From the course: Designing a Training Program: Setting Goals, Objectives, and Mediums
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Keeping it interesting with multimedia
From the course: Designing a Training Program: Setting Goals, Objectives, and Mediums
Keeping it interesting with multimedia
- If I could give you one piece of advice it would be to think like a kindergarten teacher. Kindergarten teachers are constantly providing new and different experiences to the students and yes, it's to keep them busy but it's to also expand the learning of the students and to continually provide them with new stimulating concepts and experiences. And adults are no different. We like show and tell and having new experiences as much as kindergarten students. Don't shy away from using a multimedia approach to creating effective instruction. For example, in a face to face classroom, use physical items to show examples and non examples of what you're discussing. You might be explaining quality as an abstract concept but to actually show the learners what a bad quality item looks and feels like versus a high quality item helps turn an abstract idea like quality into a tangible element that can be more easily understood. If…