Learning Course Formats For LMS

Despite the planning and resources spent in building a LMS, the learning materials, or what we call learning content, should play another key role as of the success in your LMS. The content can be in a diverse format, such as written document (with all of the stated description) or audio / video copy of the Instructor-led training session. By utilizing today's computer technology, some of the learning content can even linked to a video in youtube or any other web site.

Building a long length content is definitely possible, depending upon the knowledge level of the content creator. However, in the era of fast food, speed is what we all are looking for. Losing patience in a long length content is a common stereotype example. That is one of the challenges that some content creators were planning to direct translate traditional learning materials into digital content, and later on, they realize that the response from their audience is complete different.

One way to keep your reader interested in your topic is the mix use of learning content format. Sometimes you can rely on word document (of course, Power Point) for all of the learning content, the other time, 5-min video, something like that. Fortunately, most of the leading edge LMS are able to accept various format and allocate in the same platform. The idea here is to use various tools, but convert the learning spirit from traditional class-format into digitized learning environment.

Through the years of Instructor-led training experience, the writer of this blog senses the situation that when reading in the same Power Point content, people tend to interpret new information in a complete different way. Some people may get incorrect direction and then lose in the sea of the entire document. Another people may stick in one of the key words/sentences, then, completely got lost in the remaining learning session. This type of situation is very common. That should explain why most of the digital learning in nowadays stays 5-10 learning session, followed by some interactive sections, such as multiple choice questions or fill in blank questions.

The writer of this blog lives in one of the busiest cities in Asia, taking public transportation serves his daily commute. He always takes his time in observing the behavior of other commuters: spending time concentrating on their mobile device. Gaming App is the most application being used. The interactive motion does maintain individual's attention, at the same time, can we define those Gaming App as a LMS? If so, who is learning? In addition, are we able to transform or standardize our learning content into that "interactive motion format" as to keep our learners focused?