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Engaging learners

Engaging learners

From the course: L&D Foundations: Essential Skills for L&D Leadership

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Engaging learners

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- Designed for experience, not instruction. That's how you engage learners. Let me illustrate what I mean with a story. A few years ago, a client presented my design team with an interesting challenge. They asked for help transforming a two-day face-to-face instructor-led workshop into one that could be delivered online by a virtual instructor in three half day sessions. We started the needs assessment by auditing an online workshop, which used the original instructor led materials. Turned out the learners were not engaged. The delivery was lecture heavy, favoring content presentation over learner activity. The instructor did little to elicit the participant's perspectives, preferences, or learning objectives. There was a lot of instruction, but not much experience. To address these issues, we turned to the science of learning for guidance, knowing that recent discoveries in neuroscience and cognitive psychology had identified four learning variables, attention, generation, emotion…

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