This is such an important point! This antagonistic attitude towards reading is juvenile. It reminds me of how weird I find many click-to-reveal reading activities - those ones where, instead of just showing someone text, we insist that the user clicks each item to see it. Imagine if books were like this! We don't expect books to be like this, so why do we thing it needs to be this way in elearning? It's like an admission that the content is so boring that we have to force you to interact with it.
I definitely agree that our industry, but also social attitudes toward reading now are growingly concerning.
I can, in certain contexts, see the value of a click and reveal when used to deliver progressive disclosure in a meaningful way, or to separate information (i.e., looking for the specific thing you're looking for in a wider selection of options). When it is simply everyone the same thing, we are just going to make you click to reveal it, absolutely a complete waste of time and really just built on the fallacy of:
This is such an important point! This antagonistic attitude towards reading is juvenile. It reminds me of how weird I find many click-to-reveal reading activities - those ones where, instead of just showing someone text, we insist that the user clicks each item to see it. Imagine if books were like this! We don't expect books to be like this, so why do we thing it needs to be this way in elearning? It's like an admission that the content is so boring that we have to force you to interact with it.
Gamification's poor cousin, perhaps?
I definitely agree that our industry, but also social attitudes toward reading now are growingly concerning.
I can, in certain contexts, see the value of a click and reveal when used to deliver progressive disclosure in a meaningful way, or to separate information (i.e., looking for the specific thing you're looking for in a wider selection of options). When it is simply everyone the same thing, we are just going to make you click to reveal it, absolutely a complete waste of time and really just built on the fallacy of:
clicks = engagement
engagement = learning
learning = ability