So many e-learning courses are just online content. I always think of self directed learning through pages of online text and images as not ‘e-learning’ but an ‘online course’. You have to be pretty motivated to worth through all of it and feel like it added value to your life.
One of this year’s industry partnership projects has been to develop an e-learning course for the coal seam gas sector on surface water management. It is mostly legislation and stuff, and unless this floats your boat, can be pretty boring.
You can read about this project here:
One of the initial pages for learning looked like:
NWP415 legislation
Another 20 pages of this stuff would have sent an insomniac to sleep.
While the project is to use innovation learning tools that might enjoy bigger bandwidths under the National Broadband Network, the reality is all learning technology must be relevant to the learning, not driven by the technology.
To make loads of text interesting to the learner we used a combination of presentation tools. Prezi (read my previous post on this), video and text-to-speech animation programs.
One of our favourite text-to-speech animation programs is Crazy Talk. With a text alternative for accessibility, this brings life to your long text.
NWP415 Crazy Talk
You need to use around 3 different voices and images though or it might end up like a meditation track 🙂
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