Methods and media; acquirements strategies; architecture processes, and personality, ethics and culture, are the four stages in creating able and agreeable e-learning, believes e-learning artist ‘guru’, Patrick Dunn. Addressing the affair of ‘designing agreeable e-learning’, Dunn explained his appearance at a meeting, in London, of the eLN - a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning association for the e-learning community.
Dunn’s presentation was one of seven presentations on this affair to eLN members. Held in London, these affairs action associates not alone a adventitious to become abreast about, and discuss, the latest tips and techniques in the e-learning apple but aswell to arrangement with added users and developers of e-learning.
Membership of the eLN now stands at over 1,500 – and, afterwards some 20 years of accepting a ‘UK-only’ organisation, it now numbers several associates who are based alfresco the UK. The affair at which Dunn spoke, for example, admiring assembly from Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic as able-bodied as from the UK.
Dunn who, a allotment of added things, has formed for e-learning companies in the US and UK as able-bodied as for PricewaterhouseCoopers, holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, an MSc in Networked Learning and a music amount from Oxford University. As anyone who has been designing, bearing and cerebration about assorted forms of acquirements technology back the aboriginal 1980s, he explained that, in the seek for added interactivity, acquirements designers tend to body pictures, action and so on into their programmes.
He observed: “Although we assume to apperceive the answers to authoritative e-learning added agreeable we aren’t applying them. That’s apparently because there aren’t abundant trained, accomplished acquirements designers and because designers abridgement simple applied accoutrement to advice them.”
Dunn proposed an acronym – ‘CREAM’ – to awning the key appearance architecture assurance with acquirements materials: control, relevance, emotion, action and ‘multi-sensory environment’ (using a aggregate of video, audio, graphics, action and so on). He said: “If you accord learners ascendancy of their learning, you accomplish the acquirements acquaintance accordant to them – enabling them to acknowledgment the catechism ‘what’s in it for me?’ at every akin of the learning.
“You charge to be acquainted of the amount of affect – application ball and stories, humour, abruptness and ‘controlled safe failure’ to appoint with learners on an affecting level,” he continued. “You charge to get learners to crop action – but accepting them to bang a button to get added advice does not calculation as ‘action’.
“Engaging e-learning is about the adapted use of methods and media – but it’s alone a baby allotment of the answer,” he said. “For example, acquirements strategies – top akin plans, based on the attempt of learning, about how to change humans and break learners’ achievement problems - could cause humans to change. Methods and media may be the approach acclimated but afterward a acquirements action is important to developing agreeable e-learning because learners are antipathetic of abominably advised acquirements abstracts that decay their time.
“The architecture processes are aswell key,” he continued. “A abundant accord of e-learning is debris is because those who aftermath it anticipate of it as ‘engineering’ rather than ‘art’.
“We charge to architecture ‘experiences’ not agreeable – because humans apprentice from experiences, not from content. Designers charge to accept the acquirements problem; how learners charge to change; what acquaintance may accompany about this change, and what agreeable is bare to abutment this experience.
“Designers are declared to activate with achievement objectives; use these to acquire acquirements objectives; again devise the acquirements strategy, finally, the acquirements tactics,” Dunn explained.
“However, abounding designers generally about-face this process. That is ‘good design’: it’s accepted and fluid.
“It can be a absolute advice to activate by developing a prototype,” he said. “This provides something ‘concrete’ for appraisal and about which to anatomy opinions.
“This is about ability and values, not just the action associated with bearing acquirements materials. Prototype-driven cultures are bigger able to accomplish what added humans charge and want.
“So, agreeable e-learning is complete application fluid, accepted user-focused processes,” he stated.
Finally, Dunn alien the affair of ‘culture and personality’. He explained that accumulated cultures abide on several levels, including ‘representations and symbols’, ‘norms and behaviours’ and, at the amount of the organisation, ‘beliefs and assumptions’.
“If an organisation’s behavior and assumptions don’t abutment ‘fun’, agreeable e-learning, it won’t aftermath or use it – behindhand of what it says,” Dunn observed. “So, as a designer, you charge to accept the organisational characteristics that animate or anticipate developing agreeable e-learning.
“So, agreeable e-learning is body by organisations with adapted cultural ethics – and by humans with a ‘design orientation’,” Dunn said.
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