Death by powerpoint... with boring audio!
Sandy Antipas
Tech education specialist and curious guy. Looking for troubles. Making your IT easy for everyone to use.
You've seen the emails from management "Please complete the training for (insert your task) by end of month please" or something similar. And I for one think that training is awesome! It's just that... we are doing it wrong.
I know some training organisations are going to read that last line and say "You're obviously not using our training" and they'd be right.
What I'm doing now is a mix of different training companies and they all are doing the same thing.
Training online has now brought the training Powerpoint session to me where ever I am! And it's usually voiced by someone who isn't a vocally trained athlete. Why is this important?! It's because you don't learn from a teacher.
You learn from a spectacular teacher. Unless you are going to put spectacular on the screen or in my ears, you've taken more of my time and spent more of your money on repetition. Because I have to go over that last portion again, as I just clicked on Facebook while the blah blah guy spoke about something. I know it should be interesting but I just got a (2) thing on my Facebook tab and I need a distraction to keep me awake.
I've spent the early part of my professional career as an entertainer in media. My mother was one of the legendary teachers of many of my early childhood friends and now my wife is inspiring young minds and parents. We are going backwards when it comes to elearning. Who said it is alright and acceptable to learn from Powerpoint with audio. Would you allow your children to learn like this?
Get great teachers for your workforce to learn, don't believe that an expert can be a great teacher. A great teacher can become an expert. Find your gold in your organisation. Make them available for your team to learn from. Get the right video team and animation people together to help with a learning story. Yes create a learning story! Get into making learning a great journey with athletes that can swiftly lift you up to new heights of knowledge and understanding. Take a leaf from what you already know. That you learnt more from two teachers than you did from the other 13.
Oh... the boring voice over just finished. Back to the training, where's the next video?
Design Director at IBM iX
7 年So very true! A voice over or presenter where you can hear and feel the passion and excitement makes all the difference. Especially when combined with great visual prompts and animation :)