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Combatting Content Overload in eLearning: Strategies for Dealing with Too Much Content

IT Training Department Blog

Once you’re at a place where you’ve cut everything anything unnecessary out of a course, it’s time to go back and cut some more. If any content in an eLearning course doesn’t directly help one of those three things then you’re doing it wrong. You’re creating a course about what employees need to do.

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The Suspenseful Season Finale of Training

Association eLearning

But it doesn’t usually plant any burning questions in their mind. Instead of thinking of modules/topics, think of the pieces of your course as episodes. Performance support – Any job aids, reference guides, troubleshooting directions, tools, etc. It frequently dumps information on the learner, telling them all sorts of things.

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A defence of the “Next” button

E-Learning Provocateur

Hell-bent on avoiding the “Next” button, many instructional designers will delinearise the content by creating a course homepage with a raft of topics represented by funky icons. While I broadly agree with the constructivist sentiment of this approach, I can’t help but think it’s a band-aid for a much deeper issue.

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Course Material: Tackling It Like a Pro

Association eLearning

Well, there are a few methods you can add to your design routine to aid you in creating an optimal course. First, you need to learn about the course material. Learning About the Course Material. Read up about the organization you are creating the course for. You might want to cite them in the course. .

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

Hence the layman term “burn out”. As a general rule, learners are able to relearn information more easily than learning the subject matter for the first time. However, forgetting will slow down over the course of time. The trouble begins when these signals have been a steady supply for the past 12 – 14 hours.

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A defence of the “Next” button

E-Learning Provocateur

Hell-bent on avoiding the “Next” button, many instructional designers will delinearise the content by creating a course homepage with a raft of topics represented by funky icons. While I broadly agree with the constructivist sentiment of this approach, I can’t help but think it’s a band-aid for a much deeper issue.

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5 Considerations Before Choosing an LMS

eLearning Brothers

Lastly, there are some that are simply looking for a central place to store their training courses. Are all your courses published for the xAPI (TinCan) standard? We spent hours troubleshooting our courses only to find out that the issue was on the LMS side. Not all LMSes are created equal in this regard.

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