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I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 3

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Part 2 discussed five outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices and why they don’t work. Here are five updated practices that will help improve your Learning and Development for everyone, not just millennials. Focus groups can fulfill a similar role, but are usually more concerned with a course’s content.

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Custom Content vs Off the Shelf

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Custom courses can be role specific, and highly personalized to your organization’s processes and procedures. Requires significant development resources and staff. Some topic areas, such as employee soft skill development and management development, might not require that level of customization. You own a custom course.

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The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned From Instructional Design

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There are many different industries and many different roles within each one. This is true of more complex job roles too, not just entry level. This is true whether or not the customers, other departments’ employees, or Learning and Development are aware of it. They told me they were fine with that.

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Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap

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Within this model, Billy can modify his learning profile to target that new role. In addition, the social learning network adapts to connect Billy with others who can help him develop and grow. The model instantly maps his competencies with the new competencies required and creates a new learning journey.

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The student will become the master! But how? Adapting the Feynman 3-Step Mastery Technique to Online Learning

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So step one: we want the learner to take an active role in teaching the material that they’ve learned to someone who hasn’t learned it, which is perfect for scenario based learning. Consider giving your learner the virtual role of explaining the new policy or skill to another new trainee. Step One: Teach It Simply.

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PowerPoint or Prezi: Which is Best for eLearning?

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Both programs are designed as presentation tools, so either one should be able to fill that role. Giving a presentation in front of a live audience at a workshop requires a different set of features and considerations than, say, building a self-paced course.

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Don’t Just Tell, Show: the Value of Examples

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There are a number of ways to put examples to work in your association’s eLearning: Present case studies. Include testimonials. Show data, charts, or other visuals that support the idea. Play a video. Use example scenarios with characters to illustrate a point, instead of making generic statements.

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