Apr 5, 2010

Perspective: eLearning boredom can change

Consider:
"As we develop learning solutions for our customers, we encounter an ever-increasing resistance to LMS-based eLearning. Learners are tired of sitting through 160 slides of content. Managers are tired of people taking eLearning and not having skills to do their job. Business owners are beginning to relegate eLearning to simple compliance (“so we can say we did it”)
courses.

They have valid complaints. The vast majority of eLearning is not designed to drive performance improvement. The reason for this is simple: Most eLearning replicates the worst practices of education electronically: lecture and multiple choice tests."
http://www.q2learning.com/collateral/WP-Beyond-LMS-20091202bb.pdf
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eLearning can and will be a fantastic learning tool especially for under-developed countries with masses of people without any recourse, i.e. money, for higher education...or even education on how to just use the internet for their own benefit.

But... as the old saw goes, back to basics. Back to thinking from the USER'S POINT OF VIEW!! Happily, that's where CocoLoco began. I'm more and more confident it will soon find a home.

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