Don't turn your learners into zombies! Be a zombie hunter and prevent the learner zombie apocalypse in your organisation with these 10 tips.

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10 WAYS TO TURN YOUR LEARNERS INTO ZOMBIES
HOW TO:
Be A Learning Zombie Hunter and Prevent the
Learning Apocalypse in Your Organisation

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10 SURE FIRE WAYS TO TURN YOUR
LEARNERS INTO A ZOMBIE ARMY
And we don’t want that….

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1. Make the front door very, very scary
Do you dare
to enter?

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Doors leading to
no-where.
Smoke-screens
everywhere.
No personality.
No branding.
Just a devious
maze of STUFF.
Enter the LMS house of horrors…

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Or, you can be a zombie hunter.

6. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Create a front door worth
• A branded LMS
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experience.
• Engaging
• Interactive
• Easy to
navigate
• Generates
intrigue
…and leaves
learners wanting
more
opening.

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So good you could eat it up…
Yum! This LMS
looks better
than brains.

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2. Kill Their Feelings
Zombies don’t need to feel, right…?

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…and numb them with boring learning objectives.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Blah
• Blah
• Blah
• Blah
• And more blah…
Click here for extra blah, blah blah…
Are you brain dead yet?

10. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Get their attention with
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stories of intrigue and risk

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Grab them with gossip, and real stories

12. Ask them questions. Re-activate those inactive minds...
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13. Set up a mystery. That will confuse their zombie
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brains!

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3. Make the Content Lifeless
The graveyard where
elearning content goes
to die.

15. Dump information on your learners to ensure their eyes
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stay glazed and their lips stay drooling.

16. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Make it personal. Include engaging
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video content and stories learners can relate to.

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Provide immersive, interactive video.
Stories that build

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Show them, don’t tell them.
Don’t just tell
them, show
them. Videos
are a great way
to do this..

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Give them more than one option.
Set up different
videos for them
to explore.

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4. Talk Like a Zombie.
Brains!

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Drone. On. And On. And On….
If seeking to build a zombie army, it is critical that
the general follows important steps to zombify
those individuals seeking to escape the general’s
domain by hunting them down with boring
instructional design speak, copious amounts of
corporate jargon, while also numbing their brains
with fact after fact of repetitious blather that will
go in one ear like a worm only to consume the
individual’s brain and thus, successfully, turn him
or her into a zombie. Mmmm....brains. Brains!

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Zombie Hunter Tactic: Take a high-empathy
approach. Talk to your learners like human beings -
-warm their cold, dead hearts.

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Make it personal.

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Welcome and engage them from the start.

25. Provide engaging content that invites them to
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use their senses.

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5. Force them to endure mindless clicking.

27. Confuse their zombie brains. Disconnect the
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challenge from any context.

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Zombie Hunter Tactic: Make the activities
relevant.

29. Get them to think about their own experiences.
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Build in time to reflect.

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Put the challenge in context.

32. 6. Include lots of cheesy, lifeless stock photos and clipart
I’m having
so much fun!
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We’re a
team!
I just love
my job so
much!
Brains!

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Zombie Hunter Tactic: Make the visuals on
brand and make sure they matter.

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7. Don’t tax their undead brains with choice.

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7. Give them one path to go down and lock them
into it.
Click “next” to
continue to brains.

36. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Give them meaningful
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choices.
Invite them to
explore.

37. Let them use their brains to pick and choose.
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Try Thiagi’s Four Door Model.

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Let them browse.

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Let them decide: Learn or apply?

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8. Give them no hope of survival.

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Don’t give them false hope for the future and DON’T
provide any motivation, support, or encouragement.
You have completed this
course.
There is nothing more
until the next course.
THERE IS NO EXIT.
And there was no point..

43. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Give them a call to action.
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Get them doing stuff in the real world of humans.

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Have them create their own action plan.

46. 9. Isolate them. Don’t allow any opportunities for
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them to connect with others.

47. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Get social and informal.
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Hey, how did
you do this? What do you
think?
Here’s my idea.
I’d love some
feedback.
What are some
best practices
for this?
This is a challenge
for my department?
What ideas do you have?

48. 10. Don’t play games. (Zombies don’t know how
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to have fun.)
Zzzzzzz…

49. Zombie Hunter Tactic: Get your learners out of zombie land
and into gaming land (no drooling or glazed eyes here.)
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Consider adding badges to incentivise
participation.

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The Zombie Hunter’s Rule Book:
1. Make a really nice front door (your LMS)
2. Get their attention and make it emotional
3. Avoid the info dump. Give it life through stories.
4. Talk to them like human beings.
5. Make the activities relevant and reflective.
6. Make the visuals matter and avoid cheesy stock images.
7. Give them choices and let them explore.
8. Provide a call to action and give them hope for the future.
9. Enable and empower them connect with each other and
collaborate.
10.Make it fun with games and incentives.

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