When a course gaps the bridge between learner and educator with right content the results are clearly seen with high test scores, retention and performance. Such courses remain engrained with learners and educators for some time.
The way a state of art course with all the frills of social media, web 2.0 used to optimum with poor content is a failure so is the course with best content with no frills of these technology. To get your e-learning right you must be able to get a balance - balance of content and technology!
But then to get this balance we must be able to grab attention of user. A bright flashing light by the driveway is good enough to grab your attention to a strawberry vendor but then the broken van, shabby seller and rotting strawberry won't get you engaged enough to stop by and buy. So the core mantra to get your e-learning right is a right balance between attention and engagement :)
Now imagine the same flashing bulb on the drive and a perfect strawberry truck with great strawberries and great seller by another end, it does no good either as before the driver notices the truck he will be either distracted or bored or probably both.
Grab attention of your users with right technology and content titles and then engage them with ease of your easy to understand content presented with a choice of right options with e-learning. But the key here is to be sure that don't get them distracted or bored with superfluous graphics and videos. Perfect balance will help us get e-learning right!
