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NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

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During an interview about a week back I asked the project manager about the audience for which the training courseware would be designed. But the problems that continue to arise in public education are magnified when boomer type instructional modalities are used to pitch information at millennial students. Organizational Intolerance.

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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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And in my many years building learning, whether facilitated instruction or elearning it’s a cardinal rule that instructional designers need to know many aspects of their target learner’s personality traits. The sample below is a screen from a course designed by engineers with no input from a learning designer.

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BACK IN THE LEARNING SADDLE

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Most importantly taking distance from learning – and especially elearning – has allow me the perspective about how and why learning now looks the way it does. Firstly, the line between a learning designer and learning developer has been eradicated. If you can’t run Captivate et.al. Boy am I dating myself).

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