popularity of working animated gifs and how they can be used in e-learning courses. Here are three reasons you can use them in your courses.

Animated Gifs for Novel Visual Design

E-learning courses are still mostly visual. And one part of engaging you learners is to create visually rich experiences. This doesn’t replace instructional design, but it does help make your course look more interesting and contributes to capture the person’s attention.

I love this example created by one of our community managers. She did a great job using animated .gifs to enrich the visuals in her Rise demo. How many animated .gifs do you count in her demo?

Click to view the Rise demo.

Speaking of novelty, in the example below I added an animated gif to a slider that represents the module progress. At a certain point, the state of the slide thumb changes from one waling character to another.

Animated Gifs to Add Humor

One reason animated gifs are so popular is they’re perfect for sharing funny things and memes. And they’re exaggerated with the looping animations. Why not leverage the humor that these offer and work them into your courses? A couple of considerations: many of the gifs probably violate some copyright laws and training isn’t supposed to be funny. Well, maybe it can be funny, but there’s a good chance that regardless of the content someone will complain. If you do use humor, you’ll really want to make sure that it’s appropriate to your audience.

 

Animated Gifs to Show Procedural Steps

The two reasons above are less instructional. This next one fits better with instructional design and training. Use animated gifs to quickly show procedures or steps in a process. If you’re showing steps, it’s good to add some reference points because the content loops and people may not be clear where in the process the steps fall.

Here’s an animated gif that shows the root canal process.

Click here to view the animated gif (19 MB)

And here’s a prototype built in PowerPoint that demonstrates showing four steps.

Animated gifs work well for e-learning courses. If you use them in your courses currently, feel free to share ways that they’re used. In the meantime, check out these previous articles on creating animated gifs:

• How to Create Animated .GIFs for Free
• How to Make Animated Gifs from Video 
• Here Are Some Free Animated Gifs

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