Make Your Elearning Course Design Work. 

Effective and successful e-learning is the goal of every course designer. But if you ask most learners, those two words don't immediately come to mind when describing the experience of taking an eLearning course.

Not all e-learning is terrible, but there are too many examples of it. And, as most learners will tell you, these bad examples are boring. Usually deadly boring. So what can you do in your eLearning course design to ensure that it works and is successful for both your learners and the organizations they work for? Most eLearning course designers want to make eLearning interesting and engaging, and many use interaction creation tools and multimedia to achieve this.

At first glance, this seems like a good solution. After all, having your learners do something every few screens in your course is definitely better than just having them read the content, right? At first. However, the problem with this approach is that learners get bored quickly. For example, dragging and dropping objects on the screen may seem fun and interesting the first few times, but after you've done it 20 times, it doesn't seem so clever anymore.

In fact, it doesn't take long for students to realize that the use of multimedia and interaction is actually just a means to hide a deeper problem: too much emphasis on content.

Course designers have many options when creating in-person training. Creating imaginative classroom exercises and activities is relatively easy when you know you have a group of people who can engage and interact with each other. For instructional designers, a blank computer screen is a much bigger challenge. How can you make this screen interesting and appealing to learners without spending a lot of money or requiring months of development time? You'll probably take the current traditional method and fill the screen with content, then add images, graphics, interactions, etc. to make it more appealing and interesting. If you choose this approach (and most designers do), you'll quickly find yourself needing to properly organize and structure your many content screens. Without realizing it, you'll quickly be drawn into a content-centric development approach.

If you follow this path, you will be able to create online equivalents of his famous books and high-quality PowerPoint presentations. Both end results may look very professional and attractive, but they are unlikely to lead to effective learning.

Rather, eLearning course designers should shift their attention away from highly structured content with added multimedia content and interactions and instead create meaningful, scenario-driven content that is memorable and motivating for learners. It would be wiser to focus on developing a type of learning approach.

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