![]() I usually recommend placing the learner in a situation where they need to make decisions relevant to what you want the course to accomplish. Keep in mind that changing how you present the information doesn’t mean that you offer less or water down your course content. By using a linear approach you hinder your options and possibly make the course less effective. It requires more than just presentation of information. While an experienced learner might get too much information, you run the risk that a new learner doesn’t get enough or the right information.ĭon’t make your course linear. This is valuable because a more traditional elearning course treats each learner the same. If they don’t already know it, you can direct them to the place in the course where they will get the information they need. If they already know it, why force them to look at screen-after-screen of useless information. What’s relevant is that they know the information well enough to demonstrate understanding. Whether the learner looks at a screen or not is irrelevant. Let the learners prove what they understand. You’re assessing them on buying the right products on the list. You’re not assessing them on how they shopped. If you send them to the store and they come back in 10 minutes (because they already knew where everything was located) or an hour later (because they needed to orient themselves) it makes no difference. Give the learners a shopping list (performance expectations) and let them do the shopping. The shelves are filled with all sorts of items. Think of your course content like a supermarket. ![]() You’ll build more effective elearning courses. I recommend focusing on the learner’s understanding of the content rather than whether or not they’ve been exposed to information. However, if you want to produce results, then locking the player is probably not the best solution. You need that report to measure your success. If the goal is to put a course online so that at the end of the year you can produce a report of people who’ve taken elearning courses, then locking the course makes sense. The key is to focus less on delivery of information and more on collecting evidence of the learner’s understanding.įocus on understanding. The other is about assessing the learner’s ability to process that information. One part of the course is about information that the learner needs. □ For those of you who want out of the course navigation dilemma, here are a few ideas. There are even some of you who think I’m a boob and that there’s nothing wrong with locking navigation. It doesn’t matter what you say or want to do, you will be forced to lock your course navigation because that’s what your client demands. In the mean time, what can be done about this navigation issue? ![]() I wrote a letter to President Obama asking for his intervention. We see it in almost every learning environment.Īs far as the regulatory stuff, I decided to take things into my own hands. While it is true that there are a lot of regulations that cover training, I haven’t ever actually seen a regulation that says “in order for your employees to be trained, it is required that the navigation in your elearning courses be locked.” If anything there should be a regulation to protect employees who might get hurt falling asleep while viewing an elearning course like that.Īnother rationale behind locking navigation is that “it’s the only way to ensure that the learner gets all of the information.” On the surface that makes sense because so many of our learning experiences are based on information being dumped in our laps. The two most common are that some sort of regulation requires it or we want to make sure that the learner doesn’t skip through the course.Īs far as a regulation that requires locking the navigation, I’m not really convinced that’s entirely true. ![]() There are various reasons that we give for locking navigation. It’s worth revisiting because it’s still one of the questions I’m most frequently asked. A while back we looked at unlocking the player navigation to make better elearning courses.
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