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Interactive elearning examples including case scenarios, branching, storytelling, gaming, assessments and more to inspire your elearning designs.
Patient Management
SB Studio
Healthcare practitioner training
Nurses-in-training must diagnose and treat patients. Employs intrinsic and delayed feedback, enabling students to learn from their mistakes.
Using Computer Ports
SB Studio
Hardware/device training
Help a colleague quickly set up a laptop for an important presentation. When a mistake is made, receive intrinsic feedback via a loss of time and the colleague's visible frustration.
Make the Sale
SB Studio
Sales and product training
This example teaches sales representatives how to profile potential customers. By asking potential customers good questions, representatives are able to match a potential customer to a standard customer profile and thus use needs-based sales techniques.
Information Security
SB Studio
Compliance training
You need to run to a surprise birthday party for a colleague, but first, secure your desk so that no sensitive information is at risk. Multi-step tasks mimic real-life decision-making, and a timer adds a gaming element to increase engagement.
Customer Service Scenario
SB Studio
Micro learning branching conversation
This micro-learning example allows you to choose what to say to a customer to deal with a difficult support situation. Each choice will lead you down a different path to a conclusion. A summary table at the end provides coaching for the choices you make.
Threat Modelling Game
Plum eLearning for Google
Team-based game
Gamification can make elearning more fun and engaging. But how do you design an elearning game that goes beyond fact-based recall to have a deeper impact on your organization? See how Plum eLearning developed this award-winning, team-based game for Google that has had thousands of players and great measurable results. Read the gamification case study for additional details.
Virtual STEM Experience (New 2024!)
Bohlsen Group
Virtual STEM adventures to enhance real-world learning
These elearning STEM activities were designed to accompany real-world activities at a Girl Scout camp. The modules, delivered via iPads, provide girls with an alternative medium for learning and help them retain the information they learn during the physical experiences.
Ace the Interview
SB Studio
Scenario with social elements
In the physical world, people discuss topics and learn from each other. What if you could bring some of that dynamic into elearning, even if people are taking it at different times? This example demonstrates how responses from other learners can be used to make elearning more engaging and impactful.
Customer Service Video
SB Studio
Video analysis
Watch a video of store associates assisting a customer. Identify and describe behaviors that should be improved, then compare your responses to an expert's.
Software Simulation Tasks
Plum eLearning for Netwatch
Software simulation
These three examples teach learners how to configure software that controls security cameras. After completing the practice mode, learners can try the task-based assessments to demonstrate proficiency. Gaming elements include performance meters, hints, and correct/incorrect counters.
Eye Surgery Practice (New 2024!)
Plum eLearning
Physical procedure scenario
In this learning-by-doing example, eye surgeons review patient disorders and perform corrective cataract procedures. Key desicion points are simulated including which instruments to use at each step and where to make incisions and injections.
Chemical Safety and Hazard Communication
Plum eLearning for Barton Health
Compliance and safety training
Employees learn how to handle chemical spills through realistic situations. Activities include realistic contexts, multi-step tasks, and feedback that learners encounter in their jobs to support real performance.
DVR Component Connection
Asurion
Hardware how-to simulation
Learn to connect television components by simulating the cable connections that must be made in real life.
IT Certification Training
CompTIA
Scenario based questions
Apply various IT skills in six realistic scenarios. Each scenario requires multiple decisions using combinations of drag-and-drops, fill-in-the-blanks, radio buttons, checkboxes, and dropdown menus.
Healthcare Gifts and Gratuities
Plum eLearning for Athena Compliance
Ethics and compliance training
This elearning uses humor and gamification to make a potentially boring topic more engaging and memorable. Healthcare employees must race against the clock to identify situations that require investigation of gifts and gratuities that may be inappropriate.
HIPAA Privacy Training
Plum eLearning for Athena Compliance
Ethics and compliance training
As various people ask you for patient information, you must decide whether or not to provide access. Branching logic is used to provide different follow-up questions based on your initial selections.
New Product Testing
Plum eLearning for a Global Tech Company
Policies and procedures training
This course is a fictionalized version of a real course for a global tech company. The course is a requirement for employees wishing to join a program for internal hardware/software testing.
Aviation Alphabet Game
SB Studio
Corrective feedback drill-and-practice
This example uses the corrective feedback paradigm (CFP) to sequence problems. Numerous studies have shown that spaced repetitions are more effective than non-spaced repetitions for improving learner recall. If you complete the game, you'll find that you really do remember the correct answers. Try it out!
Nature of Light
Vivint Solar
Equipment simulation
This elearning example allows learners to see the effects of different wavelengths of light on a solar module. By dragging a slider, learners can see how wavelengths affect photons and the amount of power produced.
Solar Power Conditions
Vivint Solar
Equipment simulation
This elearning example gives the learner control of the conditions at a house with a solar system installed. Learners can change conditions such as weather, time of day, and direction to try to generate the most power.
How Solar Works
Vivint Solar
Physical process explanation
Ever wonder how a solar system works? This lesson will show you!
ROI Calculator
SB Studio
Sales job aid
Calculate a personalized ROI for an elearning authoring tool based on its costs and savings. Then, use the Q & A feature to answer your questions or concerns.
Software Simulation Models
SB Studio
Software simulation
Try out four interaction models for software simulations: Show Me, Let Me Try, Step by Step Challenge, and Whole Task Challenge.
How You Spend Your Time
SB Studio
Dynamic Chart for Performance Support
Enter how you spend your time in a working day, then view a chart of your data compared to census averages.
Responsive Checklist
SB Studio
Responsive performance support app
A checklist app to help new employees. Click each task for helpful details, then mark the status as “Not started”, “Working on it”, or “Done”. The app uses xAPI to remember progress across sessions.
Appropriations Law
Plum eLearning for a US Government Agency
Policies and procedures training
Learners must apply procurement law policies in various scenarios. Activities include realistic contexts, multi-step tasks, embedded coaching and links to the procurement law knowledge base that learners use in their jobs.
Survival Game: Six Sigma Principles
Lynx Learning
Process management training
In this compelling scenario, learners must use process management principles to survive a plane crash in the mountains.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Active Mind Solutions
Compliance and safety training
Learners must demonstrate that they are able to discern which situations pose risks, identify who is at risk, and decide the best course of action to address the risk.
Effectively Communicating with Children
Active Mind Solutions
Communications training
Adults working with children learn how to communicate effectively using a variety of contextually relevant interactions.
Good Record Keeping Practices
Active Mind Solutions
Record management compliance training
This elearning piece teaches good record-keeping practices using authentic documents and scenarios. It requires learners to make meaningful decisions and provides delayed feedback.
Distributing Documents with Health Information (New 2024!)
Plum eLearning for Athena Compliance
Ethics and compliance training
Learners are hospital employees who must provide patients with the proper discharge papers. Delayed feedback is used to make the scenario more realistic while giving learners the opportunity to reflect on choices and change selections.
Identifying Transaction Codes
Plum eLearning for U.S. Army
Enterprise software training
Learners must identify transaction codes in a supply chain application in order to get supplies to soldiers in the field. Gaming elements and rich feedback are used to motivate learners.
Working with Interpreters
Hennepin County Human Services
Interpersonal communication
Practice using interpreters to communicate with clients who don’t speak English.
Diabetes Case Challenge
Veterinary Information Network, Inc.
Clinical healthcare case assessment
Using actual clinical data presented in a case format, learners must diagnose and then select appropriate treatment options.
Blackbeard's Treasure: Scuba Principles
SB Studio
Safety training
Scuba divers use their knowledge of pressure and volume relationships to recover Blackbeard's treasure, or die trying.
SmartBuilder Quiz Game
SB Studio
Fact-based recall game
This adaptation of 'Jeopardy' includes additional motivating elements. Besides just displaying earnings, gauges show how daring and consistent learners are. Learners also buy prizes with money earned, inducing them to return and try again.
Movie Madness
SB Studio
Assessment with gaming elements
So you think you know movies eh? Put your knowledge to the test with this trivia challenge that includes timed scoring to spice things up.
Choosing an Output Indicator for a Six Sigma Project
Lynx Learning
Process management training
This elearning transforms a complex and dry subject into a meaningful learning experience by helping learners practice and learn from their mistakes within realistic scenarios.
