Since you posted this in the Adobe Captivate forum, I tried to give some general tips without referring to a specific tool. I don't know which type of situation you'll use the interactive courses, about which type of topics and for which audience. Short explanation: my situation was both in a university college (18-23 yrs old), and for adults in building companies. I was the SME myself, and the eLearning courses were used in blended and distant learning. In the first case I still had contact with my students and that was a win-win situation. As female professor in college where 99% of the students were men, I was lucky because my reputation was to be honest and they knew they could tell me their opinion honestly as well. Particular situation.
In my first answer I forgot to mention that - as you are used to interactive teaching - do not forget the social component. I used even Twitter (now X) with my students, but needed to teach them how to use it properly (had a Captivate course for that purpose). We had a LMS in college, but the discussion forums on that platform were not liked very much.
Topics: I started by creating interactive software simulations for which my chosen tool is quite well designed. You can capture an exercise in three modes: pure demo (can be converted to an interactive video), training, assessment. Part of the work will be done for you, including adding scores. You'll need to edit.
For other interactivities have a look at this Captivate output which I created based on a webinar for Creative Adobe Cloud users, who wanted to learn about eLearning:
https://blog.lilybiri.com/interactivity-in-captivate-back-to-basics
Audience: very important as well. Coaching adults who didn't use a smartphone nor Internet from childhood is completely different for the more recent generations. However something remains the same: everyone likes competition. In that sense I am not completely agreeing with the other comment about 'flashy gamification'. Developing games is hard, but adding gamification elements like a progress bar is not that hard, showing obtained scores neither.
Control over learning paths: one example can be starting with a short pretest, based on the result let the learner skip some content. Do not impose fully the sequence, provide possibility for branching. And do not bother too much about all those hype theories, learning styles (once a hype) were abandoned very quickly as I predicted decades ago. Do not spend time on theoretical approaches and be careful with AI (I use it myself but with caution). Your skills and experience as teacher have a lot more value, give yourself time to experiment, learn a tool and find some learners who can help you with feedback.
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