Friday’s Keynote at e-Learning Guild Annual Gathering
Social media strategist, broadcaster, writer, blogger
A few notes….
Where are we now?
Social networking apps are used the largest, but the effectiveness is the question.
The most important metric we should be using are did they retain the knowledge and we seem to often measure that least.
Just because you can use a certain technology isn’t perhaps the reason you should.
Beware – “shiny object syndrome”
Most effective elearning that occurs actually brings in blended environments as well.
A lot of learning is done just at our desk. Then we wonder why they don’t retain it.
In all truth we can not possibly be multitaskers. If we hear the phone ring and don’t answer it, it still interrupts our brain pattern and it can take many many minutes to come back to the same productivity level.
Most successful learning takes place in controlled settings, but this thought is against the norm of corporate America. Example students often do homework while listening to music. This actually hinders them from learning.
Elearning often puts people into and environment that says work…not learn.
The brain has limited area to process information. The brain is always recording, but accessing the information is often the trouble.
teaching-disabled environments more significant that ‘learning-disabled’ since learners are very able, just different
Make your learning environment undistracting. Control the environment.
How many passes does the white team make? – Moon walking bear.
We generally believe that to be productive we have to be doing multiple tasks. Asking our learners to multitask messes with their brain. Learn, email, learn, phone call, back to learning – short changes the higher brain function of capturing and accessing the thoughts.
Multitasking is actually focusing you on the act of concentrating. Clear the space instead for the learner.
Mobile Learning:
only 3% of 200 companies using mobile learning have deployed the learning.
Health care will start using learning more and more.