From the course: Components of Effective Learning
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Boredom is failure
- I'm soon going to do my best to persuade you that learner boredom is totally avoidable. I recognize, of course, that there are many forces that contribute to boring instruction. But we really can't justify boring learners just because, "Well the content that we have to teach "is just totally boring in nature." Or, "We don't have time to make it interesting. "That we can't afford to do better," or, "My team and I are just not that creative "and we don't have the skills "to build more engaging things." And sure it's easier, it's quicker to just to present content but active learning requires more. When I wrote my first book on eLearning, my publisher asked me to come up an edgy title. After some contemplation and generating a list of, what I thought were pretty edgy titles, I came up with, "Boring is bad." And the book publisher was disappointed, he said, "I thought we were going for edgy. "Michael, everybody knows that…
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