Originally published to eBridge on Wednesday 13
June 2012
I've managed to find a solution to my problems -
I hope! I've got started on Harold Jarche's online course, and I've been
thinking about the Seek - Sense - Share model that he presents for producing
actionable knowledge from the vast amount of information available on the web. In particular the sharing aspect, particularly with people outside of the
original group, gives us a greater chance of being able to find it again, not
only because it's in multiple locations (helpful if one of them degrades!) but
we've also made important decisions about what to share and
how.
Decision making is a vital aspect of learning more deeply, and I'm hoping to bring this into future designs of learning resources, particularly as I've been asked to get involved with some anti-bribery e-learning. The banality of compliance e-learning has been rearing its head in the background for some time, but now I feel ready to take on the beast with a new perspective. I could throw a stream of information and multiple choice questions at learners, but I've come to know better than expecting mere information recall!
Asking people to make decisions and seeing believable feedback can help to make the desired behaviours come more instinctively. Ask people to become experts in quoting rules back at you and they'll either switch off straight away, or develop bad ideas about how to use them because they haven't got the time to become an expert on the subject. Either way you're hitting the limit of time that they have to pay attention to you, which is either little or zero. If you can get them to make a few decisions within an engaging scenario, perhaps a little of the desired message will really stick, perhaps they'll even come back for a second helping - one can only hope!
Keep an eye out for the PKM course running again and remember that it's not just the raw material on the course that counts, but the opportunity to connect with people from across the world.
Decision making is a vital aspect of learning more deeply, and I'm hoping to bring this into future designs of learning resources, particularly as I've been asked to get involved with some anti-bribery e-learning. The banality of compliance e-learning has been rearing its head in the background for some time, but now I feel ready to take on the beast with a new perspective. I could throw a stream of information and multiple choice questions at learners, but I've come to know better than expecting mere information recall!
Asking people to make decisions and seeing believable feedback can help to make the desired behaviours come more instinctively. Ask people to become experts in quoting rules back at you and they'll either switch off straight away, or develop bad ideas about how to use them because they haven't got the time to become an expert on the subject. Either way you're hitting the limit of time that they have to pay attention to you, which is either little or zero. If you can get them to make a few decisions within an engaging scenario, perhaps a little of the desired message will really stick, perhaps they'll even come back for a second helping - one can only hope!
Keep an eye out for the PKM course running again and remember that it's not just the raw material on the course that counts, but the opportunity to connect with people from across the world.
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