Creating Impactful eLearning with Avatars

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From role-playing to reducing learner anxiety, avatars offer significant benefits to learners. Garima Gupta shares how thoughtfully-designed avatars can play an important role in eLearning and significantly enhance learning experiences.

 

Show Notes:

Garima Gupta explains that avatars play a crucial role in making eLearning experiences engaging and relatable and help to humanize the content and make it more interactive for learners. She offered these additional key points.

• Customization and Personalization: Customizing and personalizing avatars to reflect the diversity of the learner population can enhance the connection and relevance of the content. 
• Planning for Avatars Early On: Don’t think of using avatars as an afterthought but instead plan for how best to use them when you create your storyboard.
• Benefits of Avatars in eLearning: Avatars bring learning stories to life, and that is one of their biggest benefits. They have the unique ability to speak directly to the learner.
• Providing a Safe Place to Learn: Using avatars in eLearning can be more effective than in-person training because it provides a safe and personal training environment to interact with an avatar.