eLearning Heroes #403: Using Accordion Interactions in E-Learning (2023)
I finished this fairly early in the week but didn’t get to the video recap until late! This was a fun challenge I was eager to tackle because I always do enjoy a good accordion. Honestly, these are just all creative ways of chunking information, acting like the instructor with no one present, silently guiding the learner to construct knowledge through steps and examples, one bit at a time, so they aren’t drinking from the firehouse, but it’s what rapid authoring tools do best, frankly.
I selected my topic this time (Bear Safety) based around an onboarding course I’m developing inspired by friend who worked in a park setting in summers (not local to me, as we don’t have Grizzlies in Florida….though I have seen Black Bears in my county, in the more remote neighborhoods) as “more bear training” was apparently a request she got more than once! She doesn’t work there any longer in summers so no real use to this, but she helped me find a few SMEs and some resources to build out some fun hypothetical stuff. These are just excerpted for the challenge but it was the first bit I wrote and developed. I am planning a scenario though, at some point.
Alt Text: This is a slide from a Bear Safety Training and the images depicted are bears, trails, and people hiking. The Accordion Slide says an acronym: SPLIT (Stay Calm, Pick Up Kids, Look For…., Identify Yourself, Take a Detour).
Check out the example:
Takeaways: I love the examples for this one and the other accordions—so many ways to set these up! I always like challenges where I get to use layers, triggers, focus on building stuff. Those feel more straightforward to me, though I probably grow a lot from the other ones, like the Google Doodle one I just tackled (video and post soon) in coming up with ideas and visual designs.
The 5 hour limit was hard for this one, but I will go back to these slides to build out a project, so that makes me feel better. I’m really happy with these as a starting point and excited to tackle a related project now!
Time Clocked: The full 5 hours this time, about 3 of it on writing/selecting images/designing and about 2 in development and Q/A.
