Use a little Creativity in your Instrucitonal Design

Using a little creativity can go along way to improving the instructional design of an eLearning course...and can save $$$. For example, using some video in your courses can definitely add instructional value. However, they can be quite expensive to produce, not too mention they can be quite passive and end up increasing the boredom factor.

Commoncraft has a great example of how they used video to explain the concept of wikis. By using a little creativity, they came up with a very low-tech solution, yet it definitely gets the point across. Also, this unorthodox approach coupled with just the right amount of humor has most definitely increased the retention factor (I'm sure you won't easily forget how to use a wiki). On a final note, this video, also makes excellent use of storytelling...storytelling can be a very powerful instructional design technique in eLearning courses to help with retention.