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How Do You Help Novices Structure Their Closets? The first thing you need to do is help your learners build a few shelves. There’s no way that any single class or training program is going to get them all the way to your mental model, and you shouldn’t try (that’s just as bad as burying them under a flood of multi-colored laundry).

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You also want your learners to know what to do with that information.

Change is a Process, Not an Event Any time you want learners to change their behavior, it’s a process and it needs to be reinforced.

Reduce the complexity of the environment. Let’s say you want to use an elearning simulation to teach someone about the controls in a plane cockpit, but it’s too overwhelming for a novice learner. To scaffold their learning experience, you could fade out all but a few of the key controls for the first few scenarios, and then gradually add controls b

Environment.

So when you are mapping out the route, you need to ask yourself what the journey looks like. Knowledge • What information does the learner need to be successful? • When along the route will they need it? • What formats would best support that? Skills • What will the learners need to practice to develop the needed proficiencies? • Where are their op

provide a little friction—something that requires learners to chew

Provide supports. If possible, embed easily accessed references in the experience.