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Learning objectives are like metadata – useful but best left unseen

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Rephrasing the objectives as questions that this module will help you answer is just as effective at providing salience (Thalheimer ibid). If a learner does not know something, will seeing a learning objective including terms they don’t know only confuse them more? What’s the way forward? Have learning objectives.

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Are confidentiality concerns holding back the e-learning industry?

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Showing a few screens of a module proves that the provider has not invented their client list and that the screens are demonstrating a variety of interactions, and well-designed menus but not much more. When potential customers ask vendor for examples of e-learning they’ve designed, this could be for a variety of reasons: 1.

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Talking about my generation…effect

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The longer the course/ module the more that learners will get bored and frustrated by devices like this. Training courses and e-learning modules are longer events so you need to be careful about how you extrapolate what the generation effect says. By all means follow Justin’s advice…but in moderation is best. . .

Cognitive 100
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Mind the gap: culture vs. good practice

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He cites the example of his firm providing International Financial Reporting Standards e-learning and how he’d like to approach it. “I We would then provide some topic based e-learning modules which would be relatively short and cross linked to enable them to be used as a resource afterwards.

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Is Enterprise search the answer to L&D’s interruption problem?

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Let’s start by recognising a problem inherent to the conventional model of L&D, which I call the “interruption problem” To access L&D’s services, a learner is taken out of their workflow to go to a training course, webinar or e-learning module. Compliance? And what was the password?…).

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Advanced personal learning? Can we get solar power instead?

From the Coleface

The approach of segmenting a target audience e.g. by Honey & Mumford learning styles, MBTI, learner maturity or other models has typically been done in an over simplistic way e.g. If I self-report as a Pragmatist will doing modules designed for Pragmatists be the best learning experience for me?

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Learning Science Laundering

From the Coleface

We had to do a module on Anti-Money Laundering” Much as I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been involved in making compliance e-learning more interesting, there’s clearly quite a lot of page-turners still in circulation.