Adaptive
learning
Make eLearning more personal and more effective
By Kasper Spiro
About
Why?
We can create better and more
effective eLearning by making better
use of learning objectives. They can
help in:
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designing
personalizing
tracking and tracing
evaluating
connecting to the business
Personalizing
Personalizing
Learning Management System:
• Include the courses in your adaptive path
based on learning objectives
• Capture the outcome (per learning
objective)\
– Determine next step
– report
Authoring system
• Create courses build around learning
objectives (make sure they report into
the LMS)
• Use objectives for tracking progress and
study advice
Didactics
Learning
objectives
Questions
and
cases
Information
Action Mapping
Rules for creating Learning objectives
1. Identify the business goal
2. Identify what people need to do (instead
of need to know), translate them into
actions
3. Design a (real world) activity for each
action that help people practice each
behavior
4. Identify what people really (really?)
need to know, add that information
Action Mapping plus
….
If you use learning objectives you
will add:
• Instructional design support
• A better way to inform the learner on
goals and progress
• Personalize the eLearning experience (on
a course and a curriculum level)
• Connect your learning outcome to business
goals
Identify
business goals
Design the
a specific
course
• Make a business manager the ‘client’
• Start with the learning objectives (and
budget and outcome target)
• Translate them into activities
– Get subject matter experts involved
• Use didactical structure
– Learning objectives
– Questions/cases
– Information
• Keep the business informed
– Be as agile as you can, give demo’s every one
or two weeks
• Deliver course
• Evaluate course
– With the business
Identify
the business
goals
Easygenerator
demo
• Adaptive course from learners
perspective
• How to create an adaptive course in
easygenerator?
Learning process
Objectives will:
1. inform the learner on the goals
2. inform the learner on the progress
3. personalize the eLearning experience
4. report learning outcomes
Personalize the eLearning
– In a course
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Use branching techniques on
question, case or assessment level
Create study advices
Show where to go
– In the curriculum (LMS)
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Use learning objectives to create an
adaptive learning path between
courses
Conclusion
Using learning objectives will:
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change your courses
improve the eLearning experience
make eLearning more personal
make your results measurable
connect learning to the business
Used sources
• Cathy Moore
– Action Mapping:
http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2008/05/be-an-elearningaction-hero/
• Easygenerator:
– Various blog post on this topic:
www.easygenerator.com/blogs
– Instructional video’s and presentations:
http://www.easygenerator.com/elearning-authoring/
– General instructions for easygenerator:
http://help.easygenerator.com
• Kasper Spiro
– Various blog post on this topic:
http://kasperspiro.com
– http://kasperspiro.com/2012/10/03/connect-learningto-the-business-learning-objectives-and-actionmapping/
– http://kasperspiro.com/2012/11/22/returning-to-the-
Contact info
Kasper Spiro, CEO easygenerator
[email protected] (work)
or [email protected] (private)
www.easygenerator.com
Linkedin, Twitter and Skype: KasperSpiro
Blogs:
http://www.easygenerator.com/blogs/
www.KasperSpiro.com