The people behind easygenerator: Steve Harz

Easygenerator is growing. Last November eight new people joined us. This gave us the idea to do a series of blog post on the people behind easygenerator. They are the ones that make it all happen. The third post in this series is Steve Harz, our new Account Executive for North America.

Greetings.  My name is Steven Harz and I am the North American Representative for Easygenerator, based in Connecticut.  I've been involved in Training & Development for 20 years.

When I began working in the training industry many years ago all training was classroom-based and instructor led and, if you recall, in those days there was a major problem with this delivery method: with a dozen learners in a room there are a dozen different skill sets to which the instructor had to cater.

This created both a daunting task for the instructor, as well as much consternation among the learners. Some participants may have needed to learn all of the stated objectives while some may have already, through the course of their job responsibilities or via prior training, become proficient with many of them.

In these training events the more proficient learners became frustrated, and at times somewhat hostile, with having to sit through the portion of the course that contained information that either didn't pertain to them or in which they were already proficient.  The issue was that, other than a one-on-one session with an instructor, there was no way to accomplish this for a mass audience.

This leads me to the matter at hand: the need for Adaptive Learning.

As learning professionals we cannot be so single-minded as to think that we can create a single learning path that is proper for our universe of learners.  We must be able to create learning that is appropriate for all learners and be able to adjust itself to the learning needs of each person.

All of this said, I am confident that Easygenerator will continue to allow the instructional designers and developers of today - and tomorrow - to develop Adaptive Learning. We must do so, as our learners deserve this type of attention just as our companies deserve to have a properly training workforce.