While E-Learning makes compliance training more accessible, it can become stagnant when the same content structure is being used over and over again. The biggest complaint employees have about e-learning courses is that they’re less interactive and engaging than being in a classroom.
Here are tactics to keep your employees engaged with your E-Learning:
Just like when you create a live training, you’ll want to mix and match the methods of conveying information to keep your employees’ attention. Examples of media that your e-learning course can use to its advantage include different background and text colors, sound effects and auditory explanations, videos of trainers teaching, and even relevant cartoons.
Just because an e-learning course is online doesn’t mean you can’t make it interactive. Along with pre and post-tests, you can engage employees by giving fill in the blank mini-quizzes throughout the e-learning class. You can also ask employees to click on buttons or type an opinion during simulations.
E-learning training doesn’t necessarily have to be completed by one person sitting at a desk. You can still make the training a fun day for a group of employees by having them go to a training room, like they would for an in-person training, and put the training up on a large projector screen. Make sure to have separate computers for each employee so they can take their own pre and post-test. If you don’t have the facilities for a large training, allow employees to take the training in pairs.
Our trainers and developers at Interactive Services know how to make an e-learning compliance course interactive and fun for your employees. Contact us for help developing or improving your company’s e-learning course.