Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling - 1 views
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"All that is clicky-clicky bling-bling does not make for an effective learning experience."
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s a load of elearning junk
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It's just shiny wrapping paper covering up a pair of crummy socks with holes in them.
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" Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer in the industry classic e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, explain that seductive details are "interesting but irrelevant material added to a multimedia presentation in an effort to spice it up
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Seductive details are those elements in a program that draw you in, attract the eye and engage the brain. They seduce your interest, but distract from the main point.
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It's interactive! It's intriguing! But it's exhausting, and let's face it"—there's no point. Fatigue sets in and you move on
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This is the premise underlying the arousal theory, the idea that entertaining and interesting embedded effects cause learners to become more emotionally aroused and therefore they work harder to learn the material.
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. Designers who don't understand the basics of effective instructional design are committing what Clark Quinn of Quinnovation calls "instructional design malpractice.
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CCBB design shines and sparkles wildly in the sun
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When we force learners to practice without context, they've memorized facts but may not be able to apply them correctly in context.
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Too much clicking can lead to learner fatigue, is distracting to the learner, and doesn't promote deeper understanding
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We need to provide more contextual opportunities for drill exercises that will help the learner both retain and apply the knowledge they are practicing.
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"Well-written, multiple-choice questions teach and assess knowledge within the context of a game. Poor questions simply allow the gamer to play the game without learning.
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that the addition of interesting yet unimportant augmentations can divert learners from learning the main points that are being made
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. You're best served to spend your time designing the right type of course and spending less time looking for ways to 'jazz it up'"
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. Now, take a look at the screen and see where your eye lands first. Is it the flashing Next button in the bottom right corner? Or is it the important content bit at the center of the screen? Ask an objective outsider to take a look, too
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Pilot your program with some test learners
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heck in with them immediately afterwards, one week, three weeks. See what they remembe
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, don't take this to mean that elearning shouldn't look good.
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What about your LMS? At Kineo, where I work, we love using Moodle and Totara as an LMS solution for our clients, not only because of the great features and the fact that it's open source, but always because we can make it look like almost anythin
