From the course: Learning Foundations: Theory to Practice
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Exploring cognitivism
From the course: Learning Foundations: Theory to Practice
Exploring cognitivism
- [Narrator] Imagine that your team has just launched employee training for a new software application that's critical to the organization's operations. The application has multiple interconnected modules and sophisticated workflows that people need to master, but the early feedback on the training is troubling. You're hearing comments like, "There's too much to take in, I can't keep track of how everything connects. I understand it during training, but can't remember it later." These reactions point to a fundamental learning challenge. Effective design is not simply a matter of serving up the information learners need. It must take into account how learners process, store, and retrieve information so that it becomes useful, on the job knowledge. Take a moment to reflect. How might understanding our brain's information processing capabilities help us design more effective learning experiences? What approaches would help learners better organize, retain, and apply new and unfamiliar…
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