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Creating Online Learning: How Can You Avoid Potential Mistakes?

After 2 years of working with everyone from General Managers, seasoned eLearning Professionals, HR, Sales Managers, and everyone else set out with the task of implementing eLearning in their organizing, I can boil everything down into 6 common mistakes I see.

Avoid these, and you will be on your way to eLearning success!

1. Keep It Simple

I get it. Creating courses to educate and inspire your audience can be very exciting, and it’s easy to feel all fancy and get fancy with your online learning. But here’s the thing, it doesn’t work.

Now, I’m not saying to not take pride, not innovate, and try things outside the box as you craft your learning, but I implore you to keep it simple!

At the end of the day, creating courses using eLearning should have a clear goal—to educate. And everything that doesn’t add to that, takes away from it—being unnecessary complexity of information as an example.

When I work with professionals through this process, I ask them one question; “What will your learners be able to do after completing this course?”

Everything else, no matter how pretty or cool that doesn’t support that question needs to be turfed!