Comments on: Making learning meaningful? https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/#comment-995394 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:43:31 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7445#comment-995394 In reply to Paul Miller.

Paul, couldn’t disagree more. It’s not about the tech. It’s about the cognitive and emotional components, and we’re not addressing them. I think if you get people motivated, they’ll find a way to learn. Yet we don’t do it at all, or only superficially.

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/#comment-995391 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:41:52 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7445#comment-995391 In reply to Kent.

Stay tuned! Will be doing a session at the Learning & Development Conference on it (still in development), but briefly it’s about making sure it’s meaningful to the learners (lots to unpack, e.g. WIIFM) and to the domain, make it safe, challenge…see previous posts on engagement (https://blog.learnlets.com/?s=engag).

]]> By: Paul Miller https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/#comment-995362 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:47:17 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7445#comment-995362 Wake me up in 20 or so years when the hardware and software have made VR/AR a practical reality for education. For now the experts only seem to quibble about micro differences between learning methods. Too costly to implement and nobody willing to make radical changes necessary. Make that 30 years, more realistic.

]]> By: Kent https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/#comment-995189 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:46:16 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7445#comment-995189 Clark,
Great post. Quick question… What do you consider the key characteristics of “meaningful learning”? You mentioned “personally relevant”. Are there other key characteristics?

Regards,

]]> By: Jason Aydelott https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/06/making-learning-meaningful/#comment-995188 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:46:00 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7445#comment-995188 Thanks, Clark, I wholeheartedly agree that we often do start on the wrong foot. I can’t count the number of times managers have asked us to design and deliver a learning solution for performance issues that were not skill-gaps. Before accepting a “training order” from a manager or SME, we need to take a human performance consultant approach. At a minimum, we should do a quick root cause analysis to find out why there is a performance gap, or indeed if there really is a gap in the first place.

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