"How do you keep elearning engaging?
Perhaps by concentrating on the learning, and not on the technology.
If you want something a bit more substantial than that trite comment, something that you could put to use, you could do worse than download a new 35-page e-booklet called Engaging Interactions for eLearning.
Written by B.J. Schone, a Kansas-based e-learning specialist, Engaging Interactions includes a lot of common sense in its ‘25 Ways to Keep Learners Awake and Intrigued’.
It’s well laid out, it pretty much applies to all learning, not
just e-learning and - best of all - it’s free."I have had a look at the e-booklet and totally agree with the comments. What do you think?
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Keeping e-learning engaging
Below is a direct copy from "Learning technologies 2008" blog
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I think that making learning engaging and motivation is a very important consideration or even principle for online learning.
I think I agree Schone that one of the things that sometimes happens in the oline environment is that people begin to feel isolated or alone disengaged.
One of the ideas for getting this engagement back is to get students to do things rather than just read things.
Social interaction is the other thing that engenders engagement.
Clearly Schone is about "doing" as engagement - and that type of doing might be directed to engaging with the content - In a strange way the social engagement strategies can actually sometimes have nothing to do with the content.
What I am saying is social engagement for social engagement sake seems off task or not "getting the job done" but it does sometimes make people feel less isolated.
What do you (and anyone else) think does it always have to be "on task" engagement. Can we be motivated to look at content and be on task more if occasionally there are purely socially engaging aspects to our online experience? Is social engagement like talking in class and therefore a distraction?
BTW these 25 things were good thanks for telling us about them.
Joanne
A fascinating read with some excellent examples of activities. It certainly made me think about what I had planned for my Assg 2 and made me question the degree of interactivity I had intended. It has given me some ideas to improve the engagement of students. I agree with Schone that there is a fair amount of supposed "elearning" out there which is glorified page turning. I must say my first foray into eLearning was the CISCO Certfied Networking Associate (CCNA)course which I was disappointed in, specifically with the minimal interactivity. It was in a sense page turning with some limited Level II interactivity such as animations and some roll over buttons etc.
Great post - thanks
John
Learning engaging? Of course. Their is no other way for effective learning to take place be it technology based or otherwise. I think that the problem with some e-learning is the mistake that the technology itself is enough to provide the engagement.
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