In last week’s blog post we talked about effective learning design and how great content helps us get people’s attention. Extraordinary content, design, and technology get us some—but not all—of the way to exceptional learning. There’s one more key element: social interaction.
We learn from each other. When we have to explain new knowledge to our peers in our own words—and argue passionately to make our points—we retain more of what we’ve learned. In many traditional classrooms, this could and should happen but doesn’t; in most online learning settings, it’s simply impossible.
For an exceptional learning experience, effective social learning must be the rule rather than the exception. That’s why, at Nomadic, we baked social interaction right into the platform.
Here are 3 ways that we use to encourage social interactions at Nomadic —you can incorporate these into your organization to provide exceptional learning experiences:
By creating open-ended conversations and rewarding learners for their progress, we’re seeing unprecedented levels of engagement in online learning. Effectively incorporating social interaction into the learning experience is the missing ingredient to creating rich, thoughtful, and honest conversations that can change how organizations do business.
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