It is no secret that employees can have extremely busy schedules. They must maintain a high standard and level of commitment in order to complete their tasks and goals in a timely manner. Not only do employees need to deal with their own tasks they are often required to go above and beyond in dealing with other projects, and customers etc. This, in turn, can place huge pressure on these employees. When offered to complete training, be it online or in the classroom, enthusiasm can more often than not be lacking before they have even begun. The strain and stress from their everyday roles can take its toll. Whatever reserves are left for concentration and retention within their brain is often stretched to its limit, making it difficult to grasp concepts within these training sessions. Employer should focus their attention on how to positively reinforce knowledge retention through online learning. Here at SAFEWARE, we have some easy tips for employers and trainers to assist with this
Inclusion of interactive assessments. Using interactive assessments in the form of quizzes can offer a higher level of engagement for online learners. This is because this kind of interactive learning is immersive, can be personalized, and can offer opportunities for micro and adaptive learning. Therefore it increases knowledge retention for online learners
Encourage your users to put their newly learned information to use. Putting your learning into practice is important for cementing it in your mind, because practice creates new neural pathways in the brain. Each time you practice a new skill or apply some new piece of information in a practical way, those pathways are strengthened and you’ll be less and less likely to forget what you’ve learned.
Advise learners of follow-up training. Ensuring that you offer that learners’ new knowledge can be refreshed and built upon with additional training sessions can help to fortify what information has been given and aids knowledge retention.
The above tips will not necessarily solve the issue for all learners but it can offer an aid to some learners. Determining what best works for your and your employees is imperative for any online training. By using a variety of techniques to cement new information in the minds of learners, they will be far more likely to retain it in the long-term.