Learner Control

1
Learner Control

• Control options
• Content sequencing
• Pacing
• Access to learning support
• Learner control implementation
• Course menus
• Links
• Pop-ups and mouse-overs
• Guided tours

2
Learner Control (Contd)

• Learner control implementation guidelines
• Use learner control for learners with high prior
  knowledge or high metacognitive skill
• Make important instructional events the default
  navigation option
• Adaptive control or advisement
• Navigational guidelines
• Use links sparingly
• Allow learners to control pacing
• Basic navigation options to control/indicate
  progress

3
Building Problem Solving Skills

• Problem solving skills rely on
• Cognitive skill
• Metaskills
• Motivation
• Principles of teaching problem solving skills
• Use job context since metacognitive skills are
  job specific
• Focus on thinking processes instead of job
  knowledge demonstrate thinking processes
  explicitly
• Make the learner aware of his thinking processes
• Incorporate job specific problem solving processes