Suppose you are assigned to conduct a training program on sales process for your telesales representatives. You need to develop content for the course and at the end of the course you would also like to assess if the training was successful. Where do you start?
Designers have a responsibility to support the content (text), with relevant graphics in a creative way. Irrelevant visuals can divert learning while decorative visuals could increase mental load. Therefore, a visual designer needs to be very particular, when choosing graphics for a course.
Audio narrations are one of the most important components of an eLearning course. The same is true in the case of audio for your PowerPoint presentation, particularly if it is being published online. Most of us create PowerPoint presentations and prepare an audio script, so that it serves us as a guideline during face to face presentations. If we were to publish the presentation online, so that more number of people benefit from it, will the audio script that was prepared for classroom training be sufficient? Would it capture the imagination and attention of online viewers, the same way as it had during the classroom presentation?
Instructional designers would have heard this term a number of times while designing an e-learning course. Interactivity, is one of the most common expectations that a client has, while attending an e-learning course. Moreover, clients are of the opinion that without interactivity, an e-learning course would only be a page turner, like a book. Therefore, to meet client expectations and to engage the learner to maximize learning, instructional designers have to make judicious use of interactivity while designing an e-learning course.
If you are the training manager or project manager responsible for implementing a major software roll out, you could consider using eLearning courses with simulations as they are the best way to train learners to use Software Applications. Let us see why courses with simulations work best for software applications training.
