Design For How People Learn

6. Design for Knowledge

(In which we learn to not hand out mittens in summertime, and to let learners hold the map)

Some of the Challenges

I’ve struggled a bit with what to include in this chapter. On one hand, designing for knowledge is probably a whole book unto itself; on the other hand, pretty much everything we’ve already talked about is part of designing for knowledge.

So in this chapter, we’re going to focus on a few basic questions:

• Will your learners remember?

• Does the learner understand?

• How much guidance do you give learners?

We’ll also take a look at a process for designing learning solutions.

Will They Remember?

Let’s look at a few of the many ways to make content more memorable.

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