Some useful notes on good Instructional Design principles for E-Learning.
Selected bullet points from horton.com/
- Motivate learners
- Provide options on how to learn.
- Ease anxiety.
- Opportunities for meaningful application.
- Do not require learners to keep more than a few items in memory at a time.
- Give opportunities for application & consolidation.
- Ask people to summarize or abstract.
- Practice.
- Give the big picture.
- Never bury something crucial in the middle.
- Show organization visually: org chart, flow chart, etc.
- Avoid paragraphs longer than 3 sentences
- Provide multiple ways for people to learn crucial ideas.
- Use media to focus attention on what you are teaching, never to distract
- Review for cultural issues.
ARCS standard
- attention
- relevance
- confidence
- satisfaction
which is essentially focussed around ensuring that
- the learner's attention is grabbed sufficiently at the beginning of the piece – i.e. WIFM
- the content is relevant for the intended audience
- confidence is achieved through the opportunity within the interactions to practice and repeat
- there is sufficient construvtive feedback throughout and at the end of the learning to make the learner feel that the exercise was worthwhile and they have learned something/
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