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Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz

Posted by on Wednesday, 27 October, 2010

Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the “what” (or content), but also the “how” (the delivery mechanisms). Integrating funny quiz (like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”) into eLearning course is an easy way to capture the attention of learners and make your course memorable. Learners will interact with key concepts for your course quickly.

A funny quiz can energize almost any content and produce powerful new understanding for your learners. Funny quiz promote learning – more than revive tension, it creates opportunities for the learners to “interact” with the quiz so as to demonstrate learners’ understanding of the course. Many benefits would funny quiz holds to course:

Funny quiz entertains learners with a purpose Funny quiz gives learners valuable feedback Funny quiz givse trainers feedback Funny quiz motivates learners Funny quiz accelerates learning process

So then, there comes into the question: how to integrate the right funny quiz into your course? Let’s take a look at the following steps.

Step 1 – Identify your course objective.
Which objective you want your lesson to achieve after training, please take careful consideration. Specifically, what skills and knowledge do you want your learners take from your lesson. Then think about it how the funny quiz will help the learners meet the course objective.

Step 2 – make the course plan
After determining the objective, what you should do is making the course plan according to the course objective. Analyze and list the task you wish to cover in your lesson plan. Supposing you are going to explain the details about swine flu in one lesson, you list would look something like this:
Lesson objective for swine flu knowledge: learners will be able to master the details about H1N1 flu.