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27 Nov, 7 tweets, 1 min read
Never forget you’re dealing with adults

Frame everything you do around the motivational needs of adult learners

Malcolm Knowles formulated 6 assumptions related to an adult’s motivation for learning

🔽quick thread 🔽
🔰1 - Need To Know

Adults need to know the reason for doing something
🔰 2 - Foundation

Experience (including trial and error) provides the basis for learning activities
🔰3 - Self-concept

Adults need to be responsible for their own decisions in learning
🔰 4 - Readiness

Learning subjects must have immediate relevance to work and/or personal lives
🔰 5 - Orientation

Adult learning is problem-centered rather than content-oriented
🔰6 - Motivation

Adults respond better to internal versus external motivators

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A lot of people ask me, what kind of questions do you ask when ghostwriting an online course?

So I decided to make a running list. Here goes...
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3 is the sweet spot for retention. Any more and you risk them missing one

You can also apply this per module or lesson of your course
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9 Nov
Emotional connection produces motivation

For students to become and remain motivated, online courses must satisfy four conditions:

☑️capture and maintain attention
☑️hold relevance
☑️promote confidence
☑️deliver satisfaction
Check out my tweets earlier this week about Attention.

For Relevance - knowing the prior knowledge levels of your audience is key

See more here -

And here -

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Promote Confidence by including knowledge checks and opportunities for feedback throughout.

The more often your students can test themselves and get recognition for progress, the more they'll connect with that progress and want to continue
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9 Nov
If you're creating an online course here are 3 things to keep in mind:

1) We have separate channels for processing verbal & visual info
2) Our working memory has limited capacity
3) Learning requires active processing

The takeaway?
Learning requires the use of both verbal and visual channels to:

∙pay attention to presented material
∙organize it into a structure that makes sense, and
∙integrate it with prior knowledge
Online, both visual and verbal information is originating from the same source: the computer.

There is no presenter walking around a room

No flipchart or slideshow to look at as a break from the presenter

There are no participant questions randomly asked out loud.
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Creating tension in a learning experience

How do you balance giving learners what they want and getting them to explore on their own?

It's a spectrum of informational on one side and explorative on the other.
I believe you need to put learners in the context in which they will apply your lessons.

Sometimes that means presenting them with a problem they've never seen before.

That can be frustrating. It can feel like a waste of time.
But you have to create trust in your process such that learners will take that leap with you.

Most students will make mistakes and that's ok, because when you show them "the way" it will mean so much more to them personally.
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27 Oct
Signpost your learning content

You're making it harder for your students to retain what you're teaching if you don't

Signposting gives them an outline to hang your ideas (and their notes) on.
Signposting means showing students

> what you are going to cover
> what you are covering as you cover it
> what you covered
It doesn't mean being prescriptive.

It doesn't mean putting a lot of words on slides.

It doesn't mean you even need visuals: you can signpost with your words.
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