What do I want as a learner?

I prefer a learning environment that provides me opportunties to:

• Assimilate content at my will.
• Listen to an expert on the topic.
• Watch an expert deal with the task in question (if the learning is problem-solving/task-oriented).
• Interact with an expert.
• Listen to anecdotes, stories, real experiences, and points of view related to the topic.
• Practice the task in a simulated environment (if the learning is problem-solving/task oriented).
• Practice the task in a real environment (if the learning is problem-solving/task oriented).
• Interact with others interested in or pursuing similar topics.
• Reflect on and analyze new learning in relation to existing and evolving knowledge constructs.
• Articulate my own interpretation and position on the topic.
• Continue building on the learning, both formally (research) and informally (reading in a non-linear manner, exchanging ideas, listening to others, etc.).

What do you want as a learner?

(Anil Mammen is a Senior Instructional Design Consultant at Tata Interactive Systems.)

Comments

[Archana Narayan]

As a learner, I want the following:

* Self-paced learning

* Complete control over navigation

* Intersting and innovative exercises

* Challenges, rewards, and punishments

* An opportunity to experience the consequences of my mistakes

* Customized course with relevant content

* Examples, scenarios and case studies that I can reate to

* Characters to whom I can relate

* Opportunity to explore

* Innovative presentation of content

* Selective audio (Not for every line on the screen)

* Minimum content (Not text heavy)

* Scents of information (tells me what is coming next)

* Learning by doing (if application based)

Archana
Lead Instructional Designer
Kern Communications Pvt. Ltd.