Nine Ways to Encourage Adult e-Learners

This post is from Maia. She refers to this article, saying, 

"Adult learners don't like to fail. I can agree with that statement in every way. In my current position, I see many employees who contact Learning and Development because they say they have taken a course but didn't receive credit. This is because some employees don't receive the passing grade they need on the final assessment. As an L&D member, I have to remind employees that they can take the course again to get the 90% passing score that they need for that particular eLearning.

However, in this article the author mentioned 'The blind surfer was motivated to learn and willing to risk failure as she kept falling of the surf board.  She might not have been as inclined to do so if she was only allowed two attempts and then notified that she failed.' This is a great statement that reminds me that we should not limit the amount of attempts an employee has when completing an eLearning.  

I think most employees fear of failing an assessment with only 2 to 3 tries leads them to email L&D to request an exemption. I think traditional testing can be ok when really necessary, but maybe my team should be open to the idea of giving employees more than 2 to 3 attempts on assessments so that the learner can grasp the content and focus on the actual subject and not try to perfect their score."