According to the neuroscientist, Dr. John Medina “all human beings are excellent at remembering pictures”. It means we all retain and learn more when we SEE, rather than when we HEAR or READ. Quite a simple psychology, isn’t it? No wonder when, as children, we learnt the alphabets – they all had a picture to associate each alphabet! Can we think of ways we could make eLearning courses as outstanding as the visually rich books of pre-schoolers?
Thankfully, due to the variety of authoring tools that we have to work with, we can truly make eLearning courses outstanding. Here are some of the elements that would help in the process:
GUI: The very first entity that catches learners’ attention is an attractive GUI. A template has components like modules, units, assessments and certificates, which makes it a foundation on which the course is built. A course template should be designed such that it reflects the characteristics of an organization and at the same time makes it interesting for the learner to get up the course.