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it doesn’t guarantee the information will be retained. You still need to
apply adult learning principles. A series of 5-minute modules with

each delivering new information won’t help learning stick. But if that
same series applies spaced learning principles and gives students

opportunities to recall and apply what they’ve learned, the learning is

more likely to stick.
Instructional designer Ellen Burns-Johnson said, “We

probably all know people who read article after article on workplace
productivity, but never seem to get any more done with their day.

Shorter articles will not help these folks. Rather, they need help

putting their learning into practice.”

12. Eliminate the “our learners don’t like…” mindset.
Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist at Allen

Interactions, said the “our learners don’t like” claim is usually made

about professionals with post-graduate degrees such as doctors,
engineers, and lawyers. Since these learners have become accustomed

to arduous, text-heavy learning processes, associations think they
must prefer those processes.

“The ‘they prefer to read’ claim excuses us from even
attempting anything better,” said Edwards. “As long as the learners

tolerate it, then we can feel justified in perpetuating a teaching

approach that we simply don’t want to take the trouble or risk to
change.”

His advice: “I challenge you to listen for those statements that
we take too easily as fact and reconsider what responsibility we have

to push our learners into new territory, inspire their exploratory spirit,

engage their imaginations, and discover improved insights instead of
settling for perpetuating ineffective methods simply because they are

tolerated.”

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