Prepare activities

Strategies for making learning active

The ability to provide a wide range of challenging activities and interactions is a feature of e-learning, as you will see in this section of the Gallery. We have divided the activities into two broad groups: recall and comprehend and apply and collaborate.

Recall and comprehend

Building knowledge

For the basic levels of learning, where the activity requires learners mainly to understand and remember information. Some forms of e-learning, such as compliance or product training important in industry, use mostly these strategies for self-paced online tutorials.

Apply and collaborate

Building skills and performance for competence

For more advanced levels of learning, where the activity requires learners to apply the knowledge, analyse results, transfer learning to another situation, and interact with others. The performance-based outcomes (competencies) required for vocational education and training in Australia require these strategies to provide interaction with the facilitator, the learner group and the workplace.