About Achievement's Partnering For Success ™ Program is one of the few, if not the only mentoring and coaching programs available anywhere in the world to incorporate blended learning.
A blended learning model builds up and strengthens the learning experience, while greatly reducing travel-related time and costs. This four-tier model reinforces learning by:
- Providing performance support and reference information that delivers conceptual awareness and understanding.
- Providing interactive learning using computer-based training modules, web-based training modules, simulations and interactive games.
- Working with peers in a virtual collaborative learning environment to develop analysis and problem-solving skills. Such a learning environment is created using live virtual classroom learning, e-Labs, live virtual conferences, and virtual teaming and collaborative sessions
- Providing experienced-based learning in a face-to-face environment to develop higher-level evaluation and decision-making skills. This is done via workshops, mentoring, case studies and role-playing.
Traditional learning often means an employee must abandon work for a specified period of time. In many cases, the training program does not adequately relate to a worker's every-day role, so the impact of what has been learned is quickly eroded. The key to avoiding this is to embed learning into core business processes. The on-going learning process must combine structured learning events with interactive and collaborative learning in every-day roles. This
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approach goes a long way toward making learning more meaningful and therefore less likely to be forgotten.
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Traditional e-learning is not a lot different from the old programmed learning, first available in book form and later on cd-rom. Programmed learning has a basic form. It presents learning in tiny chunks, tests for acquisition of one chunk and then moves on the next. Typically, a 'fact' is presented and then the reader is asked to select from alternative statements about the 'fact'. The correct answer is 'rewarded' and the reader proceeds onward. An incorrect answer results in an explanation and a representation of the alternatives.
The problem with such programmed learning is that it bores most people within a few minutes. Why? Because only about 20% of people learn in this 'serial' manner. The rest find it dull, slow and often intellectually patronising. They give up fairly quickly. We have known for many years now that people learn in different ways - that they have different learning strategies and preferences. Traditional e-learning satisfies only one set of learning strategies and this set is preferred by only about 20% of the population.
Blended learning is therefore an attempt to combine the claimed strengths of e-learning and the human [element] and overcome the weaknesses of both...
Indeed, studies we have carried out for clients indicate that blended learning can realise savings of between 30% and 50% of a company's training costs.
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