Training Tech Solutions Blog

Yesterday, I presented on the topic of transferring knowledge from the boomers to the gamers. The basic idea is that learning and development professionals need to adopt some of the tools of the Net-Generation or Gamer Generation and deliver some of our training that way.

Consider incorporating blogs and wikis into your training offerings. Not to replace courses but to augment the courses to provide additional information and ideas about the courses…to allow open and honest attendee feedback.

Also, allow game playing within e-learning courses. This encourages repetition and provides motivation to the learner. Everyone enjoys playing games so leverage games to provide basic declarative knowledge to your learners.

Another tip is to use gadgets, like Cell Phones and iPods to provide information via podcasts or via text messages. The Net Generation is already used to these devices, leverage them.

I am not saying that we need to abandon stand up or traditional e-learning, instead we need to augment it to make it relevent to the learners we are instructing.

Also a number of people afterward wanted to know where to get more information. If you go to the Web site Gadgets, Games and Gizmos you can download the slides, get whitepapers and learn more about the knowledge transfer process.

And if you are around at 3:30 today, I will be signing my book (which was the basis for the lecture) Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools for Transferring Knowledge from the Boomers to the Gamers at the books store, even if you aren’t interested in having the book signed, stop by and say hello.

Karl Kapp