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In addition to being educational, it should also be interesting and memorable. This is especially difficult to achieve with larger training materials or in situations where we do not have enough time and opportunities to create extensive courses.
How can you use practical examples to create engaging online courses?
In these cases, the use of practical examples (case studies) is highly appropriate.
They must, of course, be relevant. If you really want to say something, but it is a little off-topic, you can resort to a few tricks that will attract readers' attention. For this purpose, use the tools of gamification or add interactive and multi-layered scenarios to your online courses. However, always keep in mind that misplaced content may seem pointless to some learners and may negatively affect the further perception of the information.
Courses rich in practical examples have many advantages, such as: shorter creation time, originality, and meaning proven by experience.
Here are a few basic guidelines on how you can use practical examples (case studies) in your courses.
1. Find the connection between your online course and what happens in everyday life – this will make your example much more interesting and useful for learners.
2. Tell your example as a story – grab your learners' attention from the very beginning and keep it until the end of the training.
3. Tell your story from a third-person perspective – this will show the existence of different opinions and how the knowledge/lack of knowledge of certain information affects people's actions and decisions.
4. Don't get into too much detail – you certainly don't want to bore your learners, and larger courses require more effort to create.
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