Learner Engagement: A Guide to Improve Learner Experience

Today, we are being trained by technology to find and digest information at an incredibly fast pace. As a result, attention spans have shortened considerably. In the age of TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, it is getting more and more difficult for learning professionals to keep the attention of learners.

Several technologies have been developed to solve this problem and there is no doubt that learner engagement will help you sell training online. 

Technology is leading the way. It can solve a learning business’s many woes, with benefits across the entirety of your organization. 

How do you improve learner engagement? Fortunately, this guide has the answers. 

Content:

• Set Learning Goals
• Make Learning Convenient
•  Develop Innovative  Interactive & Creative Content 

• Rewards and Gamification

• Discussion and Communication 
• Increase Accessibility Through Mobile Learning
• Final Thoughts

Set Learning Goals

To increase learner engagement, one must set goals. This includes reviewing both organizational and stakeholder goals regularly and measuring your engagement metrics. Engagement can be measured in an assortment of metrics. 

Understanding the learner's journey can help in setting realistic learning goals. Here is a blog talking in detail about journey mapping.

Have a look at engagement rates across your entire ecosystem:

• ILT engagement
• Community and forum engagement
• Course material and resources
• Social engagement

Your analytics will provide you with many answers, including how much time your learners are engaging with the various segments of your environment.

While you need analytics to measure your learner improvement, you will need to make learning convenient by using the latest learning technologies. This will ensure that you win the attention of your learners and keep them as lifelong learners. 

Make Learning Convenient

If you do not put the effort into producing a well-designed learning experience, your learner is not likely to put in the effort either. There are a wide variety of ways that you can make learning more convenient for the learner. 

To keep the attention of your learner, you must follow the practices and protocols that they (we) have been conditioned to.  When learners go online, they scan information, and as such, you are better to use the formatting that has already proved useful to the millions of websites online.

 A quick formatting checklist will prove to be helpful:

• Use headings and subheadings
• Use the ideal font sizes
• Use infographics 
• Use paragraph width and height for easy reading
• Use a contemporary font that is easy to read like Calibri or Ariel
• Use rich graphics that contrast your words to make them pop

Develop Innovative  Interactive & Creative Content

With the technologies available today, there is no reason why a learner should fail. The following are the most contemporary strategies currently being used by the best online training companies.

 H5P

H5P is an open-source tool that you use to create interactive learning content. Instead of using lengthy course content, break it up. Develop parts of the training where they access interactive multimedia.

H5P places the power of engagement in the palm of your hand. These strategies will enrich the learner experience and allow your learners a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the course material. Remaining with the old way of watching a video, accompanied by a pdf file can have the opposite effect and impede the learner’s motivation to continue. 

H5P allows you to produce several dozen types of interactive content and multimedia, including: 

• Audio

• Quizzes

• Videos

• Flashcards

• Memory games

• Drag and drop tasks

• Branching scenarios

• Interactive modules 

Learn What is H5P and Why You Need it.