5 ways to make elearning stick
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Join the Michael Management Team as Operations Manager Erin Lett and Project Manager Leslie Bass explore 5 easy ways to increase the overall effectiveness of your eLearning and ensure knowledge retention. You will learn about: - Evaluating Your Students & Providing Positive and Effective Feedback - Breaking eLearning into "Bite Size" Portions - Answering the Question of "What's in it for me?" - Practicing and Repeating The Material Effectively - Making eLearning Interactive & Fun!TRANSCRIPT
5 Tips to Make eLearning Stick
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Meet Your Host & Speaker
Erin Lett
• Operations Manager
• Joined MMC in 2010
• BA in Communications from Stetson
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Meet Your Co-Speaker
Leslie Bass
• Project Manager &
• Senior Instructional Designer
• Over 25 years IT experience
• Joined MMC as Lead Instructional Designer
• Created hundreds of eLearning simulations
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Designing Effective eLearning
• Countless hours can be spent on designing well
made eLearning courses.
• What’s most important is that the eLearning sticks!
– Learners walk away with a solid understanding of the main objectives
� Storyboarding
� Drafts
� Re-writes
� Mock trials
� Imaging, etc.
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• Involving your students is the key to your eLearning being
effective and successful.
Designing Effective eLearning
• Why do so many fail? Why doesn’t the information stick?
• Most organizations use “passive” training.
- Focus on teaching and not learning.
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Designing Effective eLearning
Doing is “active” learning.
- Responsibility is on the trainees.
I HEAR AND I
FORGET
I SEE AND I
REMEMBER
I DO AND I
UNDERSTAND
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• Only learning that has “meaning” sticks.
• To remember/internalize information, it must move
from short-term memory to permanent memory.
Designing Effective eLearning
Remember
this?
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# 1 “What’s In It For Me?”
• WIIFM – Most sought after answer in eLearning
& easiest way to make your eLearning effective.
• Training should be short, engaging and related.
• Employees want to know the immediate benefit
the training has towards their job.
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# 1 “What’s In It For Me?”
• How can you know your learners better?- Know what they want
- Know what to focus on
- Know how they behave
- Know how they use information
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# 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions
• Keep lessons no longer than 30 minutes, maybe shorter
depending on the scope & topic.
• Break complex training concepts into smaller lessons.
• To improve training retention it’s better to have
small bite size chunks of training.
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# 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions
• Test your audience and then fine-tune each module.
• Lesson length should correlate with the topic being covered.
• Deliver shorter lessons, more frequently.
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# 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively
• What is practice and why is it so important?
• Practice is simply the act of doing something.
• When you practice, you use your skills and
you build on them.
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# 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively
• Retention rates increase the more often you repeat.
• Opportunities/experiences should provide both the
time and context for ideas to be internalized.
• Learners should not only practice, but also repeat!
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# 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun
• The absence of a classroom & instructor must
be replaced with engaging & valuable features.
• Include interactive click-through, simulations, live polls, etc.
• Ask questions & teach students how to apply their knowledge.
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• Make your eLearning fun with gamification.
- Use of game design techniques and game mechanics to motivate
participation, engagement, and loyalty through rewards, challenges and contests
# 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun
• Employ social media – learners love the real-time aspects.
• Gaming allows employees to take risks!
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# 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback
• Evaluate & assess your students on a regular basis.
• Implement quizzes, surveys & assignments that
evaluate student progress.
• Ensure quizzes/exams are challenging.
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• Provide students with consistent positive/effective feedback.
• Tell students if their actions are right or wrong.
• Give positive suggestions on how to improve performance.
• Give both extrinsic and intrinsic feedback.
# 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback
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• # 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback
• # 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions
Summary
• # 1 “What’s In It For Me?”
• # 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun
• # 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively
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