Creating Interactive Training Modules: A Step-By-Step Guide

The process is simple once you understand your audience and objectives and choose the interactive elements to include in your course. Once this is done, everything else falls in place.

Add Interactive Elements:

Include interactive elements such as button click, pop-up, or drag and drop which the learners would have to perform to progress through the course.

The trick is to make sure that they have something to do on each page. Otherwise, a lack of consistent interaction will defeat the very purpose of the course.

Add Digital Storytelling:

This creative learning approach is centered on the needs of the learner. It evokes their emotions, prompting them to take control over the course, challenging them to decipher how the story would unfold. For example, you can create a story around a usual day at work at your organization and bring it alive with digital media.

You can use this as an interactive training module to onboard new employees. This story will give a human face to your company and set the stage for what the employees can expect in their new roles. 

Include Videos:

Various studies have shown the effectiveness of videos in attracting and holding learner attention while leading to long-term retention.

Use interactive 360° videos and images to immerse the learners in the course, for instance, you can have videos that walk them through actual locations to familiarize them with the environment in which they will be working or how they would have to perform a particular task. 

While incorporating videos, make sure they are based on the concept of microlearning. In other words, ensure they are crisp and concise, about 3 to 5 minutes long, so that learners can consume them with ease anytime and anywhere, without experiencing any cognitive overload.

Besides, these videos are also ideal for on the job performance support, providing your employees the right information at the right time.

Create Simulated Environments:

As said above, perhaps one of the greatest advantages of interactive training modules is that they allow learners to learn by doing.

Using technologies such as VR and AR, create simulated environments that allow them to practice their skills in safe settings without the fear of making mistakes. They can revisit these environments repeatedly until they have mastered the new skills and are confident to translate them into action.

Devise Branching Scenarios:

Branching scenarios give control to the learners letting them build their own narrative, and thus, personalize their learning. Add specific decision-points that allow them to change the narrative based on the choices they make.

Branching scenarios add a sense of challenge and adventure to the learning, motivating learners to explore and at the same time, build on their decision-making, critical thinking, and analytical skills.

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