Inductive learning lives ... just!
In my post last week, Whatever happened to inductive learning?, I complained how difficult it was with current rapid development tools to write more conversational inductive questions in which you as author are able to comment on each selection that the user makes. This facility is important because (1) with inductive questions, you are building on a user's past experience rather than assessing knowledge, so the idea that an answer is correct or incorrect is of no relevance, (2) even if you are assessing, in many cases there are no 'right' answers, just different perspectives, and (3) every mistaken selection by a user is an opportunity to clarify the point and help eliminate any misunderstanding.
Thanks to your helpful comments and suggestions, I did not give up and tried to make this type of questioning work with two of the most popular tools, Captivate and Articulate. With Captivate, I ended up using the roll-over facility to trigger the feedback. You can see the results here:
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/60mins/Captivate/1_1/60mins_1_1.htm
The end result is OK, but I had real trouble authoring this because it seems that text feedback that will appear in the same place on the user's screen is also shown in the same place in the Captivate authoring interface - that means you have the feedback for each option shown all in one place like a heap of spaghetti. The obvious solution is for Adobe to allow option-specific feedback to be edited in the question dialog box. Please?
I also followed up on a suggestion by Tom Kuhlmann and used the facility in PowerPoint to create links from slide to slide to create a workable solution that I was able to export into Articulate. You can see how this looks here:
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/60mins/Articulate/1_1/player.html
I'm quite pleased with the look of this, although it does mean that you generate an awful lot of slides and have to do a lot of manual linking. Perhaps the next generation of Articulate QuizMaker will make all this extra work redundant?
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posted by Clive Shepherd @ 12:28 PM #
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Hi Clive
Good examples! Thanks for sharing.
I don't know which version of Captivate you are running, but if you have Cap 3, you may find it easier to provide the feedback using Slidelets. Making the options clickable (like in your second example) seems stronger than rolling over the option. And slidelets let you do that reasonably easily.
Although it can still get a bit messy :-)
Hi Clive, have you tried using the timeline? You can simply hide the rollover captions you are not working on in edit mode.
Greetings,
Silke
Thanks for the great tips everyone. It seems Captivate can do just what you want. You just have to make a little more effort than I obviously have!
I have a question on a slightly different tac if anyone can offer some advice. I am looking to do some complex question and feedback but need to build it in to an authoring tool.
I am looking for an authoring tool that will allow us to build feeback based on a collective of answers i.e. We will ask say 10 questions and then based on the answers to all of the 10 questions we will give specific feedback. Currently done as a database with an algorithm working in background but i want to build this in as a part of an e-learning programme. Anyone got any ideas on a suitable product to handle this. We are going to look at BTL's solution.
Sous, what you suggests doesn't sound like something for a rapid development tool. My recommendation would to either (1) work in Flash and use ActionScript to do the calculations, or (2) use a fully-functioning authoring tool that has a scripting language behind it. I haven't used one of these for a while, but it may be possible in Toolbook or perhaps Lectora.
Nice examples, Clive. I think the last slide makes the critical point. It's not about having an award winning product, instead it's about getting a decent product that works out to the people that need it quickly.
I have dozens of examples where it would take my Flash developers weeks to pull a project together that I could do with a rapid authoring tool in days (sometimes hours). In addition, I skip a lot of production meetings and having to work through all of the communication issues you have when you work with other people.
Hi Clive
Working directly in HTML is often overlooked in eLearning these days. I think it's the hype around Flash-based products, developers' reliance on GUIs and the fact that most 'developers' aren't coders by trade.
What most people seem to forget is that sometimes coding things by hand can be quicker!
Here's an HTML version of your demo I whipped up in about an hour (starting from scratch).
Here's my journal entry with more information.
Take care, thanks for the great blog
- philip
Clive,
Great blog. Great discussion.
I like to keep an eye on your blogs. I often find information very relevant to what I do. (I'm in the training field less than a year, and I create e-learning for a company of about 3000 people.)
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