Have you ever seen a person driving their car with a rear view mirror full of ornaments, fiddling with a map, or worse…their phone? Or maybe the radio is blaring or there are rowdy kids in the backseat.

As we all know, distracted driving is dangerous and can ultimately lead to a major accident.

Does your eLearning course distract your learners? If your eLearning has too many areas of focus, your learners may lose focus entirely.
 

Learning is much more effective when you’re not trying to do it by yourself. This is one of the places where it’s helpful to distinguish between workplace learning and school learning. I spent a lot of time in college studying for exams by myself. But really, that wasn’t so much “learning” as it was simple memorization of facts.

Many people in the learning industry make the same mistake I made when first introduced to the concepts of learning games and gamification. I thought they were the same thing.  They’re not.  In my case, a wise Creative Director pulled me aside and educated me on the differences between them.  That lesson has been invaluable to me as I work with clients to drive engagement and participation in learning. Let me see if I can do justice to that lesson and pass it on to you.