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Give students a diagnostic at the start of each unit using a free digital assessment tool. You can also use Microsoft Forms!

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Engage students at the start of the lesson with an interactive digital tool.

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Successful eLearning courses hook readers on the very first page. That's because eLearning , in essence, is all about engaged learning. It's multi-sensory in that it engages all senses through interactive texts, stunning graphics and compelling videos. And unlike traditional learning environments that treat learners as passive receptacle for information, eLearning courses invite learners to actively participate in their lessons.

Not all online trainings and programs, however, are successful. A lot of them are downright boring that people would rather skip chapters or multi-task during the course. If your learners are doing any of these, you're failing at your job as an eLearning developer or instructional designer. Successful eLearning courses that people complete from start to finish share one crucial element: a solid introductions and better beginnings. Below are some indispensable tips to creating one.
Below are some indispensable tips for making beginnings that turn heads:

1. Tap into the Learner's Motivation through Personalized Learning Goals

Why should people invest two to three hours completing your module? What in it for them? If you don't find the course interesting enough to begin with, other people won't start it either. Have clear goals when developing a course and highlight them in the introduction.

Be sure to emphasize an individual learner's goals, not yours. Personalizing goals is a surefire way to get them excited about something. Skip writing about your credentials and personal history in the beginning. Focus, instead, on what you can give people through the module.

Will the module help them become better at work or improve their mastery in something they love? Tell them from the very beginning.

2. Get Learners Excited About Completing the Course

Marketers entice people to buy a product or service through call-to-actions. There are at least two elements that make call-to-actions effective and that are worth borrowing for eLearning designers. First, they encourage people to immediately take a specific action. Second, they offer irresistible and value offers in exchange of completing such action. Successful eLearning can also tap effective call-to-actions by:

Asking thought provoking questions (that they can personally reflect.

Creating anticipation by promising a reward (usually in the form of certification.)

Asking people to take a certain action or series of actions.

Designing compelling graphics and interactive texts.

Creating a sense of urgency or immediacy in completing a chapter or assignment.

Simply pop out rhetorical questions in the first screen. Each time you ask a question, even if it is rhetorical, it conditions their brain to answer.

Leave learners guessing a little; tease or preview the content without revealing the whole story. If you leave learners wit unanswered questions, they're more likely to continue to find out the answers.

3. Engage Learners' Emotions by Telling Stories

A strictly cerebral and highly analytical approach to eLearning may not be the most effective. Researchers have already studied and confirmed the direct impact of emotions on how people learn. Candy Lawson, PhD, writes in her book, The Connections Between Emotions and Learning, that both emotional and thinking processes occur inside the brain. Thinking, which is a vital learning component, affects the emotions and vice versa.

And what better way to engage learners' emotions than storytelling. Transform boring and information-heavy courses into interesting sets of stories. Show them pictures or videos that simplify complex technical concepts. You can, for instance, include an aesthetically appealing yet functional infographics with pie charts than bombard learners with numbers.

4. Hook Learners Immediately with Visual Design

Design and format is your course's first impression, and it needs to hook readers immediately. Truth is, many learners feel like your eLearning courses are a waste of time just because of the way it looks. This is why we suggest designing attractive interfaces to help generate positivo emotions from the audience.

When you place just the right visual, you create the right kind of emotion. That's why we believe it is worth taking the time to create courses that are visually appealling. You can start by:

Using colors to hook learners emotionally . Use them in a way that they look right together and fit the context of your course.

Keeping a consistent look and feel . Just ensure you use consistent graphics and design elements.

Maintaining image quality . Always start with the best image you can and go from there!

Hopefully just the beginning of your success!

Great beginnings of the best novels or TV series or whatnot never fail at making people curious. By working on a great course introduction, you're tapping people's innate capability of curiosity and giving them an opportunity to learn something new. So we encourage you to hook the learner in!

What Are Some Memorable Intros You've Seen or Created? Tell us!

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las Part 3 of the 3 Part Series on Using the UDL Lens of Access, Engage, and Express

Just imagine learners turning challenges they have into strengths! Consider those same learners enhancing their strengths so they are self-confident in what and how they learn. Wouldn't it be great if your learners were able to set their own goals to explore careers and determine what experiences they need to be college and career ready?

This post is the last part of the three part process for all learners of any age to build agency so they become independent and self-directed learners.

We want all learners to realize their hopes and dreams and want to help them get there.

Your learners shared with you how they learn best using the Learner Profile (LP). Your conversations with your learners when using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens of Access, Engage and Express™ describing their strengths, challenges, preferences and needs in how they learn helped them decide what to include in their Personal Learning Backpack (PLB). You collaborated with your learners to choose the skills, tools and apps that can enhance their strengths and support their challenges they have in accessing and processing information, engaging with content and expressing what they know and understand.

The next step in the process is to help each learner develop the skills to be an independent, self-directed learner with agency. The Personal Learning Plan is where the learner defines goals, describes actions steps, and indicates a way to measure progress and achievement.

Introducing the Personal Learning Plan

The purpose of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP) is to assist learners to develop goals with a set of actionable steps to achieve those goals. The PLP has four specific focuses:

Learning Goals (Access, Engage and Express) to develop independent skills to support their own learning;

Personal Goals to explore their interests, talents, or passions;

College and Career Goals to gain first-hand experiences in career areas where they have strong interests; and

Citizenship Goals to become an active citizen in the local or global community.

Learning Goals for Skill Development

In Part 1 (LP) and Part 2 (PLB) of this series, the learner shared one of her Express challenges was that she found it difficult to put her thoughts on paper, and that she needed a speech-to-text (STT) tool to help her write her thoughts down. She has seen that tool being used by other learners but would like to learn how to use it on her own. She works with her teacher to describe the Express Learning Goal along with a set of action steps to learn the speech-to-text tool and evidence in reaching her goal.

Action steps that will help meet my goal:

1. Schedule to meet with a peer tutor twice a week to show me how to use the STT tool features for writing.

2. Practice with the STT tool daily at school or home for short writing assignments for 2-3 weeks.

3. Write an outline for a one-page writing assignment with the STT tool.

Other supports I will need for my Express Goal: Coordinate time to work with my peer tutor who will show me how to use the different features of the STT tool. Access to the STT tool at school and home so I can practice using it for my writing.

Set of apps/tools that could support my Express Goal: Dragon Dictation, Voice Dream Writer.

Reflection on Achieving my Express Goal: Learning how to use a STT tool gave me the skills to write on my own. Now I am getting my writing assignments done on time.

On reflection, she has taken a challenge she has had for a while and has now learned new skills so she can independently write her assignments. What a great feeling she has in achieving a goal she set for herself! Her next focus is on a personal goal. Let's take a look back at how she described her interests, talents and passions to illustrate what a personal goal would be.

Personal Goals to Explore Interests, Talents, and Passions

For this learner, having a personal goal that she can focus on gives her an opportunity to explore what she has only dreamed about doing.

Interests, talents, and passions: I love drawing and want to take more art classes in different mediums. I am interested in helping others and maybe can see myself as a teacher or a business leader when I grow up. I am starting to learn about social media and may even look at starting to create a logo and website to showcase my artwork.

Setting a personal goal and taking actions to meet that goal ignites engagement and encourages ownership to learning. Her personal goal is to create a logo and website to feature her artwork. The action steps to help meet this goal can include:

Consult with art/design teacher on personal goal.

Create several logo designs.

Invite art/design teacher to help her choose the best design.

Prepare artwork to display on the website.

Locate low or no cost websites and review features and specs to display artwork.

She decided with her teacher that her evidence in reaching this goal would be featuring her artwork with written and audio narratives on a website with her self-designed logo. Next, she wants to focus on her college and career goals.

College and Career Goals to Pursue Opportunities

The high school where this learner attends offers Extended Learning Opportunities (ELOs). She is excited to have an opportunity to teach art with younger learners in her town. She meets with her ELO Coordinator and begins outlining the action steps that include:

Discover who are the elementary art teachers in the local and adjacent schools.

Develop a proposal outlining her goals for an art teacher mentorship.

Decide on two art teachers and set up a time for an interview to share goals of the mentorship.

Begin mentorship with art teacher and coordinate a schedule.

This experience of being mentored by two art teachers helps this learner make college and career decisions about going into this profession. During the mentorships, she created a visual portfolio of her experiences in the classrooms on her website with audio to show evidence of reaching her goal for college and career.
Realizing that she enjoys working with younger children and learning from her mentors, she was inspired to look at ways to give back to the community since she received so much help from others.

Citizenship Goals to Contribute to our Democracy

A Citizenship Goal contributes to a learner's understanding that a democracy thrives when you are an active citizen in the community. This learner meets with her teacher/advisor to discuss how she would like to give back to the community by being actively involved with the local food pantry. Now that she has decided on the goal, she discusses what her action steps could be.

Meet with the food pantry coordinator to discuss how she could contribute and the time she could commit.

Make up signs to post at local businesses and schools.

Collect non-perishable food for the food pantry.

Organize food at the pantry for distribution.

She decides that one of the best ways to show that she has reached her goal is to share her experiences on her website and invite her peers to join her in working with her at the food pantry.

Learner Agency and Future Ready

Learner Agency means that someone has developed the skills to become an independent, self-directed learner. This learner has created her Learner Profile (LP) using the UDL Lens to identify her strengths, challenges, interests, talents, and passions. The Personal Learning Backpack (PLB) defines the skills. strategies, tools, and apps that will help her become an independent learner.

Future Ready means that the learner knows how to set her own goals, develop action steps and show evidence in achieving these goals. The Personal Learning Plan (PLP) guides the learner in gaining the skills and experiences she needs to support her learning and make choices for college and career. This post provided one example using an older learner who turned her challenges into strengths and enhanced her strengths so she developed the self-confidence to follow her passion for art and in helping others.

We want you to know that you can build a learner with agency at any age by using this three step process. We provide an example of an older child only as a model for you. Consider building a relationship right away with young children by starting with a Learner Profile. Get to know your kids and how they learn best using the UDL lens. Have them share with you their preferences and needs and build a Personal Learning Backpack with them. Then encourage them to choose and set goals with your guidance. Just imagine what your kids can do when they have the confidence in how they learn and that they know how to set goals for themselves. This is the Wow! of learning that we all want for our kids.

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Reserve 15/20/30 minutes daily for digital content skills practice

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Work with students to develop portfolios of work and reflect on the progress of their work over time

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I still have every single project I ever completed in preschool. My dad collected them and kept each one in a grocery bag that he tucked away in the back of his closet. Looking through his collection now, there's nothing incredibly prodigious about the work that I created as a four-year-old boy. I see doodles, collages, coloring pages and awkward attempts at writing my own name. Nevertheless, the story that it tells is special to me.

This is the effect of good portfolios. They craft a narrative of learning, growth and achievement over time. Though mine was created by my perceptive father, often the best portfolios are those put together by students themselves. And as our focus in the classroom continues to move toward performance-based assessment, the following four web tools will help you and your students to compose narratives as memorable of their learning as my paper bag portfolio did of mine.

Kidblog

Kidblog is unique among the web tools featured here because it is built by teachers for teachers. Their website explains that their mission is "to empower teachers to embrace the benefits of the coming digital revolution in education." And as students continue to become creators rather than simply consumers, Kidblog provides teachers with everything they need to help students create their digital portfolios safely. It gives teachers administrative control over student blogs and accounts. Though Kidblog is private by default, teachers can choose to make posts public or password-protected so that parents can view their students' blogs, too. But whether or not they access their child's blog, Kidblog gives mom and dad peace of mind as it is fully COPPA compliant and does not require any personal information from students.

Google Sites

If your school is fueled by Google Apps for Education, then using Google Sites to create student portfolios, or "Googlios," makes perfect sense. With Sites, students can create media-rich websites to display their work throughout the school year. By starting with a template and a site structure in place, students are able to integrate their work with other Google apps to create a comprehensive story of what they have learned. This obviously means that such apps as Slides, Blogger and YouTube integrate seamlessly. And as long as your students and you have Google Apps for Education accounts, you, as the teacher, have administrative control over who sees student sites and how they are used.

Evernote

For classrooms with BYOD or 1:1 initiatives in place, Evernote can serve as a viable option for creating student portfolios. For those unfamiliar with the app, think of Evernote as the Swiss Army knife of organization. In other words, it does just about everything. As opposed to a blog or website, Evernote allows students to write, take photos, record audio, upload content and more with the ability to tag items, create notebooks for organization and share content socially. Something else that makes Evernote so versatile is that it can sync across multiple computers and mobile devices. While students may start cataloguing content into their Evernote portfolio with an iPad at school, they can continue working on their entry from a laptop at home and vice versa. Additionally, Evernote offers a variety of apps, including Skitch for annotations, that all work great together. However, unlike other options, Evernote doesn't give teachers any way to moderate its use by students. Then again, unlike the alternatives, Evernote isn't publicly viewable, either.

Three Ring

A mobile app with a desktop version, Three Ring is worthy of consideration as well. As with Evernote, students can create and upload content from their own devices and tag, search and share their portfolios. However, what Three Ring offers that Evernote doesn't is teacher-created class accounts. In other words, teachers initiate the use of Three Ring in the classroom by creating classrooms within the teacher account and adding students to each class. Students can then access their teacher-monitored account with a username and password provided. Whether from an iOS or Android device or from a desktop or laptop computer, content can be added by the teacher or student and commented on by both. Three Ring even allows parents to view their students' accounts once linked by the teacher.

Regardless of the platform you choose, empowering and authenticating your students' learning with digital portfolios is a decision that you won't regret. Through providing them with web-based space to collect their own work, you will be helping them practice digital citizenship while simultaneously helping them learn important technology skills. But perhaps more importantly, like my dad did for me over 20 years ago, by connecting your students with their own digital portfolios, you will be allowing them to compose a narrative that will not only inform your own assessment of student growth and achievement, but will leave a legacy of learning and who they have become years after leaving your classroom.

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House content online in modular format so that students will be able to work through curriculum at a slightly different pace

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