Engaging learners is the essential challenge that faces designers of e-learning. Regardless of content or technology, there is no hope for meaningful and memorable experiences that create performance change unless designers can reliably and actively engage the learner’s mind in true learning events. That translates into designing Instructional Interactivity.
This session is an introduction to those design elements that create meaningful interactions. The typical questioning supported by many design models and the primary features of the leading authoring tools lead to boring modules that highlight the trivial and fail to have any lasting impact. Instead, impactful contexts, authentic challenges, powerful gestures and actions, and informative and supportive feedback are the design elements that lead to success. We’ll expose these powerful ideas and illustrate their significance through a number of examples drawn from the training programs of major corporations.