Tired of sinking time into convincing clients and SMEs that there’s more to e-learning than click-and-read compliance training?
If you’re like most course designers, you’ve probably tried countless ways to elevate the learning conversation beyond restrictive courses. You’ve shared learning theories, evidence-based research, and e-learning manifestos, but your clients insist on locking down their courses.
The truth is: no amount of bells and whistles can mask the pain learners feel when they’re suffocating through crappy compliance courses.
Visual Ammunition
To help your clients see e-learning from a different perspective, you need to communicate visually the pain they’re inflicting on learners. Only after experiencing the suffocating confinement of prison-like courses will your clients lower their e-learning guard.
The way you reach your clients is with something memorable… something visual. And that means sending your clients to the slammer. The tank. The clink. The pen.
Introducing the E-Learning Graybar Template
The Graybar theme is a shovel-ready template designed for quick content conversions. The template includes basic course slides, including:
- Chapter intros
- Quizzes
- Scenarios
- Summary slides
Using the template is easy. Simply drop your existing content into the pre-built layouts, publish, and share with your client.
Prepare for an emotional response. As your clients gain e-learning awareness, their capacity to manage emotions and empathize with the feelings of learners will increase. Bring tissues.
Learner Furlough Program
No doubt your learners will need some time to adjust to their new e-learning freedom. Take things slow and introduce interactive elements gradually. The e-learning recidivism rate is high for click-and-read lifers. Take small steps and leverage the supportive e-learning community to lower the likelihood of repeat offenders.
No learner should be a prisoner of their own learning.
Do your part to bail out captive learners by sharing the Graybar e-learning template with your clients today!
Brilliant approach! Client education just got easier thanks to your “shovel-ready” template. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks, Jackie. I like to think of this template as the one you break the glass for in emergency cases.
David,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for this great idea. I’ll work on this to have “in the background” for when I may need to break that emergency glass.
I kind of made fun of “boring” e-learning when I created a free Web comic. No extra features were available, but what you’ll see after you select the link sure reminds me of some Compliance courses the SMEs directed me to create in the distant past!
http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2015/04/witty-comics-free-web-comic-generator/
Hi my long-time friend! Go with the tried-and-true first and save this as an e-learning last resort. You likely won’t have much to lose at that point.
Great job with your comic. I have an upcoming challenge based around creating similar comic strips. I just added your example to my resources list for the post. Thanks!
Terrific! Loved seeing our favorite (and only free) character dressed up in prison clothes. This really gets the message across.
Thanks, Barbara! Atsumi has likely played 100 different roles over the past three years, I felt she needed a new challenge. If you ever use the templates please feel free to share a link either here or in E-Learning Heroes… I can’t help but think someone may have a real use for them.
Great work David as usual! you find inspiration everywhere! haha Thanks a lot for sharing your work, if I ever use the template, I’ll let you know
LOL thanks, Cecilia! Maybe we could do something around “Unlikely Design Themes” in a future challenge. Something that forces us to design for a project we’ll never create.
Thanks for adding a dash of humor to an otherwise serious subject. The prison uniform is priceless!