Introducing a collaborative element to the learning experience can allow learners to connect meaningfully. This could take the form of message boards, forums, a Teams group or joint activities where learners can solve problems collaboratively.
Check out this range of platforms for collaborative working. Could you incorporate any of these into your next training project?
Gen Z are more practical and financially phone number egypt driven than other generations.(5) When we think about online training, this means that they’re not going to enjoy training for the sake of training (and who does!?). Gen Z learners need a valid motive that ties into a real-world goal or benefit.
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A DO not TELL approach
Rather than focusing your eLearning on what you want your learners to know, focus on what you want them to be able to do. This means not overloading your eLearning course with heaps of information, then shoving a multiple-choice question at the end and calling it a day (no judgement – you’re not the only one!). It means presenting the learner with a series of relevant activities with optional information they can draw on as and when they need.
In this study on productive failure, students with some knowledge of a discipline were given a problem without being told how to solve it. They struggled, their solutions were examined, and then they were taught the correct process. Though these groups were slightly weaker at applying the new process than the groups who had been told what to do from the beginning, they were better at applying what they learned to other situations and – crucially – at developing additional approaches that they hadn’t been taught. The ‘do’ approach to training better equipped those learners to apply and then move beyond their new knowledge.
A quick example of a ‘tell’ approach is having learners watch a video about what items should be included in a first aid kit and then complete a multiple-choice quiz on that content. This is simply testing whether the learner remembers the information in the video, but it may not be the most effective way of ensuring that they can pack a kit correctly.