From the course: Components of Effective Learning
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Powerful and weak contexts
From the course: Components of Effective Learning
Powerful and weak contexts
- Now let's see what a context-based CCF design actually looks like. Now remember, context heightens motivation, and it facilitates the meaningful transfer of learned skills, really important stuff, right? In your work, you can use context to stimulate learning in a variety of ways. Let me give you some examples. You could require the learner to solve problems and actually do things. You can use a timer for learners to beat while completing a task. You can dramatically demonstrate the impact of poor performance and also good performance. Really, I'd like to see you do all three of those things. As a designer of learning experiences, you can employ some simple prompts, case studies, and apprenticeship models to inspire the transfer of skills where the learner takes the content and applies it to their actual job. Rather than giving learners one shot at learning a new skill and amassing all the practice activities into…
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