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Shannon McKenzie is co-founder and chief operating officer of Idea Learning Group, where she oversees business operations, leads a talented team of learning consultants, and dishes out daily doses of wit. Shannon has a passion for ensuring that each individual’s learning needs are met clearly, simply, and effectively and helping people perform their work more efficiently and businesses excel.

Shannon McKenzie

August 2017 - TD Magazine

Writing Choice-Based Learning Objectives

October 2015 - TD Magazine

The Power of Choice in L&D

Are you intrigued by Cafeteria Learning but wondering how to make it work inside your organization? Learn how to go from: “Our stakeholders/learners would never buy into this” to “Why haven’t we done this before?”
Join Let Them Choose authors Jillian Douglas and Shannon McKenzie, along with guests Erica Davis and Stacey Vrooman for first-hand accounts of the ins and outs of designing Cafeteria Learning in organizations as varied as Government, Healthcare, and Hospitality. You’ll see samples of design documents and their iterations along with samples of final deliverables to get a full overview of how this innovative learning technique comes to life.
• Assess the kinds of projects that are well suited for Cafeteria Learning.
• Describe typical obstacles to implementing Cafeteria Learning and how to avoid them
• Describe how to utilize a Cafeteria Learning design document.


 

Let Them Choose Part 2: Commit to Designing a Workshop Using the Cafeteria Learning Model

Jillian Douglas and Shannon McKenzie, authors of Let Them Choose, describe how the Cafeteria Learning model puts learners in the best position to succeed.

What Is Cafeteria Learning?

Lecturing on its own is ineffective. But what’s the alternative? Combine the best of brain science and learning theory with the power of choice. This webcast offers an overview of the Cafeteria Learning style as presented in Let Them Choose. Get participants out of their seats and into station-based activities catered to distinct learning preferences, interaction types, and technology options. Part experiential, part social, and part emotional, Cafeteria Learning encourages learners to explore and absorb content at their own speed and direction. It puts learners in the best position to succeed. Join Jillian Douglas and Shannon McKenzie, authors of Let Them Choose, published by ATD Press as they introduce you to Cafeteria Learning.
• Differentiate Cafeteria Learning from other ILT methodologies.
• Identify the research in support of Cafeteria Learning.
• Summarize the benefits of Cafeteria Learning for learners.
 

 

Let Them Choose: Cafeteria Learning: Part 1

4 Steps to Writing Cafeteria Learning Objectives

Let Them Choose shows you how to get participants out of their seats and into station-based activities catered to distinct learning preferences, interaction types, and technology options.

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