Learners can, in the discussion boards of an online corporate learning community:
Examine the assignments.
Pose inquiries.
Describe your own experiences.
Consider someone's viewpoint critically and reflect on it.
Learn about novel concepts.
Exchange viewpoints.
Why are these events so important?
Active learning in an open-source learning management system facilitates information from short-term to long-term memory. When information is passively acquired, and no extra steps are taken to recollect it, it doesn't stick. Learners must participate in activities that aid in interpreting the material they have ingested if they are to convert information into knowledge.
A community of learners aids in contextualizing the knowledge. In comment sections, employees review material to participate in discussions, contribute to debates, clarify complex ideas, go further into a subject, or investigate related topics.
