The first concurrent session that I attended this morning was
Ruth Clark's talk about Evidence based Training. Ruth talked about moving from fads and fiction to facts about the use of multimedia in training and education. Ruth as usual was her confident, articulate self and displayed some wonderful research and evidence that contradicts a lot of traditional wisdom
What did I learn?
- Learning styles are overrated and a waste of time. There's no relationship between someone's learning style and their eventual performance on the job. eg: being a visual learner doesn't mean that you will have a high recall of an image.
- Liking a session has no correlation to an individual's learning in the session. A highly rated session may not be the most effective.
- People need the bare minimum detail to apply the learning. Extraneous detail is confusing (war stories, anecdotes, etc) and while immensely likeable, can hurt learning.
- Tips for use of multimedia in elearning and training:
- Graphics with text create the highest impact learning because of the dual encoding phenomenon. This is a great mode for novices and apprentices.
- Audio narration is proven as the most effective method of providing descriptions to graphics. This should be the default on elearning courses, with the ability to pause, and turn off.
- Simple line drawings are much easier to recall than complex 3D pictures.
- Stills are often more effective than animation, to explain how things work. In such situations, animations put the brain in a passive state and create extraneous mental load
- Videos are proven to be effective in teaching social skills and motor skills and to show examples.
1 comments:
Thanks for the summary. I went to a different session but this was very helpful.
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