Making Learning Stick with Job Aids #486: Challenge | Recap
If there’s one surefire way to help your learners succeed—before, during, and after training—is by giving them effective job aids. Job aids are like cheat sheets for success. They can be anything from checklists and quick-reference guides to summaries, glossaries, FAQs, or worksheets.
They’re simple. They’re practical. And they work. They help learners remember what they’ve learned and use it when they need it most. It’s all about making learning stick. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about.
🏆 E-Learning Challenge of the Week
This week’s e-learning challenge is to create a performance support tool, such as a worksheet, job aid, or another resource that helps learners apply what they’ve learned in an e-learning course. You can build it around an existing project or create something entirely new.
Short on time? No worries. Try one of the Rise real content templates to get started quickly and keep things simple.
✨ Share Your E-Learning Work
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🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:
Before you start designing your practice sheets for this week’s challenge, check out the e-learning and instructional design interview tips your fellow challengers shared over the past week:
Instructional Design Interview Tips RECAP #485: Challenge | Recap
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📆 Upcoming Challenges
- Challenge #487 (12.13): Our 12th annual Pantone color of the year challenge. This year's color is called Mocha Mousse, on Pantone's website
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