How to Craft Content and Trainings that Keep Teams Engaged
43mGeneral2024-03-01
Authors

Madecraft
Full-Service Learning Content Company

Alex Mitts
Course details
When you're able to keep an audience engaged, you're able to better help them learn and retain key information painlessly. In this course, instructional designer and EdTech consultant Alex Mitts shares his guide to building learning experiences designed to maximize engagement. Alex first explores strategies to strip the content down to the bare bones in order to make it easier to follow. He then covers how you can break up your content and use different principles to structure the training or lesson plan to ensure it's easy to follow and that it reduces cognitive load. Along the way, Alex covers tactics to "feed the brain," or help stimulate your learners throughout a presentation. He concludes by sharing guidance and tips for engagement to lend extra support for your learners. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the confidence to craft more engaging learning content and experiences.
Skills covered
Corporate TrainingTraining and EducationTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLimited SeriesLeadership and Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Crafting engaging content
1. Nothing Extra
- 02 - No more clutter
- 03 - X marks the spot
- 04 - Keeping things close
- 05 - Ears and eyes
- 06 - Talking heads
2. Break It Down
- 07 - Information overload
- 08 - Give me a break
- 09 - Filling in the gaps
3. Feeding the Brain
- 10 - The modality principle
- 11 - The multimedia principle
- 12 - The personalization principle
- 13 - The voice principle
4. Extra Tips for Increasing Engagement
- 14 - Recording better media
- 15 - Utilizing gamification
Conclusion
- 16 - Time to craft