the instructions and will add the instructions slide to a player tab or a navigation button.
The objectives slide gives learners an overview of the course goals. Usually presented in bullet point format, the list shows actionable objectives the learner should know or be able to do after completing the course.
Objectives do not have to be listed in bullet point format. Often, it’s the client, business partner, or organizational style guide that requires objectives to be presented in list format.
There’s actually a trend in the e-learning industry to find creative alternatives to the bulleted format. Alternatives include scenarios and non-graded quizzes to challenge the learner and create buy-in without specifically listing out the objectives.
Content slides are the meat of your course. These are information slides and include screencasts and videos, scenarios, text and images, charts, and much more. For a consistent look and feel across your course, you should base your content slides on predefined layouts.
Practice activities follow content slides and are intended to help learners to help learners strengthen their skills and knowledge. They should include content presented earlier in the module so learners can apply what they just learned.
Knowledge checks are informal slides at the end of each topic, module, or course, where learners can test their progress during a module. These slides might look like typical quizzes (i.e., true/false, multiple choice, etc.), or take on a more casual format, such as a scenario in which learners must make decisions about what to do in a real-life situation. In most courses, knowledge checks are typically scored but not graded against the final course assessment.
The assessment slide serves as a final assessment of what the learner learned during the course. It may function and feel like the knowledge checks or practice activities, but typically the assessment questions are pulled from all course modules and are usually graded.
Summary slides are usually found at the end of each topic, module, and course. Their purpose is to quickly state the key points from that section before moving on to the next topic or module.
Summary slides are typically presented in bullet point format. They can include links back to specific sections in the module to help learners refresh their understanding of one or more key points.
Resource slides provide post-course support for your learners. These slides are typically found at the end of each topic, module, or course. They can also be included in resource tabs on the player so learners can view them on-demand.
Typical resources included are:
As a course designer, you have unlimited options for combining e-learning elements in your courses. Your experience level, combined with expectations for your course and learners, will influence many of your choices. And if you’re a new e-learning designer, try covering these common elements to start. Good luck! Leave a comment or post in the forums if you have any other questions about these e-learning elements or want to share ideas for combining them in unique ways.
If you are aiming at creating an effective and engaging course, you need to focus on one main aspect: Relevance. Prior to developing the online course, you need to ask yourself whether the course is relevant to your learners. Does the course offer what learners are looking for? Right from designing the GUI to presenting the content, every element you include should address the issue of relevancy.
Relevancy is also important in a way that it decreases the cognitive load on learners because if the data is relevant, it is easy to relate to a learner’s life.
We have always focused on the relevancy and today with my blog post, I would like to share few relevancy ideas that goes a long way in creative an effective eLearning course.
Relevancy idea #1: Focus on clear course objectives:
Being aware of the importance of relevancy, how relevant the course is to your learners should be obvious within a few minutes of your course. Your learners find the course relevan