The document discusses tips for developing a successful interactive eLearning strategy. It recommends including interactive scenarios to engage learners, integrating quizzes and assessments to test understanding, and encouraging collaboration to incorporate human interaction. An appealing design with varied multimedia is also important to maintain learner attention. The goal is to create an immersive learning experience through exploration and applying concepts to realistic problems in order to maximize engagement and knowledge retention.

1. Dwi Sulisworo
di Sekolah SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Depok, Sleman, 27/2/2015

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4. High quality content, polished design, and easy
navigability are three important ingredients of
any successful eLearning course. However, one
of the most essential elements of an eLearning
course design and development is often
overlooked; and that is no other than
interactivity.
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successful-interactive-elearning-strategy

5.  Keep it relevant and on-topic!
 Exploration is key to learner engagement.
 Include interactive, reality-based scenarios.
 Integrate quizzes or assessments at the
end of each module or lesson.
 Tap into their emotions.
 Encourage group collaboration.
 Make your eLearning course aesthetically
appealing.

6.  Offering high quality and meaningful content will keep learners
fully engaged and motivated to learn. On the other hand,
including information that is general and not specific won't bring
any added value to the eLearning course, and may even make the
learner question the value of the eLearning course as a whole. So,
stay on-topic and always ensure that you offer
information that will help them to improve their
knowledge base and learn or improve upon a desired skill
set.The key to finding what's relevant for your interactive online
courses is to not simply include what you think is important, but
include what you believe the learner may find valuable. If you are
able to find a middle ground, you will be able to develop an
eLearning strategy that provides the most benefit for everyone
involved.

8.  It's essential that learners are given the opportunity to
explore the eLearning course if you want it to be fully
interactive. Include links that learners can just click on
in order to learn more about the topic, create stories
that they need to interact with, integrate visual
components that make the topic more eye-catching,
and encourage them to explore the module by hyper-
linking to other pages that may be of interest. All of
these key elements will enable you to create
interactive eLearning courses that enhance learners’
engagement and keep them coming back for more
knowledge and information.

11.  The most powerful tool that you have at your disposal when
developing an interactive eLearning strategy is reality-based
eLearning scenarios. Integrating real life examples and problems
into your eLearning course will give you the chance to draw in the
learners and show them, first hand, how knowledge acquired can
be applied outside of the learning environment. For example, if
you design a scenario that allows the learners to tap into the skills
they have learned during the eLearning course, such as technical
problem solving or customer service, they gain invaluable
experience that can be used on-the-job later on. Making these
scenarios interactive by including video, images, and audio,
enables you to create an immersive and effective learning
environment that motivates and engages the learners.

12.  Including quizzes and tests at the conclusion of each
module not only allow facilitators and creators
to assess the effectiveness of the eLearning course,
but also offer learners the opportunity to gauge their
progress and summarize the content they have
learned. Make the quizzes interactive, such as
including real-life problems that learners must solve
by using their newly acquired skills. Include tests that
feature video and/or audio questions. Offer point-and-
click games that test their knowledge while steep
keeping them engaged.These end-of-lesson quizzes
can not only help to avoid boredom, but boost
knowledge retention rates as well.

14.  Emotional responses can also help learners to
better acquire and retain new information or
skills. Including videos that may elicit an
emotional response or images that may allow
them to personally relate to the subject are keys
to interactive experiences. Find human interest
pieces (such as real-life news and events) that
relate to the topic and integrate those into your
eLearning course. Just keep in mind that you
shouldn't necessarily go for “shock value”, as
this will only serve to pull the attention away
from the core content.

15.  Get your learners communicating with one another,
even if your eLearning course is centered around
asynchronous learning. Start group discussions on
online forums, encourage them to solve problems
collectively via group chats online, and integrate
social media sites into your eLearning strategy. Group
collaboration enables you to include the human
element in your eLearning courses, despite the fact
that learners may not be meeting face-to-face.
Human interaction gives them the opportunity to
learn from other learners' experiences and to explore
a topic in depth within a group setting.

16.  An eLearning course that includes a variety of
different multimedia elements and
is aesthetically appealing is going to be more
interactive than one that relies upon solely text
content. Use fonts that are visually pleasing and
videos that make a potentially repetitious or dry
topic more engaging and attractive. Making
your eLearning course attention grabbing and
unique will help the learners to connect with the
curriculum and get more from the educational
experience.

17. Good Example: 5Tips to Make
Rapid E-Learning Interactive

18. https://community.articulate.com/series/how-do-i-make-this-course-
more-interactive

20. Make a check list!