As a seasoned eLearning professional, I firmly believe that a module should be designed in a way that the learners do not encounter any challenge while moving from one slide to another. It should never be designed in a way that keeps the learners guessing about the next move; else they will end up losing their focus very soon. Now the question is whether there should be a set of best practices for eLearning course navigation. If yes, here are 7 of them:
Provide a single way to navigate forward.Learners often get confused when they see multiple ways on a slide to navigate forward in the course. For instance, if there is a “Next” and a “Continue” button on the same slide. In this case, it should be either of the buttons and not both. You may consider removing one of the buttons so that the learners are not confused as which of the paths they should follow next. In some scenarios, where it is a tricky situation, you may want to add a call-out to provide clear guidance to the learner.
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