Mistake-Driven Learning

“If you don’t know what went wrong… how will you fix it?” is an often repeated mantra. This applies to feedback about a specific initiative being reviewed, and is equally relevant to eLearning environments, where the provider of feedback and its recipient are often physically distant from each other. Here is the challenge, however: How do eLearning designers provide corrective feedback in a setting where they have not met or physically interacted with the learners? In this article, we will look at the importance of providing corrective feedback to learners. We will also review some of the approaches recommended for providing formal corrective feedback. Lastly, we’ll review best practices for ensuring successful feedback sessions.

Can failure be used as a teaching tool in the online learning world? Certainly; in this article I will share how the corrective feedback paradigm, a drill-and-practice approach, can set an effective pattern for the rehearsal of failed problems.

We all make mistakes; it is an inevitable part of being humans. However, it is what we do with the experience we collect from those mistakes that makes a world of difference. In this article I will share the many benefits that mistake-driven learning can offer your eLearning courses.