E-Learning gets better for everyone when you take cognitive differences into account.
Many E-Learning courses are set up in the same way. Pretty traditional. Text with intro and explanation, images, video and then tests with a number of questions. Sometimes games (gamification) are added to make it more fun.
But what if you are dyslexic and you have to wrestle through a large text before you get to the essence of the training? Or what if you have concentration problems because a lot is happening in your head?
1 in 4 people helps you think differently
Did you know that 1 in 4 people are different, think differently, than the “other 3”. This is often seen as a defect that you can do something about, but that is strange. Actually, it's an opportunity for companies to work with people who think differently. Those who walk off the traditional trails because they find it more comfortable or who walk outside these paths simply because they walk there. Elon Musk is a genius. Right? Involved in the creation of PayPal, founder of SpaceX, Tesla, Hyperloop, you name it. But Elon Musk is “different.” He thinks differently and he learns differently. There are many more people like that. Various companies in Silicon Valley are now specifically looking for people who have aspergers because those people are unique and often have specific qualities that software companies can benefit from.
We've been a big fan of Omdenken for years. Rethinking shows you time and time again that you can look at a question or habit differently. They also wrote a great book about those people who are different: I'm okay, you're a loser.
Use a variety of techniques in your E-Learning courses
You can benefit from setting up e-learning courses by making your course accessible to people who are different. People with dyslexia may be of great use to podcasts and video. Other people prefer to read; people with a certain form of autism may benefit much more from video. People with concentration problems may benefit from more gamification. Learn while playing. By using your knowledge transfer in e-learning in such a way that it works for everyone, you will achieve much more, even for people who do not need it. After all, you think much more about what you want to convey how and it offers every student the opportunity to absorb knowledge in different ways.
An interesting conversation about Neuro and e-Learning
Ambasco is a partner of TheLearning LAB and our goal is to make digital and hybrid learning focused on business use all the opportunities available and stay away from the traditional way of learning as we did at school, where the focus was on a positive test result at the end of the school year. For an employee, a positive test result is not important; what matters is that knowledge is transferred and that behavior changes.
At TheLearning LAB, we make use of all the knowledge that is available and try to learn from everything we see in order to provide a better service. In our LAB, we try out a lot and share this with our customers. For example, Pascal Willoughby.Petit, the CEO of TheLearning LAB in Geneva, is closely involved in a Telco Orange Neuro Program in France.
In the video below, Pascal talks to Mélodie Ardouin, the program manager of the Neuro Program at Orange. The aim of this program is to make the company more aware of the talents of cognitive differences in people. Pascal and Mélodie show what opportunities these cognitive differences offer e-learning specialists.
