Summarize+the+personalization,+pretraining,+and+segmentation+principles.

= Summarize: =

[|I] love the way that you are well organized, practical and to the point. Your writing is relevant and not too wordy. Very informative and insightful. - Mike Flynn LT A Making a connection with your students on a more personalized level can help the student relate more to the content, no matter what you are teaching. You are more likely to keep students motivated and engaged if you use less formal writing in your interaction with the students. Many colleges use discussion as a form of class time. Allowing students to use more conversational dialect and less formal will create an urge to get involved in the discussion. Some teachers insist that students use references in his or her responses to others discussion questions (D.Q.) answers. While this may help deepen the student's learning, it doesn't always encourage sharing life's experiences. Keep the students engaged for a more lively discussion by encouraging students to share examples. A good source for developing interactive e-learning is [|elearninglearning].

** Personalization Principles: **
Personalizing your teaching and presentation is very important. This allows the students to make a connection to you in an e-learning situation. Losing the formality and allowing your personality to shine makes your students feel more comfortable and makes you seem human. Paul Desmarais, Boise State University adult education professor, provides a great overview of the personalization principle in his multimedia presentation, [|Principle]. When I see this principle I think about all the online classes I have taken through the years, and the ones that I learned the most from where those where the instructor allowed us to share experiences and encouraged relating those experience to relevancy to the material used in the class. I love instructors that can drive the discussion and keep it on course. It is very easy for students to take the discussion off topic. Brilliancy is those instructors that can keep it on track without seeming too. Applying this principle to e-learning is to focus the material in a way that will allow the student to relate the experience back to prior learning, the training should be user focused.

Pre-training provides learners with necessary information and skills to help establish basic knowledge needed for the learner. Pre-training is done by giving learners main points and concepts of the course. This is effective because it reduces class time spent teaching, especially in e-learning, when the learner needs to have familiarity and be comfortable in navigating through difficult web pages. When the basics are introduced prior to the class starting, instructors can spend more time on the complexities of the class. Anne Negus, Boise State University adult education professor, provides a great overview of the multimedia principles on an into active [|web-site].
 * Pre-training Principles: **

Activating schema is so important! It connects what we already know to what we are about to learn! Pre-training does this! Let's always remember to activate our learners' schema!



Here is a short youtube video on pretraining principle. media type="youtube" key="slQse6i3ZX4" width="560" height="315"

** Segmentation Principles: **
Teaching content in smaller more digestible bites is so important across every grade level and format. I can see and agree that in e-learning settings this has to be prioritized. The content can be overwhelming and you need to let your students process the information.

The smaller the better. Sometimes if given to much at one time it can overwhelm a person and they will eventually check out. I remember when I began working on my current job we had a week of information, but they tried to pile so much information into one week, by the time I finished that week I was so overwhelmed and it was hard to even continue to grasp the information they were trying to give me. If learners are not allowed to process the information then in the long run the content will have to be re-taught. Paul Desmarais, Boise State University adult education professor, provides a great overview of the segmentation principle in his multimedia presentation, [|The Segmentation Principle].

Here is an interesting clipart that shows a fun depiction of why these principles are important! Let's avoid cognitive load!