Let’s say you have boring, but important, content.

It’s dry and not inherently interesting… and there’s a lot of it.

You try to make something fun, but it immediately dissolves into death-by-PowerPoint nonsense.

What do you do?

First, I’d shake those assumptions.

There’s no such thing as boring content, because ‘boring’ isn’t a real thing. Boredom is – it’s a reaction to something someone doesn’t find engaging.

Nothing in this world is boring to everyone.

That means there’s someone out there who’ll find your content fun.

Does that help you if most folks find it boring? Maybe not, but it’ll stop you seeing it as a hopeless, uphill battle.

The problem isn’t in the subject matter or the details you have to teach.

It’s in the delivery.

Luckily, there are three easy ways to make your eLearning more engaging… no matter how tedious your learners expect it to be.

You can incorporate these into any course – even if it’s as low-tech as a text-only forum.

It won’t add much (if any) to the time it takes to deliver.

And it’ll make your course work for your learners.

Sound too good to be true?

Like always, there’s a catch – it might take some deep thinking and a little work to implement these.

Okay, here we go:

The first and least powerful of the three is contrast.

All the best course designers know throwing a wall of text at your learners is a mistake.

But sometimes you have a lot of content you want to get across.

If you have to use this approach and can’t think of a way around it, change what your learners look at.

After a wall of text, the next slide/page/whatever could be a simple diagram.

Or a graph.

Or a chart, table (without too many words) or meme.

If each slide looks different, it can keep your readers engaged, even as you bombard them with a firehose of information.

Like I said, this is the weakest approach of the three… but it sure beats giving them nothing but endless paragraphs to read.

On to approach #2:

If you hate your content, you might be tempted to say something like:

“I know it’s Friday and I’m really sorry about this, but I have to read from the textbook. It’ll be boring but in order to certify you, with have to cover all of these points. Sorry.”

That’s why I told you to stop thinking about your content as boring. This awful delivery helps no one.

Instead, you could say:

“Welcome to the best part of the week, everyone! You have your textbooks in front of you, which have all the answers you’ll need in the future. Today, I’m going to go over a few of the more relevant parts for you. And who knows, we might just finish early and get a head start on the weekend!”

Same content, huge difference.

That’s why the second approach involves enthusiasm.

How do you get your dog excited?

By talking about its favourite treats – that is, focus on the content?

No – you could talk about anything with enthusiasm and they’ll like it.

I’m not saying your learners are only as smart as dogs. But humans and dogs get bored or interested in the same way as each other. If something doesn’t spark emotion in you, it’s clearly not worth paying attention to.

Do your learners a favour and show a little passion.

Approach #3:

I’m sure you know about the curve of forgetting – that graph that shows a week after your course, your learners will forget 90% of what you told them.

That research is true but it’s not the full story.

To test that, researchers got people to memorise dry facts – usually a list of random words.

But not all content is created equal.

Stories are highly memorable.

They’re more engaging to the brain and they help your learners contextualise the information. When you go into a case study of how someone used what you’re teaching them to make a billion dollars, they’re better able to remember and apply what you tell them.

Case studies, war stories, anecdotes – any of them will make your material fun and memorable.

I don’t care if you only teach over Twitter – you can use these three approaches to make even the most boring content fun.

This is one small part of my eLearning philosophy. With my Fun, Friends and Flexibility model, you can use 12 powerful principles to make any learning, in any medium, more engaging and effective.

Covering all the key points, as well as the context of the class 10 chemistry syllabus, Learnflix has it all, giving students the best all in one app for the class 10 CBSE chemistry syllabus. Well, the CBSE Class 10 exam is one of the major defining milestones in a student’s life, bearing in mind this point, the content of the CBSE Class 10 Chemistry syllabus has been designed keeping these points in mind. Thus, in this one app it covers the concepts of chemical reactions and equations, acids, bases and salts, metals and non-metals, carbon and its compounds and periodic classification of elements, etc. All of which are imperative for students appearing for their board to know, in order for them to do well in their exams.

Over the past few decades, the influence of technology upon students and education and the learning process has been impacted, and seen a change that is immense. While there are a lot of applications available at the app store, choosing one like Learnflix is the best option for the student, as they understand their students the best, their attention span and factors that are important to the students. The process of learning, through Learnflix has been designed in such way that it engages with the student and gives them a chance to think and thus be able to absorb, apply and learn at the same time.

Experts say that apps in education can make children more interactive and activate better engagement between the students, also it has been learnt that students are able to learn better in a n environment they feel safe and comfortable in. Thus the most effective way is to engage with the students, whilst they are learning and when, that is whilst they are using the app; interaction between the students are enhanced by mobile applications.

Thoughts of traditional methods of learning accompany a generic feeling of boredom, whilst students prefer a change from the generic monotonous learning patterns of restricted and upright book learning, learning from Learnflix is like a breath of fresh air, as it is the place where Chemistry is broken down for the students in a way which is easy for them to understand, this and also the theoretical aspects of different Chemistry concepts are well integrated with the experiments based on them. This results in better comprehension as well as real life application of the concepts. In addition, different types of assessments, sample papers and other learning materials help students prepare well for the board’s exam.

The power of digital world lies in the ginormous number of resources that it is filled with, the assignments, sample papers and an array of facilities that help give a boost to the Students to do their very best, making optimum use of the vast amount of wealth of knowledge on this platform, which can be implicated by its popularity among Class 10 CBSE students. The reach of this platform makes it a favourite to students who are preparing for their 10th grade CBSE exams, as it is a one stop solution for them as it provides learning, as well as practice test for chemistry. Those who have made use of this app have been given access to, Chapter1 f chemistry, which covers Chemical Reactions and Equations, Chapter2, consisting of Acids, Bases and Salts, Chapter3, which touches on Metals and Non-metals, Chapter4, that’s based on Carbon and its Compounds Chapter5, which is the Periodic Classification of Elements. These are just the broad classifications of all the chapter, inside each section is a broken-down version of each chapter with added information.

Unlike school, online learning applications are available round the clock, with no need to be worried about schedules. Anywhere can be a classroom, your home, your car, a part, well it can be a classroom. App learning is not a time-bound learning experience, as it is relaxed learning, which modern research has called the best way to learn.

Computer-Based Testing – This Changes Everything!

Although still unofficial, the three Mechanical PE Exams are scheduled to transition to the year-round Computer-Based Testing (CBT) format starting in January of 2020, and the five Civil PE Exams will transition in 2023. This change in the testing method for the PE Exam has huge consequences for anyone taking the exam. To help you understand how this will affect you, I will be outlining the implications of the CBT exam and giving you my advice regarding this change.

Here’s the bottom line up front – take the Pencil-and-Paper exam now, before it’s too late.

NCEES first introduced Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for the FE Exams in January 2014, and it has been expected that they would move to this format for the PE Exams, but until now no transition schedule had been established. Now it has. Some CBT exams will be offered year-round. In this category, the Chemical PE Exam transitioned to the CBT format for 2018, and the Environmental PE Exam is scheduled to transition in 2019, with the Mechanical following in 2020 and Civil in 2023. Other CBT exams will only be offered one day a year. The Nuclear PE Exam falls into this category and has already transitioned to the CBT format. Over the next five years, about a dozen other PE Exams will transition to the CBT format offered one day a year.

The NCEES says that transition dates for all the future transitions to CBT will be confirmed one year in advance. Along with the confirmation, the official NCEES Reference Handbook for the exam will be made available for download in PDF format. With the introduction of this new Reference Handbook, there is also the possibility that there could be changes in the exam specifications.

The most significant consequence of the CBT exam format for examinees of the PE Exam is that no personal reference materials will be allowed into the exam facility. The only reference that will be available to you during the exam is a searchable PDF of the Reference Handbook, sharing half the 24-inch computer screen with the PE Exam itself. For the Chemical PE Exam, the PE Chemical Reference Handbook is almost 600 pages, so the Mechanical and Civil handbooks will most likely be similar in length, if not longer. Let that sink in. Think about how that limits your ability to prepare for this exam and what it means to have only one, generic, on-screen reference to help you solve problems during the exam.

It is clear to me that the most viable response to this change is to take the PE Exam before this transition takes place. For Mechanical, that means only two more exam taking opportunities: the April 2019 Exam and October 2019 Exam. For Civil, it means a few more years. After that, the only choice will be the CBT format. Change is indeed coming, and I will be addressing the specifics and consequences of those changes in future posts, but from what I can discern, the new format is going to present you with an exam experience that is more daunting and one for which carefully preparing and choosing your exam references will no longer give you an advantage. My advice is to take and pass the PE exam now if you can before the change takes place!

CBT Means No Personal References During Exam

In the long history of the PE Exam, you could bring almost any personal reference to the exam facility. I remember when I took the exam many, many years ago, a fellow examinee rolled in with a steamer trunk full of books. In the face of that long-standing tradition, the upcoming transition to the CBT format is very disconcerting indeed. In this new format, you will not be allowed to take a single reference to the exam with you.

Not one!

Instead, you will be presented with a searchable PDF of the NCEES Reference Handbook, sharing half of the 24-inch computer screen with the PE Exam itself. And this reference is likely to be many hundreds of pages long. For the Chemical PE Exam, the Reference Handbook is almost 600 pages. The thought of getting to be familiar will 600 pages of information is almost incomprehensible, and printing it out gains you little or nothing, because that’s not how you will have access to it during the exam.

With the old format, which is now referred to as a Pencil-and-Paper exam, the process of assembling the reference materials to take into the exam was a vital part of your preparation. Deciding what to take and preparing your references for easy access to information, required much thought, resulting in better retention of that information. I have seen this consistently in many years helping engineers to pass the PE Exam. The more effort our students put into preparing and organizing their references, the better they do on the exam. Beyond the exam, the materials you generate in preparing for the PE Exam are also materials you can use once you became a licensed professional engineer. It is unfortunate that the CBT format will make that effort obsolete. No longer will you be able to enter the exam with the sense of confidence and accomplishment that you had collected, created and brought to the exam the materials that you needed to succeed, and leave with a wealth of materials you can use in your life as a PE. I’m afraid that, instead, there will now be merely a sense of just surviving the CBT exam experience.

There is clearly an advantage in preparing for the PE Exam with materials you gather and create yourself, as well a great reward in passing the PE Exam knowing you were the one who compiled the reference materials. And for these reasons alone, my advice is to take and pass the PE exam now, before the change takes place!

The CBT Exam Experience Versus the Pencil-and-Paper Exam Experience

Understanding the difference in the experience of taking a CBT PE Exam and taking a Pencil-and-Paper PE Exam is an important consideration, because, for many people what keeps them from passing is the nervousness generated by the exam experience itself and not their lack of understanding or ability to solve problems.

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