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Classroom to Online: Considerations Cont...
Excerpt from 162 Tips and Tricks for Working with e-Learning tools
e-Learning Guild ebooks
- E-Learning delivery is different from classroom delivery. Don't just record your slides and voice and call it e-Learning. Consider that instead of one session with your content, learners may want to come back to it multiple times. This means that they should control the timing and flow of the content - not you.
- Each learner learns differently. it is important to provide multiple presentations of the same material so that the user can find their own best path, and can resort to a different presentation if they didn't fully understand your first explanation. Include tests, examples, etc. Narrated text is almost as passive as a movie. Test questions are the most active way to engage the learner.
- If you stick to standards like basic Web ones, you'll have much less trouble delivering your content to people using different devices. Keep in mind that not everyone uses MS-Internet Explorer on a high-resolution screen with the latest Flash, Video, and Audio plug-ins. People may be coming to your content on an older laptop computer, or a cell phone.
- Minimize use of "eye-candy" (flying bullets and dancing pigs). While these are a lot of fun to create, they are terribly distracting to the learners. Students should be able to quickly access the content multiple times. If you have flying bullets and videos, will this slow down their ability to see the content of interest?"
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