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• 4 Tips For Content Chunking In e-Learning - eLearning Industry

• Content Chunking: The Basis To An Engaging And Well-Designed Course - eLearning Industry

  tags: instructional design elearning content

• 10 Ways To Organize Instructional Content

  tags: instructional design

• Chunking Information for Instructional Design

  tags: instructional design elearning

  • Chunking content is critical because of how our brain appears to work.
  • breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so the brain can more easily digest new information.
  • working memory could hold seven (plus or minus two) chunks of information at once, it is now thought that the number is closer to four, maybe five bits of information.
  • cognitive researchers now know that the capacity of working memory depends on the type of information, the features of the information and the abilities of the person under experimentation.
  • It means that if you are explaining something complex and the learner must hold several factors in mind to understand it, you’ll need to chunk information into bite-sized pieces.
  • eLearning content has to be organized in a logical and progressive way through chunking.
  • Chunking doesn’t only work for your typical linear instruction, it also works for learning objects, for non-linear approaches to learning as well as discovery learning, because it groups together conceptually related information
  • Use a chunking strategy while determining the content hierarchy of a course. Determine how modules, lessons and topics will be organized into a logical and progressive order.
  • Continue with this process until content is broken down to the topic level.
  • Divide modules into smaller related chunks and these will become your lessons.
  • When you have a solid module-lesson-topic structure, organize the content so each screen consists of one chunk of related information. Depending on how you design, this could be at the topic level, at the detailed learning objective level or at the concept level. As a guiding rule, avoid introducing multiple topics, learning objectives or concepts at one time.
  • think in terms of working memory.
  • Fortunately, the visuals and text in multimedia courses can lessen the demands on working memory.
  • Turn Bits into Chunks.
  • Working memory is just as willing to hold four chunks of information as it is to hold four bits of information.

• 3 Considerations When Chunking eLearning Content

  • chunking or breaking-up content is useful for our brains since our working memory (which is where we manipulate or process information) holds a limited amount of data at the same time.

• Content Chunking in eLearning Courses: What Can Go Wrong?

  • analyze the content provided as inputs for the online course, identify relevant parts based on the learning objectives, and organize it in a logical sequence (modules in a curriculum or units in a course).
  • Another major reason for making mistakes in chunking is overlooking or leaving out important information
  • Creating crisp content is made easy if chunking is precise.
  • identify what is to be communicated to the learners and how it is to be presented
  • Determine the content and prioritize the hierarchy; make certain all aspects of learning are covered. Avoid dumping unnecessary content on your learners, instead, structure the content into levels of importance and guide them through.
  • Chunking at the course level is based on the learning objectives of the eLearning course. Once the objectives are in place, topics can easily be put into sequence
  • Chunking is done at 2 levels – the course level and the screen level
  • For chunking at the screen level, it is recommended that each screen must give an account of one learning point or unit.
  • If the learning points are very small, you can explain more than one learning point in a screen, but try to limit to 3-5 ‘learning points’ per screen
  • We need to determine how modules, lessons, and topics will be organized into a logical and progressive order. If not done at the required levels, learners will be forced to go through dumps and dumps of content.
  • If missing out essential information is one, overloading information is another reason.
  • Bite-sized content helps learners master the learning objectives. 
  • Chunking Principle
    • we should have in mind that a lot of what is said applies to training based on slides presenting information. We need to change this for our kind of courses.
  • neglecting to apply the chunking principle is the most common oversight.
  • Stay away from “under-chunking”, remember the chunking standard while organizing content.
  • Regardless of the style in use, ensure that you maintain a consistent tone, while chunking.
  • Rather, it is far superior to chunk compiled material into visual cues or numbered lists or bullet points with subheadings and a lot of whitespace.
  • Titles, headings, and subheadings should all be important and portray what each chunk of content covers.
  • Short passages of 3 to 4 sentences are reasonable and enable learners to absorb information successfully, comprehend ideas better, and hold what has been learned effectively.

• 3 Steps to Chunking Your Online Course | DigitalChalk Blog

  tags: instructional design ID

  • remember to prioritize your content. Determine the main points and the supporting materials, including visuals
  • Simplify your course material to only include relevant and necessary content.
  • keep it simple and do not overwhelm your students with too much information at once.
  • • Bulleted/numbered lists
     
    • Short subheadings
     
    • Short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence
     
    • Short paragraphs, no more than 3 to 4 sentences
     
    • Easily scannable text, with bolding of key phrases

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