Using Scrolling Panels in E-Learning (2020) #273
I have a back catalogue of small instructional design challenges and charrettes that I’ve been meaning to build into something bigger one day. That is obviously taking too long, so here’s a new idea. The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community runs a weekly eLearning Challenge. I’ve mentioned before that often different IDs in different contexts will use different tools, and while I’ve used some of Articulate’s products, I’m primarily a Mac user. This means that a number of their products are not available to me. So instead, I thought, rather than being an Articulate eLearning Hero, that I could be an InArticulate eLearning Hero. So here it goes.
This week, your challenge is to share one or more ideas for using scrolling panels in e-learning courses.
Hey JR, I’ve read a few of your posts in this series, but this was first time I jumped over to see the Heroes site. I really like that vibe of people sharing work and giving feedback, or just reacting. I am wondering what it might take to run a series like that using H5P over in the Kitchen.
Hey Alan, as always thanks for reading!
I really like the challenges they post to the eLearning Heroes. I am pretty sure David Anderson works for Articulate, but in ID blogs and podcasts the Heroes challenges come up pretty regularly particularly for folks to check out if they’re new to the tools or the field more generally. I’m not great at coming up with my own challenges so it’s been great to lean on these as a starting place too.
Over the years I’ve thought about how to boot up a set of challenges that aren’t tied to one specific project. I even gave the DS106 bank theme a try for a bit, but without a specific project to tie it to, it always fell by the way side. I think the Kitchen would be a great place that is active and would have great samples provided, especially if there’s a second round coming. I’ve noticed that some of the challenges are tool specific and some are more task/problem specific, which could be a good framing for the Kitchen challenges too. With the H5P content types alone that’s like 40 challenges. 41 might be “show how more than one H5P content type could be combined to address a single concept, procedure or problem.” Then abstracting a bit more from that. Just some random thoughts off the top.