Instructional strategy largely depends on the target audience. Instructional designers need to understand their target audience and their learning preferences before designing courses. In this post, let’s explore how adult learners differ from child learners.

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When designing eLearning courses, instructor designers need to do a thorough analysis of their target audience i.e., the learners. The course design largely depends on the type of audiences. Let’s see how the audience profile, age group, educational background, job experience or the learners’ proficiency in using computers influence the course design.

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People across the world are using social media to exchange knowledge apart from connecting up with friends. Knowledge need not always be structured and facilitated through training. For a globalized company, it is essential to have systems in place whereby their employees can easily collaborate and work with their peers across offices worldwide. Today, informal learning is being looked at seriously. Not that it never existed earlier. As a matter of fact, it was there all along. So, why not create platforms to enable social learning among a wider segment of your organization? After all, the broader the knowledge-base, the wider is the scope for learning.

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Collaborative technologies provide various tools such as video or web conferencing, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, internet protocol telephony and so on which have changed the way companies do business. It also helped them to become more efficient and consequently more productive. These new technologies have also began to influence the way people learn in organizations as they are now spoilt for choice with a deluge of new and convenient methods of seeking information, sharing ideas and exchanging notes.

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eLearning is a convenient means of providing training to employees in an organization. Based on the learning needs of employees, a suitable method can be planned for deploying eLearning across the organization. However, organizations need to plan in advance and identify different areas in which training needs to be provided to make eLearning successful.

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