{"id":6396,"date":"2024-06-26T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:20:24","slug":"rethinking-questions-in-e-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/l-and-d-tidbits\/rethinking-questions-in-e-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking questions in e-learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great teachers interact with their students.<br>To engage them, not to test them.<br><br>Why don&#8217;t we do the same in e-learning more often?<br>Most e-learning courses still use the standard Course\/Assessment pattern where the questions are used strictly for testing purposes.<br>The questions are also commonly used at the end of learning slides or modules to help learners embed what they&#8217;ve recently learned.<br>But have you ever used a question at the beginning of the course?<br><br>Live trainers do it all the time. You could easily start a course with a poll (and instantly share the results).<br>You can also ask a question about the topic that is going to be explained after the question.<br><br>This makes learners think about the topic but can also make them aware they don&#8217;t know everything and increases their motivation to continue with the course.<br>Last but not least, questions can be used to deliver information too.<br><br>If a learner gets the answer wrong, the explanation following the question can quickly help them understand their mistake (and learn something new).<br>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jollydeck\/\">JollyDeck<\/a> authoring platform provides 15 different question types that can be included in the learning content. It would be a shame to use only multiple-choice questions at the end of the course, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great teachers interact with their students.To engage them, not to test them. Why don&#8217;t we do the same in e-learning more often?Most e-learning courses still use the standard Course\/Assessment pattern where the questions are used strictly for testing purposes.The questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/l-and-d-tidbits\/rethinking-questions-in-e-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-tidbits.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-l-and-d-tidbits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}