The Reasons to Use Drip Content for Your Courses -

When you're giving a lecture that tells a story, you're doing so by telling it. Topics build upon one another and eventually lead to an conclusion or a takeaway for the learner.

In your role as a teacher, or learning instructor, sometimes you must either speed up or slow down the storytelling process to maintain the interest of your students or increase retention. By ripping the content of your courses, you to tell a better story to your learners.

Drip-feeding is a tactic which gives course designers more control of the learning materials they share with students on the internet. Drip-feeding can be described as timed distribution: Students receive the course material in stages getting access to the material like lesson plans, quizzes, and assignments in a predetermined time. Drip content is a great alternative to learning on demand.

Let's take a look at how drip content can be the most effective method of delivering your training.

      What's the distinction between drip and on-demand courses?      

On-demand learning means that all of your course content is available immediately--learners don't have to wait for new content, and they can skip around to any lesson or topic they'd like. It's like going to a class and receiving all of your homework assignments handed out at the time you arrive.

Although on-demand content allows students to see all of the material at once, it's not always a most preferred method of learning. Some students find the amount of work looming ahead can result in learning paralysis and may even demotivate students.

Rather than allowing access to all the content once, a drip schedule is set up so that course content is made available in a gradual manner over time. For many people, this can be a more beneficial learning experience.

      Advantages from Drip Courses      

Learning through drip courses can provide a lot of benefits , and they can also help create the community as well as increase the retention rate of the customer base.

Enhance customer/learner engagement The gradual delivery of courses allows students to follow their own pace instead of getting overwhelmed by content all at once. This keeps students engaged and will motivate them to come back and with new material to be looking forward to.

Increase trust in your course: Instead of receiving all of the course materials in one day the drip approach offers potential clients the guarantee that you've taken care in the planning of your course design and that you'll support them all the way through. This can help cultivate more retention as well as repeat purchases.

Offer alternative purchasing options: Instead of selling classes individually, you could provide them in packages and separate content in terms levels of proficiency and understanding (e.g. beginner's level, intermediate level, expert level). Bundling your content for different levels of learning adds credibility to your knowledge and gives you more choices in order to customize your content according to the needs and existing skills of your students.

      Creating drip courses with      

Drip content can be complex However, a software similar to this can assist.

Here's a one-minute primer on how to set up drip:

Are you ready to test it for yourself? Try this demofor an outing with three demos to test.