You're Never Too Old to Learn....
Your eLearning Should Meet Your Workforce Needs
Adult Learning Theory and Bloom's Taxonomy Inform Instructional Design
eLearning audiences are largely adults in the workforce. Courseware content must be created to meet the distinct learning needs of an older, experienced audience.
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eLearning Engages Adult Learners Through Expert Instructional Design
The learning audience in your workplace is not a group children. They are the employees that drive the operations of your business. If your company is purchasing eLearning, make sure the people designing the eLearning understand how your workforce learns, what their special learning needs are.
HALIGHT understands Adult Learning Theory. Our instructional designers have studied and put into practice the most widely respected adragogical methodologies to ensure adult learners are actively engaged in their education. HALIGHT's pre-assessment of your workplace and workforce learning needs is key in allowing the natural curiosities and learning needs of the workforce determine eLearning courseware content. This method is the key to effective eLearning.
Four Primary Points
There are four primary points to consider when designing eLearning for an adult workforce audience:
- Adult learners need to know why they are engaged in learning something. Adults need to be told how the learning effects them directly.
- The life experiences of adult learners is an invaluable repository of knowledge and know-how that should be used to the advantage of any learning initiative. Adult learners need to be have their prior work and educational experiences acknowledged in order to feel validated and secure in the learning environment.
- A hands-on, tactile approach to learning and problem-solving is more effective for adult learners, as opposed to memorization of facts and figures.
- Applying new knowledge and skills immediately is important to adult learners. Retention decreases if the learning can only be put to some use at some future point in time, or in some hypothetical situation.
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