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Create powerful learning opportunities with context

Create powerful learning opportunities with context

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Create powerful learning opportunities with context

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Any learning event that fails to present the context right upfront, it's going to have a much more difficult time connecting with learners, engaging them and motivating them to learn and improve their performance. The context gets learners into a situation, but, not every context says the same value. So what makes a good context? First is the portrayal of situations, learners can readily imagine themselves being in this reassures learners that they're receiving some instruction that's likely to be relevant to them. Now, we still don't know if the specific level of behavioral components are right for them. But we'll learn that quickly from the challenge and the activity components. We want a situation in which people tend to make mistakes. Those situations present powerful learning opportunities. It's not interesting nor engaging to have overly simplistic situations such as, you go to write a report and your pencil…

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