Bloom's Taxonomy Builds on The Human Element of Learning

The human element can be very easily overlooked in the creation of eLearning—and it often is. All the interactive technology in the world can't save you if your courseware isn't connecting with the people sitting in front of the computer screen.

Understanding how people learn is obviously integral to the success and veracity of any learning project. If you want to create engaging, valuable learning, you have to meet the learner at their level, and be able to raise them up.

HALIGHT has developed training across an expansive spectrum of industry, service and retail. One of the key factors to our success is understanding the necessary learning-audience connectivity needed, and how different trainings require different learning methodologies.

Bloom's Taxonomy

Learning mental skills, manual skills and attitudinal disciplines that support a business's brand image, corporate values, and mission statement, while increasing business profitability are the major thrust of the Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domains (levels 1, 2 and 3) of Bloom's Taxonomy.

The Cognitive Domain—involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills. There are six major categories of cognitive learning. By their nature, they must be learned in order starting from the lowest degree of complexity, moving towards mastery of the highest degree of complexity. The Cognitive Domain engenders the higher level thinking and decision making that distinguishes the best-and-brightest from the generally skilled.
The Affective Domain—encompasses learning and growth in the areas of emotion and feeling: how people approach, cope with and comprehend attitudinal modes like appreciation, enthusiasm, motivation, and empathy. In short, the Affective domain and its subsequent categories of learning pertain to the individual's value system.
The Psychomotor Domain—pertains to physical movement, and coordination: the acquisition and application of motor skills. Development of these skills requires practice and is measured in terms of speed, precision, distance and depth-perception, and execution techniques. The Psychomotor, or application learning categories encompass practical, hands-on-style competencies.

The Benefit of Bloom and Instructional Design in Your eLearning

It's clear to see how instructional design informed and backed by these learning principles, this level of instructional detail, can benefit your business's eLearning curriculum.

HALIGHT instructional designers approach every eLearning project differently. Each business has separate, distinct, and uniquely sophisticated eLearning needs. However, it is a testament to the strength and insight found in the learning theories put forward by Benjamin Bloom that our instructional designers use his three domains of learning to great client benefit in nearly every project we engage.

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