Interactive

Background

Interactive elements can help learners retain concepts, by essentially providing them hands-on practice of many sorts to complement any audio, video, graphic, and text components within a learning module. I specifically focused on some clickable elements and quizzes to help cement concepts for my learners. I used Rise to create my learning module, and Google Slides for my storyboard.

Click here to follow the learning module I created!

You can also review the storyboard and the PDF of the learning module below, alongside the completed digital media checklist (template here).

Find more background on this particular assignment at the bottom of this page.

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Storyboard

I found that because Rise is so plug-and-play, the complexity of storyboard that I established ahead of time probably wasn't necessary. It was still good practice. It also made execution pretty quick (aside from a few hiccups I found due to the functionality offered in Rise).

get-better-feedback-vtDyQTs2.pdf

By Brandy Churchill, licensed as [CC BY-SA 4.0]. You are free to share and remix this work provided you include attribution to the original author and distribute any resulting work under the same or similar license to this one.

PDF Learning Module

This is a static version of the learning module, in case Rise is unavailable for some reason (or you prefer to review without interacting).

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Digital Media Checklist

Other learning designers would only be able to remix this content if I added them as a collaborator in Rise, something that is possible but not as open as true OER. I was able to achieve high production quality and interactivity using the Rise tool.

Learning Gap/Objective

Learners will be able to articulate strategies and reasoning for requesting feedback rather than waiting for it to be delivered.

By the end of this module, learners will:

Identify why soliciting feedback creates better feedback and better relationships
Characterize strategies to receive feedback effectively
Express strategies to solicit feedback effectively

Instructional Strategy & Audience

This course is intended for adults interested in exploring ways to make feedback better for themselves (and others). This specific strategy of proactively seeking feedback has a variety of benefits to help make the feedback process better. An online learning module to help address concrete strategies and applicable skills/practices for effective feedback would help a broad range of adult learners in the workplace and beyond.

Since this is a fully online module, with no instructor review, I needed to make the course interactive without needing human eyes to review "assignments". A future opportunity could be to create a chatbot (or something like it) to help learners actually play-act asking for feedback and receiving it effectively.

Content Development

I used Creative Commons images from Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons, as well as one image from the stocks of Rise (the tool I used to create the learning module). I did not edit images for this module; I simply downloaded sizes that seemed as small as I could go without degrading quality on high-resolution views.

I chose Rise, which is a lighter web version of Articulate (I have a license through work). I was going to try Smart Sparrow or some of the other tools suggested in my class, but unfortunately, there was a sales pitch involved in Smart Sparrow, and I was concerned the other products would be limited in functionality compared to Rise. Plus, I got to play with a tool I might use at my current job.

Rise is easy to use, but a little more limited than I had hoped. I wanted to create an open-ended exercise at the end of the learning module for learners to create an action plan, but there wasn't an elegant way to do that. I created a clickable set of reminders instead.

See the note above for Creative Commons licensing.

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