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Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime
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Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime

by William Horton
February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
15h 32m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 10. Motivate learners

Providing incentive, encouragement, and discipline

It is widely believed that electronic courses have lower satisfaction ratings and higher dropout rates that traditional classroom courses. Dropout rates of up to 85% are claimed [78], This chapter suggests techniques that designers and instructors can use to keep learners interested, energized, and enthusiastic. You can pick which techniques to use for your course, for your class, and for individual learners.

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