I was working on another post about learned helplessness in learning that I had previously started but felt this was a bit more timely given the eLearning Challenge.

I am postponing my other post until next week (or perhaps later this week) so I can get this off my chest. I may write more on each one further down the road, but we’ll see how that goes.

One

The navigation/timeline needs to be locked down so “learners” can see all of my wonderful content.

Two

I’m an eLearning designer so that’s the proper solution, never-mind doing a proper analysis to see if it’s even necessary.

Three

Just use next buttons to progress through software training, we don’t need to make an accurate environment.

Four

We need to cover all the learning styles to make sure everyone learns.

Five

Let’s create a virtual instructor led course, and an eLearning course, and a video, and a bunch of job aids. More is better right?

Six

For previous releases we had a few videos walking users through the application so we should do that again (when task based job aids would have sufficed).

Seven

This is a compliance course so they have to read everything. We can’t just put a box to select saying they’ve “read” it all.

Eight

Mobile learning means we take the courses we’ve designed and put them on a phone, right?

Nine

From a consulting company: We’ve had a great deal of experience doing that for xyz companies, we can help your company do that too! (of course the problem isn’t actually doing it, it’s making the case and getting funding to do it which defeats the purpose of consultants)

Ten

Let’s test them on it, that will prove they learned it!

Your Turn

What are some of the things that you here and see that make you cringe? A lot of these things are very realistic and I see them everyday, I challenge you to share the most horrific tales of real things you see every day.