Characters add a special appeal to eLearning courses. They can be used to showcase scenarios or situations that learners come across in their day-to-day lives. Let’s say you are developing a course that explains the recruitment process involving several individuals within the organization. You have two options. You can refer to the different people involved in the recruitment process by their positions such as the HR manager, Hiring manager and so on. Alternatively, you can develop a fictitious character with a fictitious name for each individual – Linda, the HR manager or Bob, the hiring manager. Characters relate to the learners and help them in assimilating the content better. Here are some tips on using characters in eLearning.

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Instructional strategy largely depends on the target audience. Instructional designers need to understand their target audience and their learning preferences before designing courses. In this post, let’s explore how adult learners differ from child learners.

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Breaking long strings of information into bite sized absorbable pieces is known as chunking. When the long strings are broken into small chunks, it helps the learner to prioritize, organize and identify the core elements. Chunking is a technique course designers use to break information and then reorder the learning modules into chunks that make sense. This plays an important role while creating an eLearning course.

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Storyboarding is a technique that is used to provide an overview of the course. A storyboard helps SMEs to review the content and guides the production team in creating the course. It was first used at Walt Disney studios to create their famous animated movie in 1930. In its most basic form a storyboard consists of a series of visuals which when arranged in a sequence, convey a story. Today the storyboard concept is widely used in web designing, instructional design and in advertising industry.

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When designing eLearning courses, instructor designers need to do a thorough analysis of their target audience i.e., the learners. The course design largely depends on the type of audiences. Let’s see how the audience profile, age group, educational background, job experience or the learners’ proficiency in using computers influence the course design.

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