Written by The eLearning Industry is rapidly changing and there are numerous Learning trends for 2014/15. Here are my top picks. Part 1, 7 – 10: 1.
7. Is User experience that important?
You are in the wrong industry if your need to ask that… There is “user experience” and “great user experience.” It’s imperative to lean towards the latter as training trends tend to engage and entertain while they train. The importance of User Experience has become an emerging field and an area of competition among today’s available platforms. eLearning Professionals, Instructional Designers, and Instructors, need to take full advantage of the ongoing User Experience advancements and have to fully adopt this paradigm in order to design and develop engaging and entertaining learning experiences that result in higher learning retention.
8. Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning provides a better user experience as it brings a higher level of personal interest right? There is an increasing demand to give more control to the end users. End users want to interact with learning environments that meet their need for autonomy and control. In the advance of adaptive learning technologies, these need to be utilized with any learning platform.
9. Games aren’t for kids anymore
They are for CEOs, Managers, Employees and potential clientele. Gamification is the new “me too” in the eLearning industry. Gamification is the use of game thinking and mechanics in a non-game context to inspire employees and students to get engaged in the learning process. It has taken corporate training to a whole new level, by facilitating learner engagement, reducing the stress associated with learning, and boosting the information’s durability.
10. Often overlooked, even shunned is Social Learning
The internet IMHO has changed social to more of a gang mentality…….but I digress. It’s social, but only in your “gang” of friends or interest groups. Social learning made an entrance in the eLearning Industry simply for reasons of alternative resources and enhanced learning, and it works. Social learning creates better training environments, encourages “outside collaborative” learning, facilitates communication and enables sharing – beyond training.