10 Ways to Make Learning More Attractive in 2022

Make it active, relevant, and emotional

Earlier this year, I conducted a poll at LinkedIn and asked the L & D community (or at least your community with which I’m involved) what is most important to the learning success of their organization in 2022. Asked.

• Prove the impact
• Improving team ability
• Attractive employees
• Innovative solution

In 41% of respondents, “employee involvement” was a clear priority.

Employee involvement is not surprising at the top of this list, as there are “massive resignations” affecting most organizations and the ongoing challenges of (seemingly) endless pandemics. Raises the question of what learner involvement is and how to create it. Conditions for it to happen?

From my over 30 years of experience, engagement proves to be the crossroads of three instructional design strategies.

Activate it. Make it relevant. Make it emotional.

• Active learning stimulates attention, creates opportunities for feedback, and performs a perceptual and behavioral cycle (also known as practical learning).
• Relevance is important because it helps connect new content and concepts to previous experience and existing knowledge. Our brain then recognizes which scripts need to be modified, updated, or extended (see Scripting Theory).
• Emotions call attention and enhance memory and recollection.

Teaching strategies that attract learners usually check one or more of these boxes. Below is a list of 10 educational strategies you can use to make learning more attractive with Kineo.

1. Diagnostic evaluation

A flashy term for “test-out options” that allows you to tailor your learning experience to reflect the learner’s existing knowledge and make it more relevant. By giving learners the opportunity to test or adjust their learning pathways, they help them focus on what is relevant.

2. Case study

Case studies can provide context and increase relevance. If possible, use real-world examples that are relevant to your business, or create realistic examples.

3. Story

The story also provides context and, if well written, introduces emotions. Inspire curiosity and make people think by leading a story that applies situational judgment in a safe environment. Let them analyze realistic work-related situations and solve problems. Attract people to your content with a highly engaged and creative approach that attracts learners.

4. Branch course

Branching courses allow different users to have different experiences and content that are more relevant to their role, experience, or background. Through learning, different audiences or different channels can be served with different content. We recommend that you use content filters such as role selectors and rating options to provide learners with a personalized learning path based on the learner’s role or the results of the initial assessment at the start of the course.

5. Scenario

Scenarios provide positive learning and, when done well, evoke emotional reactions. You can create scenarios that require learners to make decisions and present their results. Each result has the potential to create new challenges and decisions for learners to take.

6. Performance scorecard

Performance scorecards, which track learner decisions as you progress through scenarios, provide a basis for meaningful, personalized feedback and make your experience more relevant. It shows how learners make decisions when they need to balance some of the potential conflicts. By scoring each competing priority, learners can see how to prioritize their needs and reveal biases.

7. Gamification

Gamification elements such as points and leaderboards can be emotional and intriguing. Using the game mechanics helps you get into the gray areas that exist between what’s right and what’s wrong, but adds risk and outcome factors when learners are working on multiple-choice questions. You can also.

8. Rich media

Rich media elements such as videos and animations can be used to evoke emotions and make complex content easier to understand. Including a combination of different media types will make the learning feel more active as the learner progresses.

9. Strong image

Strong images can evoke emotions and create relevance. Video and animation are not always necessary. Good images combined with the right content can impact the learning experience.

10. Character

By using characters as a means to present content and the voice of a third party, you can even create relevance and emotions. Bring your story to life with characters that you find real and relevant to your business.

Learning and development are at the core of employee experience! So go ahead. Use some of these approaches in your next learning project.

Originally published on kineo.com.