Supporting Students Beyond the Classroom

Oct 30, 2012

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!

7 Replies
Eric Nalian

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

Mike Taylor

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]

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