Avatars can be programmed with unique roles, appearances, fashion, or uniforms. Creating HTML5 avatars is now the easiest and most cost effective way to create characters for eLearning.Īn avatar can be the teacher for any course, the guide to content, the expert who asks or answers the questions, the reassuring voice of your customer service organization.
In the internet world we call this User Experience Optimization, creating value through engagement. We are not quite at the hollywood dream yet! However all the best technology in the world is of little use unless eLearning authors can produce avatars as simply and easily as they have been doing, otherwise we likely face a barrier to adoption and the reign of cut out people will continue to the detriment of learners who crave a more compelling and interactive experience. Watching hollywood science fiction movies we are tempted with the ideas of a fully present Artificial Intelligence that can communicate with us freely, become our guide, our teacher and seems to show interest in our progress.
Cut out people, either photos or illustrations have become the defacto standard for many eLearning companies as they can deliver a basic sense of character interaction and be easily authored without the need for a programmer or videographer or a 3D animator.Īdditionally this approach allows for making modifications far more easily than having video re-shot or 3D re-rendered. They may not be quite as good as humans, but they have been good enough for computer gamers for the last 30 years. One key element of this bond, that has been present in games now for 30 years is the avatar the following is a brief overview of the potential role of the avatar in eLearning.Īvatars can be narrators, facilitators, characters, storytellers, game officials, trainers, teachers or whatever you want them to be for the purpose of this explanation we refer to them generically as avatars. Whereas face to face or instructor led training creates a bond between teacher and student, this is often absent in eLearning.
The learning industry is going through a time of change in which computers are replacing traditional learning methods.
0 kommentar(er)
