Hey guys! Just curious if you have any good ideas to support students after training has been concluded. I know this isn't specifically for elearning, but more of a blended approach. I'm looking for something to convey a message of training support to students when they leave training - something to make them feel we're not just throwing them to the wolves
I know there are tons of innovative people on here, so I look forward to hearing your ideas!
There is a company called Mindsetter that has a tool by the same name Mindsetter that lets you do this. You create a 'Mindset' and you can set it up to send out a lesson every day until all lessons are sent out.
We are going to use this for our new hire orientation. Currently it is a week long training where about 12 different topics are covered. We are going to create these mini email lessons that are going to be sent out for a couple months after orientation to keep the information fresh.
Similar to Eric's suggestion, you could also you an auto-responder from an email service such as aweber, mailchimp, etc etc.
The way these work is you set them up to deliver a series of sequential messages/content then no matter when someone is added to the list they always start with message #1 and get them all in order.
Here's a good example of how someone set one up for daily delivery, but you could make it weekly, monthly or whatever frequency you want.
I think this is a fantastic idea to reinforce learning and aligns very well with research on the spacing out of learning over time being more effective by embedding information in our long-term memory through repetition. Will Thalheimer has a fantastic research document on this "spacing effect" at: http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/spacing_learning_over_time_2006.pdf [PDF]
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Hey Bethre,
There is a company called Mindsetter that has a tool by the same name Mindsetter that lets you do this. You create a 'Mindset' and you can set it up to send out a lesson every day until all lessons are sent out.
We are going to use this for our new hire orientation. Currently it is a week long training where about 12 different topics are covered. We are going to create these mini email lessons that are going to be sent out for a couple months after orientation to keep the information fresh.
www.mindsetter.com
Interesting concept, thanks Eric!
Hi Bethre,
This research summary may give you a some clues as to the critical variables in successful distance education.
Russ
Similar to Eric's suggestion, you could also you an auto-responder from an email service such as aweber, mailchimp, etc etc.
The way these work is you set them up to deliver a series of sequential messages/content then no matter when someone is added to the list they always start with message #1 and get them all in order.
Here's a good example of how someone set one up for daily delivery, but you could make it weekly, monthly or whatever frequency you want.
https://www.aweber.com/blog/email-marketing/super-sized-autoresponder-series.htm
I think this is a fantastic idea to reinforce learning and aligns very well with research on the spacing out of learning over time being more effective by embedding information in our long-term memory through repetition. Will Thalheimer has a fantastic research document on this "spacing effect" at: http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/spacing_learning_over_time_2006.pdf [PDF]
Thanks Mike! The PDF link isn't working :(
Hi, Bethre:
Perhaps you could create a forum or wiki and have learners talk about their experiences. What they were and weren't prepared for, etc.
Hmmm...not sure why that didn't work but you can access via this page too:
http://www.work-learning.com/catalog.html
It's under the"Research-to-Practice Reports" section.
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