Characters! A well-chosen cast of characters can take on unique personalities that help learners connect to the subject matter and make your eLearning experiences unforgettable.
Character simulation is the representation or enactment of a person or character that can interact, mentor and guide the learners throughout the course. The characters used can be similar to the company’s employees, subject matter experts or can be a fictional character. Characters are an effective way of providing personalized and productive learning experiences. It helps the organization in engaging the employees with the module throughout ensuring an increase in efficiency.
Let us now look at the importance of characters in E-learning:
Scenario-based situations: Characters easily help the learners in initiating and building settings that are useful for a course. We can include a particular character for introduction like a doctor for a module in hospital who will give suggestions like how to make the best use of the available resources. Characters in scenario-based situations have always played a significant role in making the E-learning module successful.
Roles and responsibility: As the workforce is filled by different people who has different geographies and background, ideas, opinions and gestures it is easy for us to bring them all together or present them in a precise way with the help of characters to make them understand better. Complex content can often be simplified to crisp direct speech when conveyed through the dialogue of characters.
Using characters in Job aids: Reusing course characters in job aids and other material that supports the learning program (emailers, website, merchandise, etc.) provides continuity and enhances learner retention. For example, characters from an HR policy awareness course can point to key policies on the company’s Intranet or provide tips to employees in emailers.
Creates a sense of cohesiveness.
Rather than having disjointed eLearning modules or activities, you can add an eLearning character who ties all of the information together. eLearning characters are able to direct learners to the next online lesson, compare and contrast related ideas, and show the connection between each of the eLearning modules.
Improves knowledge retention.
eLearning characters help to create a more positive and supportive online learning environment. When learners actually enjoy themselves and are inspired to learn, they are more likely to remember the information. eLearning characters make all of this possible by offering a helping hand and some much-needed guidance during the eLearning experience.
Characters enhance e-Learning by providing a social context that motivates learners, thereby improving cognition and recall. Well-designed social roles, in which the characters relate to, interact with, support, and work alongside the learner, provide the best learning outcomes.
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