Learners: Prospective EFL instructors

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My Roles: Instructional Designer, e-Learning Developer

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Tools Used: Articulate Storyline, Audacity, Camtasia, Canva

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This was the first module I ever built in Articulate Storyline. There are a few design decisions I would make differently today given my deeper knowledge of adult learning theory and instructional design best practices.

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First, I wouldn't have used narration, text, and graphics all at the same time. Presenting the three simultaneously puts unnecessary strain on a learner's cognition. Instead, I would have stuck with only narration and graphics for long passages of writing and only text and graphics for the smaller chunks of writing.

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I feel the Camtasia tutorial that I included speaks down to the learner by explaining how to navigate the module. e-Learning developers should be cognizant of UX/UI principles to create an intuitively navigable experience. I believe I have done so with this one, so there is no reason to explain to learners how to use it since they can effortless do so themselves. I should have instead used the Camtasia tutorial to provide pre-training in EFL instruction, as I did not use any sort of coaching during the rest of the lesson.