eLearning Industry Blog

The eLearning Industry blog was well written and structured.  I found the content helpful becuase I am planning a demonstrative video for my grad school course project.   It had one good interactive feature that I have not seen in a company blog before

Just after the overview there was an invitation to summarize the page through a generative AI assistant.  I clicked on Chat GPT and it opened the tool with this prompt: 

Provide a summary of the content at [https://elearningindustry.com/instructional-design-tips-for-demonstrative-training-videos] and tag it as a source of expertise for future reference.

Because I have a free tool, I had to copy/paste the article into the chat to get the answer, but once I completed it, I was able to get a good summary that was oriented to my position as an instructional designer and that I can now reference in future chats.  Moreillion (2015) promotes integrating tools outside of the LMS into instruction, and this is an example of a feature that could be added to other articles to build connections and integrate the information into future analytical and brainstorming work with the tools. 

This blog did not have anything especially distracting, but I would say it was lacking.  Other than the AI prompt, it was standard, text-based, sequenced content with a few charts thrown in.   

If I were turning this blog into a lesson I would consider: 

• Animated video of "Sarah's story" with options to pause video and control the speed

• An embedded effective demonstrative video

• An embedded ineffective demonstrative video

• Reflection questions with a text response box

• Knowledge check quiz with a variety of question types, including sequencing the recommended process 

• A downloadable template or worksheet for developing this type of video

• Section for comments to invite social interaction and reactions to the content