From the course: Components of Effective Learning
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Transfer learning into real-world performance
From the course: Components of Effective Learning
Transfer learning into real-world performance
- As designers of learning experiences, our goal is to help learners transfer what they've learned to real world performance. That's not likely there'll be answering multiple choice questions about auto repair leadership or survival medicine when they're in the field, they'll actually be performing tasks. It would be helpful, wouldn't it, if a multiple choice question dropped out of the sky every time we needed to make a consequential decision. But that doesn't happen because they look at isolated points of knowledge. They frequently provide little of the performance context that's so critical. By identifying possible options, multiple choice questions actually help too much. And they make the exercise more academic than authentic, for their multiple choice questions limit the number of options we need to consider 'cause it's only those listed. Choosing from amongst set of options is entirely different, from thinking of…
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