5 Key Features of Truly Engaging eLearning Content
Written by: Phillip Carmichael
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eLearning is a convenient and efficient way to train, reskill, and upskill employees in today’s increasingly fast-paced business environment. As companies around the world have adopted remote and hybrid work models, the flexibility and value provided by eLearning have been recognized and appreciated now more than ever. However, not all eLearning content is created equal.
For eLearning to be effective, it needs to be engaging, keeping learners interested and attentive to ensure that skills and knowledge are transferred appropriately. To help you understand what to look for when purchasing eLearning content to deliver to your teams, we’ve put together a list of 5 key characteristics of truly engaging eLearning content.
1. Relevance
Above all, eLearning content needs to be relevant in order to be engaging. eLearning content should be specific and focused, centered on the programs and applications that learners use every day, as well as other skills that are directly related to learners’ roles, including communication and soft skills. Common software applications such as M365, Google Workspace, and Adobe Creative Cloud are among the most popular and widely used, yet these applications are ones that many workers are not formally trained on. Relevant eLearning centered on the skills and knowledge that workers will use in their day-to-day work, such as these applications, will provide the most engaging experience for learners.
2. Consistent Updates
Many times, eLearning content becomes stale and outdated, covering topics and software features that are no longer applicable. Because both computer software and the global business environment change so rapidly, it’s important to make sure that any eLearning content you’ll be providing to your team is consistently and systematically updated, so that they’re interacting with content that covers the latest software updates and features, as well as topics surrounding current industry trends. eLearning content that’s current and up to date will optimally engage learners.
3. Brief, Succinct Lessons
eLearning content that includes video should be brief and straightforward to hold a learner’s attention. These video lessons should ideally be under 10 minutes long and focus directly on specific tasks or information. Video lessons that are too long will cause learner disengagement, but eLearning presented in a microlesson format has been shown to improve engagement and retention in learners.
4. Multiple Language Offerings
The global nature of today’s business environment requires companies to provide consistent training, reskilling, and upskilling experience to their employees across the board, no matter where in the world they might be. It’s no surprise that offering eLearning content to employees in their native language will maximize their engagement with the material, and research suggests that providing this content in a learner’s native language will help them learn and retain information better.
5. Quizzes and Knowledge Assessments
When learners have completed watching skills training videos or interacting with other eLearning modules, it’s important to ensure that they’ve retained the information presented to them. By offering quizzes and other supplemental knowledge assessments, learners are not only presented with information delivered through eLearning content, but they are actively participating in the learning process by testing their retention of the material.
Award-Winning Training Video Library
Intellezy’s award-winning online video library provides your teams with truly engaging eLearning content, giving them access to our award-winning training video library of hundreds of courses. Our courses are focused on the most widely used software applications, including M365, Google Workspace, and Adobe Creative Cloud, and also cover in-demand power skills, including courses on inclusivity, health and wellness, remote work best practices, stress management, and more.
Nearly all our videos are offered in 20 languages through closed captions and are consistently updated to remain current with the latest software updates. Through our newly designed, world-class platform, learners can access full lesson transcripts in these 20 languages, with the ability to test their knowledge via course quizzes and supplemental assessments. Intellezy’s online video library features thousands of short, targeted microlessons that engage and empower employees at your organization.
Flexible and lightweight, our online learning platform is easy to use for both end users and administrators. Users are able to view videos, courses, and live classes, create & download annotated bookmarks, view course progress, download course projects & files, use our advanced search capabilities to find lessons, and more.
Platform administrators can assign courses to users, creating course campaigns as needed with the option to use custom fields to assign training based on department, seniority, or any grouping they choose. Administrators can also view useful data points that can be used to inform their L&D or training strategy, including number of active users, number of video views (weekly, monthly, or yearly), user assessment performance, popular and trending lessons and courses, and more.
Not only does Intellezy offer a robust online learning library featuring engaging eLearning content to train, upskill, and reskill your team, but we also provide supplemental learning and development services to ensure that you get the most out of your learning and development investment.
Get in touch with us to request your free trial and see for yourself how our award-winning online video library lets you deliver engaging and effective custom eLearning content directly to your teams.