Into the Driver's Seat

A teacher or instructor is the driving force behind any classroom learning session. He/she communicates topical knowledge with the learners, engages them with various discussions or questions, clears their doubts, and ensures their attention doesn’t stray much during the course. An e-learning course has to do all of the above, only without the presence of an instructor. That’s where the real challenge lies.

To compensate for the absence of a teacher and communicate better with learners, e-learning courses use interactive elements. Interactive learning makes your employees part of the learning process as opposed to being passive spectators. For topics that are difficult on the mind, interactive learning techniques help take the edge off and ensure necessary knowledge reaches the target audience. Interactivity largely increases the appeal of your course as it ceases to be a bland entity with loads of content, and becomes something that can facilitate communication.

"Research on effective learning reveals that an awful lot of what goes on in the classroom simply doesn’t matter. There are many pointless activities that take up valuable time in the name of engagement, merely demonstrating progress as opposed to actually making progress. Often, these approaches not only have limited impact on student learning but can have a hugely detrimental impact on teacher workload and wellbeing.

There is significant evidence to suggest that teachers should prune back what they do and focus on a more streamlined approach in the classroom. So it’s less about spending hours cutting things up and putting them in envelopes, and more about creating conditions in which students can gain long-lasting knowledge that can be applied in a range of situations. The following six principles are a distillation of key research on what really matters in the classroom."