Engaged Learning

Here is the new definition of e-learning: It stands for 'Engaged Learning.' Forget about 'electronic'. Actually, maybe it should be 'EP-Learning': Engaged and Personalized Learning.

How is that done? Courses? Online? In person? Workbook? Maybe. It all depends. Two of the most important questions when developing learning:

1. What will engage the audience?
2. How will they personalize the learning?

There is the Objectivist view that says that the learning needs to attain specific objectives because knowledge is there, you just need to learn it. On the opposite side there is the Contructivist view that says everyone will learn something different because knowledge is not there until it is created in the mind.

EP-Learning is in the middle. It is a guiding principle. You want them to go toward the end goal and help them learn something, but what they finally get out of it could be different for everyone because of the application. That is the 'personalized' part.

Yet again, this is from the 'training' perspective......

Labels: contructivist, e-learning, ep-learning, objectivist