5 Ways To Make eLearning Stick

5 Tips to Make eLearning Stick

Michael Management Corporation

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Meet Your Host & Speaker

Erin Lett

• Operations Manager

• Joined MMC in 2010

• BA in Communications from Stetson

• [email protected]


Meet Your Co-Speaker

Leslie Bass

• Project Manager &

• Senior Instructional Designer

• Over 25 years IT experience

• Joined MMC as Lead Instructional Designer

• Created hundreds of eLearning simulations

• [email protected]


Designing Effective eLearning

• Countless hours can be spent on designing well

made eLearning courses.

• What’s most important is that the eLearning sticks!

– Learners walk away with a solid understanding of the main objectives

� Storyboarding

� Drafts

� Re-writes

� Mock trials

� Imaging, etc.


• Involving your students is the key to your eLearning being

effective and successful.


• Why do so many fail? Why doesn’t the information stick?

• Most organizations use “passive” training.

- Focus on teaching and not learning.



Doing is “active” learning.

- Responsibility is on the trainees.

I HEAR AND I

FORGET

I SEE AND I

REMEMBER

I DO AND I

UNDERSTAND


• Only learning that has “meaning” sticks.

• To remember/internalize information, it must move

from short-term memory to permanent memory.


Remember

this?


# 1 “What’s In It For Me?”

• WIIFM – Most sought after answer in eLearning

& easiest way to make your eLearning effective.

• Training should be short, engaging and related.

• Employees want to know the immediate benefit

the training has towards their job.


# 1 “What’s In It For Me?”

• How can you know your learners better?- Know what they want

- Know what to focus on

- Know how they behave

- Know how they use information


# 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions

• Keep lessons no longer than 30 minutes, maybe shorter

depending on the scope & topic.

• Break complex training concepts into smaller lessons.

• To improve training retention it’s better to have

small bite size chunks of training.


# 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions

• Test your audience and then fine-tune each module.

• Lesson length should correlate with the topic being covered.

• Deliver shorter lessons, more frequently.


# 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively

• What is practice and why is it so important?

• Practice is simply the act of doing something.

• When you practice, you use your skills and

you build on them.


# 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively

• Retention rates increase the more often you repeat.

• Opportunities/experiences should provide both the

time and context for ideas to be internalized.

• Learners should not only practice, but also repeat!


# 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun

• The absence of a classroom & instructor must

be replaced with engaging & valuable features.

• Include interactive click-through, simulations, live polls, etc.

• Ask questions & teach students how to apply their knowledge.


• Make your eLearning fun with gamification.

- Use of game design techniques and game mechanics to motivate

participation, engagement, and loyalty through rewards, challenges and contests

# 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun

• Employ social media – learners love the real-time aspects.

• Gaming allows employees to take risks!


# 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback

• Evaluate & assess your students on a regular basis.

• Implement quizzes, surveys & assignments that

evaluate student progress.

• Ensure quizzes/exams are challenging.


• Provide students with consistent positive/effective feedback.

• Tell students if their actions are right or wrong.

• Give positive suggestions on how to improve performance.

• Give both extrinsic and intrinsic feedback.

# 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback


• # 5 Student Evaluation & Feedback

• # 2 Break Content Into Bite Size Portions

Summary

• # 1 “What’s In It For Me?”

• # 4 Make eLearning Interactive & Fun

• # 3 Practice & Repeat Material Effectively


Questions & Answers

Have additional questions?

Contact us at (800) 608-0490

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5 Ways To Make eLearning Stick