Articulate Rise 360 - Mobile-Friendly eLearning

Leaning into my expertise as an ESL (English as a Second Language) Educator, I created this concept project to help intermediate level adult English learners who struggle to understand more formal styles of writing and who want to be able to improve their own writing skills. This lesson covers what the passive voice is, when and why people use it, and how to create a passive voice sentence yourself.

This is a multimedia lesson, including not only the interactive elements of Articulate Rise, but also audio files used in the exercises. Following Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning, and as I am a professional voiceover artist, I recorded the audio prompts myself for a more human approach. Additionally, I was careful to use accessible, everyday language to make it easier for learners to grasp the content.

After identifying my audience and the performance problem that I wanted to help solve, I chose to design this training using Articulate Rise as the authoring tool as it is accessible to screen readers, interactive, and allows for a natural flow that mimics how we typically consuming information online (scrolling). Once I had developed a first draft of it, I sought feedback from my colleagues and repeated the ADDIE cycle in making adjustments before settling on the final version.

As a result of completing this training, learners would be able to identify and distinguish between passive- and active-voice sentences and construct passive-voice sentences themselves. This would allow them to participate in the workplace or higher education spaces more fully.

(Follow the link above to try it out and/or click the video below for sound.)