Published on August 21, 2009 by Karen Letain in News
Human beings are learning machines: our survival has long depended on our ability to take lessons from experience and change our behaviour as a result. Why, then, is so much training today focused not on experience but rather on overly dense PowerPoint slides and lecture-style presentations?
If everyone agrees that learning needs to be interactive and hands-on...why do we then insist on continuing with the same boring classroom style lecture lessons? Why have our methods continued to lean toward the dull and mundane?
Learning new concepts needs to be interactive. Hands-on, just-in-time training is critical to developing not only knowledge but also skills—ensuring that learning is sustained.
Published on August 03, 2009 by Karen Letain in News
If you are considering instructor led vs. e-learning methodologies for your next security awareness training class, it might be interesting to note that it has been indicated that only 15 minutes of a one of a one-hour instructor-led class is relevant and therefore the class may be only 25 percent efficient because the learner had to sit through 45-minutes of unnecessary material. If an e-learner is able to skip 45-minutes of material, or pass a pre-assessment test, allowing them to focus exclusively on the 15-minutes of new material, the efficiency of the online class would equal 100 percent. It is this efficiency that gives e-learning the 2:1 time advantage it enjoys over instructor-led training, according to Brandon Hall.
