Creating an E-learning course that is effective means it has to be complete. Otherwise, you might not be able to meet your goals. You need to understand that putting effort into your training initiatives does not simply mean that you will create a learning program, implement it and then leave it at that. There are a couple of things that your course needs to have before you can really say that it is ready for implementation. When your course is incomplete, your learners might not get what is intended for them and your whole program would have failed and your efforts be made for nothing.
While the completeness of your course will depend on the content, there are 3 important characteristics that you need to identify to ensure that it will be effective.
Practicality
First of all, your E-learning course will have to be practical in the sense that it is able to meet not just what the learner’s need, but also what they want. If you give them what they need, you just satisfied the goal of the training program. If you also give the learners what they want, that means your course is made in such a way that it satisfies the expectations of the learners too. Make sure you have both wants and needs in mind as you create the course.
Enjoyability
The next factor is how the learners enjoy the course. We have mentioned that learners should be able to finish the program feeling like their wants have been satisfied. This is one way of doing that. You have to make the course enjoyable. This can be done through various activities. A purely theoretical learning is not always the one that has the highest retention rate. It is the courses that contains activities that will allow learners to recall experiences and not just the texts. When you incorporate the lessons in the activities, you can expect that learners will be more than able to retain the information that will fuel the skills that is needed from the course.
The last factor is how the course involves the inputs and actions of the learners. When you are creating an E-learning course, you have to make sure that it allows your learners to contribute to the improvement of the course. While it may not be for their benefit, it will be for future learners who will undergo the same training. There is no better critic for your course but those who actually went through it. To maximize the ability of your learners to critique your course, you have to make sure that your activities will allow them to be immersed in whatever it is that you are trying to teach them.
The success of your E-learning course will be translated into the skills and output that the learners will exhibit in their workplace. Not only will the skills increase, the confidence of the learners will do so too. With confidence comes competence. These improvements will allow them to approach their respective tasks more efficiently and effectively.
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