So, the question is:
How can we turn boring topics into engaging ones in eLearning
Keep the eLearning course short
The problem with most boring eLearning topics is that they are too long. Lengthy content and the large quantity of information could make the course boring albeit the course being beautiful and interactive with lots of activities and fun.
Try to keep your elearning courses as short as possible without omitting crucial pieces of information.
To do so, you need to start by highlighting the necessary and basic information. This way, you can keep track of what the learners really need to learn instead of giving them chunks of elearning content.
Keep deleting unnecessary or optional information as well as redundant examples.
Make eLearning courses relevant
No one wants to study something that they will not need later on in their career or life. Content that includes irrelevant information often makes the course boring and uninteresting.
Such eLearning courses would fail to inspire your learners. In turn, the learners will lose focus. You need to keep your eLearning content as relevant as possible to prevent this from happening
To do so, you need to make a connection between the nature of a given topic and its necessity later on. This connection needs to be expressed from the beginning so that the learners won’t lose interest or miss any important piece of information.
You can simply tell them how important the topic is concerning a given situation in a future career or life event. This way, the learners will feel the importance of the course and engage more.
Use clickable images
It is always good to use images in a given eLearning course to get rid of boredom. This is why textbooks with images turn to be way more effective and less boring than the ones without.
But what is better, is to implement clickable images. This way, the learner will have the freedom to choose what to click on and what to ignore.
Use inter-activities
Engage your learners with activities that force them to interact with the content. Interactivity changes the uni-directional learning process into an engaging, and entertaining knowledge sharing activity.
Use various options, like interactive quizzes/videos or drag and drop activities to enrich your courses.
With Wizcabin, creating interactivity is as easy as creating a normal page. You can create all types of inter-activities including, drag and drop activity, clickable hot-spots and interactive quizzes with just few mouse clicks.
Enliven you courses with graphic design
How your elearning course looks is as important as how you process the content. Ensure your course has awesome design, that attracts the learners. Use colors that match your learning style and, try layouts and templates that makes it easy for the users to go through the content.
Wizcabin provide a great asset library and lots of templates and layouts that would make it easy for anyone to create awesome looking elearning courses.
With wizcabin design wizard, anyone without any design or development skill can easily create beautiful courses that not only attract your learners but also make your eLearning course more engaging and entertaining.
From the above points, it seems fair to say that there is a variety of options to turn any boring eLearning topic into an interesting and engaging one.
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