8 Tips to Improve the Learning Experience

There was a time when learners used to enrol in training sessions and spend several days in a training room with a trainer and their peers. They would then go back to work and try to apply what they had learned in their workspace.

?Today we are witnessing the development & usage of much richer tools & technologies to impart such training. Furthermore, with an enlarged range of relational and numerical interactions: learners can use their smartphones in the classroom nowadays. They can take part in various digital activities upstream or downstream. They can also exchange their ideas and share their knowledge with others in a peer learning environment.

?In this digital era, the question “Is the teaching method suitable?” is no longer adequate. It is essential to put oneself “in the shoes” of the learner, locate possible irritants & seek to eliminate them.

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?Below are the 8 top tips to improve the learning experience:

?1. ???????Step into the learner’s shoes

2. ???????Move from knowledge acquisition to transfer

3. ???????Move from the educational staircase to emotional scenarios

4. ???????When possible, record your lessons

5. ???????Improve the experience: simplify learner interactions with all digital interfaces

6. ???????Shorten your presentations

7. ???????Provide information in multiple ways

8. ???????Make sure your assignments can be done virtually

?Let us discuss each one of them in detail below.

?1. Step into the learner’s shoes

The first step in developing a successful user interface is identifying who your target users are. You can use personas to guide decision-making, set priorities for design elements and test scenarios

2. Move from knowledge acquisition to transfer

Learners can now expect to spend more time in the learning process. The two-day event has been traded for long stretches of five or six days, where they will be able to explore new tools with an expert who is there every step along their journey and help them revise what was learned previously while also providing some guidance on how best to use these programs.

3. Move from the educational staircase to emotional scenarios

Learners generally assess their experience on an emotional peak felt during and at the end of a process. This means it's essential that we make sure there is excitement in our last stage.

When training is finished, it’s important to provide learners with an engaging experience so that they will continue using the tool. We can do this by congratulations for having applied knowledge or simply thanking them for finishing something valuable in their lives!

4. When possible, record your lessons

When possible, try to record your lessons so that you can watch them later on when there are no other obligations. This will help sick employees or those who missed class because they were busy, among other things!

5. Improve the experience: simplify learner interactions with all digital interfaces

Learning and adopting new practices require effort but accessing training should only involve minimal additional steps. Interfaces designed by UI/UX experts streamline navigation: removing extra mouse clicks, single sign-in, synchronisation of notifications, customization of the interface by the user themselves based on their needs & access for multiple devices.

6. Shorten your presentations

The average attention span of a person is 20 minutes, but this may change depending on age. If you are trying to teach younger learners (especially those learning through video), then it’s important that they have more retained information. So it is always advisable to look for ways to break up your presentations.

You can also incorporate music, videos, games, and fun quizzes to hold the attention of the employees.

7. Provide information in multiple ways

Creating an e-learning experience that is both engaging and accessible to learners of all abilities should be a top priority.

Learners will be able to ask you questions about what they're learning, but this isn't possible in an e-learning environment. Make sure the lessons are available in different formats & presented differently so everyone can understand it and make lesson transcripts available for download if needed!

8. Make sure your assignments can be done virtually

You can quickly discover if an assignment will work in the virtual classroom by testing it out on another instructor. If they respond positively and your plan seems reasonable, go for it! Improve the experience: simplify learner interactions with all digital interfaces

Conclusion:

To design a relevant and captivating tool for learners, we need to think about whether our designs generate positive emotions (i.e., generate excitement) or simplify the experience. Right now, however, it is more important to make the best of a bad situation & ensure the learning experience is as positive as possible so that learners are more engaged and they can retain most of the information.

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