How to make your eLearning content interactive?

Interactive Content Development encapsulates of multiple learning methods. While thinking of interactive content, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is that the content should itself be self-explanatory and interact with the learner. Often, many E-Learning courses fall short of the expectations of interactive content and fail to convey the right messaging. In such cases, subject experts are needed while teaching anything, especially while teaching STEM.

How can you make your eLearning courses interactive?

Courses can be made interactive by adding games, diagrams, animations, and another kind of digital learning objects. Using virtual reality is also an instrumental way of teaching the student with the help of real-time examples. Interactive courses need to talk to the learner and explain the curriculum in the most effective manner.

Assessments

Interactive content should consist of courses that the learner can take after studying about a certain subject. There should be multiple explanations should the student get stuck at a particular part. The learner should feel like he/she is reading a story. These elements will enhance learners’ engagement and keep them coming back for more information and knowledge. Integrating quizzes and assessments at the end of the module or lesson will permit the eLearning content creators to access the effectiveness of the eLearning course with the help analytics. It then helps them determine the progress of the learner and the pain of points of the learner.

Interactive content should have a flavor of games, quizzes, videos, images, and other elements. Analytics and learning go hand in hand, as without knowing the progress of the learner, one can never determine the actual length and breadth of learning.

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What is Interactive Content?

In the present era, when it comes to content consumption, conventional websites and distributors are increasingly preferring mobile apps and social networks which can usually deliver a faster, effective and better experience. Today, the bar is set high for the modern marketers to create and distribute content which is cost-effective and provide a better way to educate, engage and entertain the audience. In other words, marketers today face a major problem of generating interactive content which can deliver greater ROI and can be distributed easily to a larger range of audience. Interactive content is a better and modern way to educate, engage and entertain your target audience. Also, the interactive content development offers plenty of perks that content companies can't easily ignore.

Now, if we look towards why interactive content is gaining so much popularity then we can conclude that it is a way to have a conversation with your audience. Interactive content enables audiences to compete, share their opinion, learn and have fun. On the other hand, for the marketers and distributors, this helps to gain detailed profile information about their prospect’s challenges, goals, and other aspects.  

Lastly, interactive content is just like putting a sales development representative into a simple piece of content and making it a two-way conversation. Interactive content provides your audience with experiences which require active engagement and offers valuable results. Also, this provides more value to marketers and helps them educate themselves about their target audience. So, once you are convinced, ensure to take help from a credible development partner who can offer you reliable services including custom technology solutions and testing to help you with the interactive content generation.

Turning Pokémon GO into Meaningful Educational Tools

Pokémon GO, the Augmented Reality based game that’s topping the search trends this month, has captured the attention of K-12 learners. So if these kids are primed to think of little else than this game then teachers and content providers might take the advantage of this newly created opportunity.  The game has made such a huge buzz in EdTech community with teachers and educators debating the different possibilities to create game based interactive learning content.

Understanding that the attention span of K-12 learners can’t be more than 17 minutes [Attention Span (mins) = Chronological Age + 1], games have proven to be an excellent way to ensure effective learning outcomes. Publishers and content creators understand how to make games memorable and "sticky" in the sense that, even when students aren't playing the game, they are still thinking of solving the problems and puzzles. That’s the effect of this newly launched AR based game which is topping the charts.

Here are a few ideas for turning Pokémon GO into a meaningful educational tool:

1) Promoting Data Literacy Skills: The game automatically records the date and time of the event as they occur – be it collecting Poké Balls or capturing Pokémon. Students can use the app to learn data plotting and finding average number of events per day. Analyzing this data can then help them become familiar with data literacy skills like data-presentation, data- analysis and much more.

2) Inspire Story-telling: The game allows players to snap photos of the creatures in front of their real-world settings, this gives an opportunity to teachers to fuel creativity in students and promote language skills by asking them to imagine and write stories around Pokémon they capture in the game.

3) Encouraging Young Social Scientists: The game can be used to help students research about the habitat where Pokémon is found. Students can be made to observe the habitat where Pokémon is found and sketch it. It also encourages students to analyses the kind of conditions under which different creatures thrive and makes them environmentally conscious.

An excellent opportunity here for interactive content development to achieve the desired learning outcomes and for EdTech companies to leverage the power of Augmented Reality (AR) and Game based learning in the classroom.