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 design an e-learning conclusion or summary slide.
You can focus your entry on instructions for closing the course, job aids to support the course, or even additional resources for learners to continue learning.
This week’s challenge is all about design ideas for presenting summary slides and resources. You don’t need to build out a working interaction—but I know many of you will, and that’s totally cool, too.
The way the challenge is phrased lends itself to how I anticipate many would create a summary; by listing/presenting key takeaways, terms, and concepts from whatever learning materials students had just encountered. We do this in online classes, in textbooks, and even in lectures (such as a conclusion slide). Even when interactions are introduced, the method tends to still be transmission from the content to the learner. What if we could use the summary as a way to activate learning and make use of the testing effect?
One of the lesser used interaction types is the summary. This allows you to create a series of statement sets, and as the learner selects the correct statement from each set, it builds the full summary. What I like about this more than just having an MCQ or other assessment at the end of a content item is that it automatically presents the full summary together on the screen. Often, having some kind of quiz breaks up each of the items to be learned. The summary content type can be used on its own, in the course presentation, in the column, and in my example below, the interactive video.