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# The Road to e-Learning Success

By Allen Interactions | August 23, 2010 | Custom Learning  | 0 Comments

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*by Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist*

This weekend I rode my bicycle in the Moonlight Ramble, a 19-mile midnight bike ride through the streets of St. Louis.  This was the 47th year for the ride and I’m told that typically as many as 15,000 riders participate; I’ll have to take their word for it as there were too many to count!  While I’m glad I rode the route, I couldn’t help but wonder what motivated so many people to come out for an event, that in so many ways, was not really that enjoyable.  It was uncomfortably crowded, it didn’t get going until almost 1:30 in the morning, and the route wasn’t really very interesting. Yet 15,000 people were motivated to enthusiastically finish it.

![Biking](https://blog.alleninteractions.com/hs-fs/file-5412728-jpg/images/biking.jpg?width=262&height=178&name=biking.jpg)We’re faced with a similar issue in training—and specifically with e-learning: how to create motivation in learners to do something that they probably wouldn’t choose to do on their own.  This event reminded me of some simple, cheap, and powerful things that we too often fail to do when implementing e-learning courses.

 

So while you continue to strive for improving the actual instructional design of your e-learning, don’t forget that there a lot of things that have comparatively little to do with actual instruction, but everything to do with achieving success within your organization.

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