Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy
3. Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction
3.5. Providing Learning Guidance
When providing learning guidance, you assist learners while they practice with the new information. However, you don't do it for them. This step is similar to a GPS, it guides you on your journey, but it doesn't drive you.
One important way to provide learning guidance during a webinar involves how you format and present new content. For example, providing an outline at the beginning of the webinar and then revisiting it as you move through the content. Or displaying your bullet points one at a time rather than all at once. These techniques give a structure to the content that makes it easier to understand and remember.
Other methods for providing learning guidance include:
- Showing worked examples.
- Conducting short hands-on exercises and provide step-by-step instructions.
- Asking a question and giving hints to the answer (this can be done using polls and surveys).
