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With some regularity, we encounter the situation where a training manager in a company has enthusiastically set to work developing the digital learning materials (e-learning) to train his employees. One of the most obvious tools often resorted to is PowerPoint. This program offers many opportunities to present content attractively and is a standard part of the office package.
After many hours of diligent work and fiddling with animations and transitions, it turns out that an amazing lively presentation has been developed. Each slide is more beautiful than the next, but...... it is not an interactive e-learning. That makes sense, because a presentation is also meant to offer content.
However, the goal of interactive e-learning goes a step further: the content offered must be processed in the brain. Only then can the learner remember the knowledge and apply it at another time or in a particular situation. To process content, the learner must be "activated." You have to make him think, for example, by making him solve a problem.
Interactive e-learning activates the learner. Good e-learning includes as much interactive e-learning as possible.
Good e-learning is full of "instructional strategies": the tools and methods you use in a training course to ensure that a student actually learns. A good example is the use of intermediate questions.
Whether a strategy is right or wrong depends mainly on how and when it is applied: for example, the use of video can be very powerful if a student needs to learn how to assemble an engine block. In that case, the condition is that the trainee can practice while watching the video with a digital simulation of the engine block or a real engine block standing in front of him.
Choosing appropriate strategies is an educational skill and is part of the educational development process. Using a particular strategy is a choice based on the following questions:
Developing e-learning is a lot of fun, but it's a profession. Our consultants are happy to help you get started. Contact us at info@precongroup.com or +31 30 65 66 010
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