How to Focus Attention in Adult Learning and E-learning

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Studies show that focus is a key attribute for performance improvement and success in life. Yet today’s modern workplace is full of distractions, from text to tweets. Check out these effective techniques for increasing focus for adult learners participating in e-learning, classroom training, and other learning events.

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The Nine Events of Instructions – Review, What do you think?

Robert Gagne’s Instruction Design Model: “The Nine Events of Instructions” C. Pappas Video

Step 1: Gain Attention

• Capture the attention of those learning (animated tutorial)
• Stimuli that ensure reception of coming instruction

Step 2: Inform Learner of Objectives

• Internal process of expectancy
• List of learning objectives
• Level of expectation for learning
• What will the learner be able to perform after the instruction?
• Motivate the learner to complete the lesson.

Step 3: Stimulate Recall of Prior Learning

• Recall of existing, relevant knowledge
• Retrieval to working, short-term memory
• Previous experience, previous concepts
• Correlate new information with prior knowledge

Step 4: Present Stimulus Material

• Display the content
• Pattern recognition; selective perception
• New content (chunked, explained, then demonstrated)
• Multimedia (audio, video, graphics)

Step 5: Provide Learner Guidance

• Guidance on the new content
• Chunking, rehearsal, encoding
• Assist learners in order to encode information for long-term storage
• Guidance strategies (case studies, examples, mnemonics)

Step 6: Elicit Performance

• Practice (new skills or behavior)
• Confirm correct understanding
• Demonstrating learning
• Retrieval, responding

Step 7: Provide Feedback

• Specific, immediate feedback on learner’s performance
• Reinforcement, error correction

Step 8: Assess Performance

• Post-test, final assessment
• No additional coaching; feedback
• Mastery of material

Step 9: Enhance Retention and Transfer

• Determine whether or not the skills were learned
• Apply the skills that were learned
• Retention, retrieval, generalization

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The Creative Spirit of Design

Instructional Design  & Creativity

• TechTrends
• September 2011, Volume 55, Issue 5, pp 53-58

The Creative Spirit of Design

Abstract

BE010: Jim Julius: Universal Design for Learning in Online and Face to Face Education

BE010: Jim Julius: Universal Design for Learning in Online and Face to Face Education.