I was reading today that one of the innovations in the coming years relating to e-learning will be learning paths that will structure themselves based on the needs of the learner. A macrostructure that changes according to needs. Well, wow. If I think about when this whole e-learning adventure began, about the courses transposed from Word or Powerpoint files that were completely impersonal, not very engaging and didactically wrong.
Because one thing is the material explained orally or used as a guide, but another thing is a solitary person, in front of the screen of his PC, reading captions and images (because the videos came later and because that was the state of information from classroom training).
One of the most difficult parts was to make those preparing the material to be structured into courses understand that, given the impossibility of having someone close by (also because otherwise the very idea of e-learning would decay), the topics had to be introduced, told, explained.
And so at the basis of the courses real storyboards were born, like in films, how to place the texts, how and which images to add and above all which of them needed to be described at least: what is this thing you see? What information can you find there? What can it be used for?
On the other hand, the digitization of information has led to notable “facilitation”: links that point to a glossary or an in-depth page, or to another topic.
Clickable diagrams, clickable images that refer to machine diagrams, illustrations, interactive videos that stop and make you think, or make you make a choice and adapt to the choice made.
