The solutions ofelearning and digital learning tools have experienced an unprecedented boom in recent years, even more particularly since the start of the pandemic period in 2020, which forced distance, and therefore the distance from face-to-face training rooms. Digital and innovation are therefore at the center of the transformations in the world of vocational training. New learning contexts that raise the question of the place and future of trainers in the face ofeducational engineering In the digital age. New terms are emerging to describe a position at the crossroads of knowledge and digital skills: educational designer, educational engineer... Between new posture and new skills, who is the trainer of today and tomorrow? What are its new challenges?
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A new posture of the trainer
If until now, trainers have mainly taken on the role of transmitting expertise and knowledge, today, limiting themselves to this unique role considerably limits their field of action. Yesterday, the trainer had a double expertise: that of mastering a field of competence and of knowing the techniques to teach the ins and outs. With the entry of digital technology into the equation, the range of tools and learning contexts are evolving, the trainer as one could visualize him, in a teacher's position, takes a new position: Faced with educational engineering in the digital age, the trainer becomes a coordinator, a learning facilitator. Like a conductor, he facilitates the coordination of learning phases, tools and contexts to guide learners in assimilating concepts and skills. Hence the term sometimes used, moreover, of training project coordinator.
What to remember
1 - Trainers have moved from being teachers only to being learning facilitators
2 - It facilitates the coordination of learning phases, tools and contexts to guide learners in assimilating concepts and skills.
The trainer becomes an instructional designer
Beyond this coordination posture, the trainer inherits the responsibility of understanding the challenges of all forms and tools of training as well as their contexts of use and their benefits. He must have the competence to articulate these tools and techniques in order to develop comprehensive, coherent and effective training courses.. Beyond the simple understanding of digital tools such as LMS, the Mobile learning, etc.. He must also have a perfect understanding of the mechanisms and contributions of formats such as microlearning Or the Gamification, in order to design training courses optimized for the assimilation and retention of information. Having become a coordinator, the trainer therefore also wears the role of educational designer. He understands the challenges of distance learning, is able to transpose the training content into the appropriate tools, knows how to pace the training according to the learning context of his learners and the tools they may have at their disposal.
What to remember
1 - The trainer must have the ability to articulate these tools and techniques in order to develop comprehensive, coherent and effective training courses
2 - Having become a coordinator, the trainer therefore also wears the role of instructional designer.
Develop your technophilia
Until recently, develop a e-learning training could, for a large majority of trainers, literally solve a headache. Some e-learning solutions could require the expertise of developers, as for the few LMS which offered interfaces for designing training modules, they still require a certain level of technical skills. This problem is clearly no longer a problem today, since the majority of digital learning tools on the market today have design interfaces that are rather simple to handle, greatly facilitating the creation of content, they come together under the name of authoring tools. If today for a trainer, therefore, developing his technophilia is a challenge, it is not a mountain to climb either. Understanding how the tools work and their pedagogical value remain at the center of the challenges of the trainer in the face of educational engineering, however..
What to remember
1 - E-learning tools have imposed a sharper digital culture on trainers
2 - Understanding how digital tools work and their educational value is at the center of the trainer's challenges.
The designer trainer guarantees pedagogical coherence
Trainers facing educational engineering in the digital age, beyond their role as designers and coordinators, now have an essential role as guarantors of pedagogical coherence. They ensure the relevance of the choice of tools in training courses and have the competence to translate raw training content into rhythmic sequences designed to effectively mobilize the attention of learners, promote the understanding, retention and feedback of the learning in play. They have the ability to cut content, adapt it in a context of cognitive effort management and know how to identify whether a tool is more or less adapted to the needs of training.
What to remember
1 - Trainers ensure the relevance of the choice of tools in the training courses
2 - They have the ability to cut content, adapt it in a context of cognitive effort management and know how to identify whether a tool is more or less adapted to the needs of the training.
