If you’re going to dump something in my head, do it fast please

I have to admit. I am biased. Probably by my generation, probably by what I’ve been taught, probably by my learning style. I don’t really like boring self paced “click next here and read these words” kinda stuff. I mean those robotic recorded presentations which aren’t conducive to dialogue. There’s noone to talk to. I get a bit lonely when I have to learn this way. I go a bit nuts and talk with my monitor sometimes, but it never talks back. Like the content, it doesn’t care what I’m doing

Ultimately I like interaction with others. I tend to believe that humans are social beings, and as such a level of interaction and dialogue will help learning. So if I am going to have a message “banked” into my head non-interactively, like you’re dropping a coin in there without my consent, you’ve got about one and a half minutes to do it. How did I figure this out? Well, I’d read some of the literature saying similar stuff about keeping things short a while back and gone “yeah, yeah, yeah ok”, but being the pragmatic learner that I am, it was thoroughly reinforced when I was checking out some stuff on YouTube to make some “bytes” to reinforce our systems updates. Introductions over about fifteen seconds had me frustrated, and if I hadn’t gotten the point by the ninety second mark the time was up. Harsh? Yes. Although, it did back up the literature… and I can’t be the only one out there. The literature came from somewhere afterall.

Coincidentally, while I was cruising YouTube I found a short video called “This is not e-Learning” which sums it up perfectly. Thanks Dukados1!

So please, if you’re going to give me a brain dump, do it quickly, my monitor isn’t a talkative type.