Web Game Shells: Instructional Design Tips

Step 1. Decide to which of these three domains your learning content belongs:

1. Facts and Information

A fact is a simple bit of knowledge or information. It is usually in the form of a statement that specifies a relationship between two or more objects, actions, or events:

Water boils at 100 degree centigrade.
The population of India is one billion.

Facts are mostly related to other facts and other types of knowledge.

2. Concepts

A concept is a set of objects, events, actions, characteristics, or ideas that share critical attributes and belong to a specific class that is identified by a common label.

Triangles
Autocratic leadership

For every concept, you should be able to provide multiple examples. (If you cannot, you are probably dealing with a fact.)

Concepts are frequently in a hierarchical framework

Shapes Triangles Equilateral triangles

3. Procedures and Processes

A procedure is a step-by-step skill that is performed essentially the same way each time.

Brushing your teeth
Writing an email note

A process is a sequential flow of events.

The change management process
The creative problem solving process

Playground: Become more fluent with these three different types of learning content by playing the DOMAIN GAME.

Step 2. Follow these suggestions for each type of training content:

1. Information and Facts

CHOICES with multiple choice questions
TIC TAC with questions resulted to different subtopics
HANGMAN (multiple question) with fact recall questions
CATEGORIZE (True or False) with statements to be classified as true or false

2. Concepts

CATEGORIZE (categories) with different related concept labels and examples to be classified.
HANGMAN (single question) that requires recall of examples
TIC TAC with questions classified according to different concepts.
CHOICES with questions related to critical and irrelevant features of a concept.

3. Procedures and Processes

SEQUENCE for arranging steps, stages, or phases in the right order.
CATEGORIZES (categories) to classify items (inputs, activities, standards, outputs) according to the step (or stage or phase) associated with them.
HANGMAN (single question) for recalling items associated with different steps (or stages or phases)
TIC TAC with questions related to different steps (or stages or phases)