Priming Learning For Digital (ePub)

Cost savings and increased profitability regularly entice businesses into pursuing digital innovations for both delivering and enhancing student support.

Unfortunately, digital education is a complex area of business where much can go wrong, and missteps can easily result in wasted investment, difficulties for students, weak performance, unexpected costs, workplace dangers, and an overall poor return on investment.

This book provides guidance for avoiding costly mistakes when managing the complexity of digital education projects, so that the best return on investment can be sought.

Within this book you will find:

• Two new tools and guidance for aiding the assessment of suitability for software, platforms, media and interactive development, so that a sensible balance can be sought between investment and targeted benefit

• Brand new story lead thought experiments to provide a simple overview for the essence of learning and the associated student support requirements, which must be understood for quality assuring the delivery of a viable product

• A deep dive into disproving the most common misconceptions & highlighting the most common issues, which could damage the prospects for a viable digital learning solution if they aren't understood

• Guidance and example investigative questions to set the direction for gathering the pertinent data for a user centric approach

Within an estimated 4 hour read time, this book will provide insights for allowing business managers, project managers and any other business personnel to move beyond a plethora of buzz words, rhetoric, cognitive biases, marketing pitches, and all manner of misdirects so that they can gain a clear top level understanding for defining the investments that will be required for developing a viable digital learning solution.

The same simplified analogies and tools within this book can also aid L&D professionals in guiding their own stakeholders towards understanding the risks and requirements.