No Audio Narration Course - Share Your Ideas

[Jenise_RidgeViewMedia.com]

Hello Community Members!

David Anderson put me up to this but I was thinking of doing this on my own. I'll take either the credit or the blame. And, I hope to see at least GerryWaz post a reply to this thread.

I'm developing a health care course from the client's content/design. This course will have no audio narration due to sound card constraints by the business. I'm using targeted and contextual visuals along with concise content and persona dialogs in place of spoken narration.

I want to bounce something off of you, fellow community members, and I welcome your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, scorn, snickers, laughter, eye rolls; however, please be nice.

In the section where we discuss various practitioners and office staff by name/title, I want to get away from "telling" because, as we say: "Telling ain't training."

The workplace performance result or outcome is that when the learner hears the name or title of the practitioner (orthopedist, for example) the learner will be able to provide a brief description of what that practitioner does as a service to the patients.

The Big Idea
What I'm thinking of doing is create a hybrid of three great ideas from David Anderson and Jeanette Brooks so I can get away from "telling ain't training" and create a challenge activity to make them think and figure things out themselves.

David's Big Idea - Rapid Audio (I can use this w/out audio; with images/text on screen)
(I really like this one; so does my client. But, I want to make it more of a challenge activity instead of click/read/move forward. Your ideas?)
Screenr - @elearning: How to create a rapid audio elearning template. Source file available: http://is.gd/6ESvH

David's Big Idea - Art Gallery Quiz (I like this metaphor)
Screenr - @elearning: How to create an art gallery themed quiz w/ animation, layering and transparency in #Quizmaker

Jeanette's Big Idea - Use Images in Drap/Drop (I like it; not sure of images to use.)
(Instead of the art gallery, perhaps use a drag-n-drop?)
Screenr - @jeanettebrooks: How to use images instead of text on matching drag & drop questions in #Articulate Quizmaker

What are your thoughts/ideas/suggestions? What would you do to give the learners a fun, online challenge activity (instead of "telling") so they remember the practitioners 3-6 months after completing the course?

Thanks, community!

@jenisecook

[doofdaddy]

Idea:

Use quizmaker to create a To Tell the Truth like screen. Then the learner gets info and has to match to the right person/occupation

Fake interview: the learner interviews the person to collect info

Scavenger hunt activity: present a challenge where the learner looks for hidden info to make an informed decision.

[Jenise_RidgeViewMedia.com]

Originally Posted by doofdaddy

Idea:

Use quizmaker to create a To Tell the Truth like screen. Then the learner gets info and has to match to the right person/occupation

Fake interview: the learner interviews the person to collect info

Scavenger hunt activity: present a challenge where the learner looks for hidden info to make an informed decision.

"To Tell the Truth"... was that a TV game show? I think I need more info to remember that one.

Hmm... Fake Interview... I'm liking that idea. (Pondering hat is on.)

Scavenger Hunt... do you have a Screenr for that one?

I have about 9 practitioner names and 6-7 office staff names/titles. So, I'm looking at a total of about 15 names/titles. I forgot to mention that in my post. It's a 30-minute course as well.

Great thoughts, Tom!

[doofdaddy]

Do a play off of the way Allen Interactions does their security demo.

You have some people in a lounge, click on them for info and then send them to a room to be interviewed to figure out who they are.

Screenr - @tomkuhlmann: Example of interactive rapid elearning built entirely in PowerPoint and published with Articulate Presenter.

[Jenise_RidgeViewMedia.com]

Originally Posted by doofdaddy

Do a play off of the way Allen Interactions does their security demo.

You have some people in a lounge, click on them for info and then send them to a room to be interviewed to figure out who they are.

Screenr - @tomkuhlmann: Example of interactive rapid elearning built entirely in PowerPoint and published with Articulate Presenter.

That's a great idea!

[Jenise_RidgeViewMedia.com]

Or..! Or..!

The learner could be the patient... the learner has to choose the practitioner based on the symptoms s/he has.

And, for the office staff... the learner has XYZ problem or issue, and has to choose the staff person who can resolve that issue.

What do you all think?

Keep those ideas coming. I'm enjoying this!

[DavidAnderson]

The workplace performance result or outcome is that when the learner hears the name or title of the practitioner (orthopedist, for example) the learner will be able to provide a brief description of what that practitioner does as a service to the patients.

you said there were 9 different job roles? Do they work in 9 different working environments? I wonder if a combination of Tom's idea combined with 9 custom slide designs with job-specific elements as mnemonics could work.

View from above like Tom's sample and then link to job specific slide.

You could include the tools they use, uniform (if varies), common questions they are asked and anything else that helps learners identify who each practitioner is.

[Jenise_RidgeViewMedia.com]

Yes, David, there are 9 medical practitioner titles and they usually work in different hospitals or medical offices, and so they are not necessarily related to one another. So, Tom's idea wouldn't work with that activity.
However, the 7 office staff positions could possibly be in the same medical office, but do not have to be related. I could borrow Tom's idea for the 7 office staff titles, and do something else with the 9 practitioners.

For the practitioners, I was thinking of putting "your" Rapid Audio template inside Quizmaker and use multiple choice. And, incorporate the art gallery metaphor because these medical practitioners do bring beauty into people's lives. (No, plastic surgeon is not one of the practitioners in this course <smile>.)

Jeanette, what do you think about that Quizmaker idea? (You may respond tomorrow morning, due to time zone differences.)

You know, putting these types of questions into the Forum is a good idea (thanks David). It's nice that you all respond to our technical questions.

It's even better when people collaborate on instructional design ideas. It's particularly helpful for community members who are "lone IDs" like me (an office of one).

[heather]

I'm a little confused if these are just generic practitioners and staff positions or if they're specific people -- like Jane Smith is the nurse in Dr. Brown's pediatrician office.

I don't think you said who would be taking this training and for what purpose (why do they have to know these people)? I think part of understanding the different practitioners is highlighting which ones work together (like you will often see a chiropractor after seeing an orthopedist).

Consider having the learner take on the role of the patient, and do a "year in the life" type experience where you are the patient and the course takes you through several events in one year. Could be longer like their whole life if you have to go from a pediatrician to a geriatric practitioner.

You might have a car accident in January. Maybe present them with three practitioner options and let them pick (you'd have to quickly correct them to get them on the right path if they're wrong.) In that office, you meet three people (two staff and one practitioner). They refer you to a clinic for lab work where you meet two people. Now you need to return to the doctor's office to follow-up on the lab results, and you make the learner correctly greet the people they met earlier. Maybe that doctor then refers them to another practitioner. Etc. That one car accident might go to a couple doctors. But that one incident might end there.

Then, you jump ahead to March, and you slipped a disc while on a Spring Break trip...etc. You just do a couple of these "events" and tie together introducing the practitioners who make sense together.

Periodically review by doing follow-up visits or some other reason. I think this integrated approach would help emphasize overlap where overlap exists -- plus allow for review without being overt about "stopping to review". You could do all this in Quizmaker or Presenter, but I'd probably just do most of it in Presenter with periodic Quizmaker slides for interview questions.

Then, I can totally see doing the Rapid Audio thing at the end as an evaluation/review. I'd also suggest then giving them a cheat sheet PDF they can download at the end to keep as a reference of all these people. Should be able to be completed in 30 min.

Hope this helps get the wheels turning.

Heather

[Jeanette]

Jenise, I think using the matching drag & drop for the 9 practitioners might be challenging, unless you could break it apart into a series of maybe 3 or more questions. Placing them all on one quiz slide would be visually hard to pull off, and might be overwhelming to the learner.

What about if you were to set up a series of scenarios where the learner needs to counsel dental patients about the type of specialist they need to see. For each patient, give the learner a series of clickable resources via hyperlinks (i.e., the patient's symptoms, medical history, previous dental work, the outcome they're looking for, etc.). You could also provide a job aid on the toolbar that the learner could easily access at any time (maybe an Engage Labeled Graphic?) ... they could use the information they're gathering about the patient to look up the kind of specialist the patient needs. When they think they've identified the right type of specialist, they click on a link to see if they're correct. If not, they can go back and do more information-gathering/exploring. Maybe you could still use a series of matching drag/drop questions at the end too, as a form of follow-up or review?