EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Instructional Design, Personalization

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC 240
• Professor: Malcolm Whiteway

Document Summary

Strategies for making technology-based training effective: develop job-focused curriculum, make learning interactive, offer support material, prepare learners, prepare managers, support learners, monitor and report results, evaluate, enhance the course. Learning and retention (and transfer) is fostered by incorporating the principles of sound instructional design in the design of technology-based training. Incorporate principles of adult learning: active practice, conditions of practice, make training experiential and interactive, games, computer simulations, role play. Customization: tailoring instructional elements to meet trainee preferences and needs. Personalization: structuring the program so that trainees feel that they are engaged in a conversation with the program. However, a choice will have to be made as to which technology to adopt as the main medium. Can using technology help solve the problem?: the budget and resources available, the existing training and development platform (does the organization have an lms, an. Technology is not to be used to merely attempt to recreate a classroom environment.