May 27, 2018
When you have a student drop off your course, it can be because of this…
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May 27, 2018
When you have a student drop off your course, it can be because of this…
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Over the years you kind of formulate your opinion on what works and what doesn’t, when it comes to training people or helping students.

However one problem has puzzled many a good designer or instructor, why some students, despite loving the course, drop off and never complete their course or book.

There is a reason, an unusual reason, one you wouldn’t ordinarily think of. Now, if this is the “right” reason it should resolve the problem, right? We found it did this in our deliveries uniformly. Here, in this video, we illustrated the learning difficulty and why it might be your reason too. A theory is as good as its result they say. So do test it out.

So, yes, we are dealing with a hidden literacy problem. When a learner doesn’t understand enough of his course, he will give up and drop off. He won’t tell you, it will be time or money or kids but finding out what he didn’t understand, often restores his interest. We deduct this to be the reason because we helping him to understand, solves the problem. However there is a slow and a fast way of doing this.

There are many ways to find his “misunderstandings” but asking him to define particular key words often works the fastest. You just go through the text and ask, what does ___ mean?

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2018-06-26 05:21:12
2018-06-26 05:21:12

One point made in the video was powerful for me. It is about communication. You might consider the possibility that the operational definition for communication is different for each of us. I try to ask myself how I am going to make a human connection with those I serve through the technology…even if I am using an asynchronous tool. Just a thought.

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2018-06-20 06:56:58
2018-06-20 06:56:58

I would ne honest Captivate is great and there are many reasons to use elearning ss part of your course BUT Captivate on it’s own i.e.. without the management platform isof limited use. I can publish my eLearning on my web site but to track the learners to remind them they are independant learns could be tricky.

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2018-05-28 08:16:55
2018-05-28 08:16:55

It would help if you added some more details: you are talking about which countries, which type of ‘courses’? One of the reasons I embedded eLearning assets in my live training in college was because I looked for a way to push students at taking responsibiity for their learning, to have more personalisation. Encouring peer support and even peer coaching resulted in the most efficient learning environment and eLearning assets were an important part. From the last sentence I wonder if you are still stuck to pure ‘textbooks’?

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