A Blended Learning Approach Is Best Bet To Help You Master Your Learning

Web-based learning is quickly evolving as the premier training option to save time as well as costs. If you’ve ever considered taking a web-based course, chances are you were reluctant to get started. If you have taken a web-based course, chances are you did not complete it.  With all the hoopla about online learning, this article will explain the necessary ingredients to a successful experience from the perspective of the learner.

 

The Reluctance Factor for Potential Online Learners

 

There are a variety of reasons why people are hesitant about enrolling in an online course, but chief amongst these are the impersonal nature of interacting with the computer. Besides needing to do much of our work today interfacing with a pc, too often people will view online learning as a technical challenge that only “techies” can navigate. With the evolution of research of how online users approach the page, and then combined with properly designed programs, online learning can be a fun, self-directed and rich source of personal and professional growth. When programs are designed with the user in mind, technology can actually serve the learner in being able to track the learning experience. This can then help the learner progress successfully, and deliver the training in a very cost-effective manner.

 

Another major reason for reluctance is the “impersonal approach” versus the interactivity in a live class experience. Although nothing will ever fully compare to a live face-to-face experience, as many complain about, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Unfortunately, the mass of online learning programs are designed with no real person available in times of a learner getting confused or stalled because of not understanding something that was presented in the course. The learner has no expert to turn to and ask a question.  When this happens, dropout of the course is a logical choice for the learner.  Furthermore, much of the web-based offerings are a boring set of screens full of text requiring too much reading and full of assumptions about the learners knowledge, or lack of, adding to the frustration and boredom of the learner. The learner thinks, “Why should I spend my time and/or money in this one size fits all approach.

 

Why Blended Learning is Best

 

Blended learning is an amorphous term whose definition varies in the mind of the individual.  Many organizations are offering so-called blended learning approaches that have any of the following mediums combined to help the learner to mastery:

 

Discussion boards

E-mail support

Live web broadcasts

Online Powerpoint presentations

Chat rooms

Availability of an “expert” or teacher through e-mail, phone, or web meeting

Asynchronous (availability at any time over the web) web courses usually in short time periods of up to 2 hours

Shortened Live face-to-face training sessions combined with any of the above mediums

 

The revolution in online learning is still young. But the research shows that a well crafted online web-based approach combined with some of the other mediums mentioned, can greatly enhance the learner’s experience and insure mastery. When programs are designed to adapt to the individual’s learning style preferences and can deliver help according to those preferences, the learner remains engaged. Engaged learners stay and completion ratios skyrocket. Multi-media and multi-sensory approaches to learning are critical to mastering something as technical and behaviorally different as Mastering Information Overload.

 

The component parts to Mastery of Information Overload are:

 

• Handling incoming print materials
• Moving Decisions along promptly in dealing with those document pieces
• Tracking and creating memory and recall to use the information
• Better handling of electronic documents including reading for what’s necessary, deciding, and moving the information forward
• The mere physical moving through all this information
• Understanding the information
• Learning any new system, process, knowledge area, problem situation, etc., in an increased efficient manner
• Better time management, and prioritization thinking and behaving
• Increased attentiveness
• Increased listening and note making, and decision making with others
• And much more

 

The Learning Pieces to Mastery:

 

• Multi-sensory approach – visual, auditory, and kinesthetic involvement
• Interactivity with the subject material online
• Immediate and cumulative feedback to the learner
• Tracking of users experience with immediate and individualized feedback
• Access to a live Coach
• Review of user’s offline use of skills
• Feedback between learner and coach and vice versa
• Multi-channel communication systems using a variety of electronic and real time mediums.

 

Using the above approach will insure a learner’s successful bridge to a new medium of learning.  More than at any time before, real learning can happen in a much more accelerated fashion. Individuals can, with proper individualized approaches and coaching master any skill desired in this new approach to learning. The step to online learning is often met with great trepidation. But if the learner is engaged with material that is well presented with the other mechanisms for ongoing support and transfer of skills, a blended approach is perhaps the smartest thing to do today.  The “Dynamic Speed Reading, Memory, and Recall Masters Online Program” utilizes all the above mediums and insures the learner of a successful outcome. As of this writing, not one learner has complained of boredom! We believe we have overcome the reasons of reluctance to guarantee an exciting, challenging, and life changing experience for the learner. If you haven’t taken the program yet, you have nothing to lose, and so much to gain!

 

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