User talk:Raptivityessential

June 2014
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how essential are learning interactions to elearning? A few days back, I attended an eLearning seminar on behalf of Raptivity, where I got to spoke to quite a few eLearning professionals. Most of them were mature professionals from the eLeaning domain who had spent a significant time of their careers creating eLearning courses but there were a few who were essentially novices and had just stepped into the field of eLearning course development. During my conversation with them, I could gauge that they were quite inquisitive about interactions in eLearning and their importance. Of course I had my fair bit of opinion to share which I shared too, but when I came back from the conference, it occurred to me that why don’t I get this query answered from a panel of eLearning experts. So we got an expert panel together and put forth this question to them, ‘How essential are learning interactions to eLearning?’ Each of them had a lot to share, and most of them had similar opinion on the question. I have picked up the key points from the conversations I had with them and here is it for you all to read. Joe Ganci, Owner, eLearning Joe “ELearning should always include as much interactivity as possible. It really is a travesty that today most eLearning seems to be very linear in nature and without a lot of interactivity included. Only when you include interactivity, you really help learners to do rather than just watch, and watching doesn’t really help people learn. In fact as often as possible if we can allow them to make mistakes while they are doing, that’s when they are really learning, they are learning from their mistakes. In real life that’s how we learn as well. We don’t learn by watching something, we learn by doing something. When we are creating eLearning, we need to replicate that real life experience as much as possible.”

Barbara Carnes, Ph.D., Carnes and Associates, Inc. “Interactions are very important. Interactivity and engagement resolve empire levels of learning, but the issue with a lot of eLearning in the past and I think to some extent in the present is that people simply put through slides. To get past looking through the slides and help people learn more, retain more and use more, it’s important to have them be engaged. The way to help them be engaged is by having interactivity.”

Nigel Paine, Learning Consultant and Managing Director, nigelpaine.com Ltd. “I don’t know whether there is a grade above essential because that’s how important learning interactions are to eLearning. It’s not just a ‘nice to have’ or something that would be good if you have the time and the money. If you are serious about making it eLearning as opposed to ePage turning, then interactivity is at the heart of the learning experience and at the heart of learning process and at the heart of student motivation. I can’t emphasize enough on how essential learning interactions are for eLearning.” Dr. Ann Jackson, Ed.D., Educational Consultant “Over the past several years interactive learning really has become an expectation in eLearning. Interactive learning objects serve many purposes like increasing attention, maintain learner engagement, improve retention and really enhance the overall learning experience. And today the interactive building tools are so easy to use and cost effective that they can enable interactive learning to become a norm.” Matthew Mason, Owner, iDesign Training “Interactions are pretty essential. If you are not getting engagement from your learners or if you are not interacting with them, then why to even think of bothering to put together an eLearning course, why not just send them a pdf document that they can read. The purpose of having eLearning is that people actually are able to interact and apply their knowledge through those interactions.”

Iva Mastaic, Founder and CEO at Consulio, Inc. “People learn the most while practicing different things and they feel more comfortable when they learn through interactions. Everything what has been practiced can be learnt better and the interactions which make you practice, simulation for example, definitely take the priority in eLearning. ”

Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group “Over the past several years, people have come to expect greater interactivity in eLearning. Learning interactions help in gaining attention, keeping the learner engaged, improving retention and enhancing the overall learning experience. Interaction building tools make it easy and cost effective to add custom interactions to eLearning courses. Interactivity is more a norm than exception today.”

So, this was what each one of them had to say. How essential do you think are learning interactions to eLearning? Share your opinion below.

Isha Sood Marketing Manager Raptivity