Presentation: "eLearning Sucks"
This will get you all out of your seats and screaming … I hope.
I found this totally by chance just as I was about to close the PC down for the day. I got my weekly email from SlideShare and in it was a list of people who’d bookmarked a couple of my presentations.
“Interesting, ” I thought, “I wonder who else they’ve been looking at?”
That’s when I found this … “eLearning Sucks”. I did not write it … but wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments contained within. Enjoy!
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Ah, another “e-learning must be fun” evangelist. Care to show any research that making “fun” e-learning produces better results? While some reasonable reminders are made in this presentation, I just hate the evangelism comparing e-learning to the gaming community. As Guy Wallace would say… where is the research?
Hey, what’s wrong with having fun? I agree with David on this one. In my company, LearningWare, Inc., that’s what we focus on. Though there may not be mountains of research saying “fun” learning produces better results, no one could argue that fun learning doesn’t produce better experiences. And there is research that shows that a better experience increases content retention.
I urge people to check out products like AllPlay Web and Gameshow Pro. Your webinars don’t have to be boring; your classroom training doesn’t have to involve sleeping students. It’s OK to have fun and it’s OK to engage people and create competition.