I am a digital learning designer and for me the most challenging part of my role is sparking emotions and keeping the learners attention during the experiences I create. Like anyone designing digital content, I have no control over the environment and surroundings that the learner is in and with so many other distractions in … Continue reading Attention please #BlogEveryDay
Category: Instructional Design
A learning designers product #BlogEveryDay
In my opinion, the brain is a learning designers product. A car designer understands how a car works and ensures that the final design has enough room for the engine, brakes and other essential items. Learning designers need to understand how to firstly, motivate the brain so it becomes interested and secondly understand how to make the material … Continue reading A learning designers product #BlogEveryDay
Ideate and design #BlogEveryDay
Be aware of your biases when you start to design any learning solution. This maybe an unconscious bias that has stemmed from a positive or negative experience and could be your personal learning style. I find it really helps to get a diverse group of stakeholders together so you can brainstorm ideas to discover the … Continue reading Ideate and design #BlogEveryDay
CIPD’s A to Z of Creative Learning Methods #BlogEveryDay
For #LearningAtWorkWeek, which takes place 13th - 17th May 2019, the CIPD L&D Content Team put together an interactive A to Z of Creative Learning Methods and created a video describing each method, click here to watch this. Not only is this a useful guide to help identify activities to include when designing learning experiences, it is … Continue reading CIPD’s A to Z of Creative Learning Methods #BlogEveryDay
Learning activities #BlogEveryDay
Is the learning solution you are designing aiming to: raise awareness facilitate teamwork create and review a policy or strategy implement a new approach or system enhance skills create and strengthen networks Each of these would require slightly different activities. For example, when implementing a new system it may be beneficial to include a practical … Continue reading Learning activities #BlogEveryDay
Mapping the journey #BlogEveryDay
So the problem and/or gap has been identified and an empathy map has allowed you to understand where the learners currently are on their journey. It's time to define the end goal and map out which section of that journey you will offer support. Understanding the end destination will allow you to set the most … Continue reading Mapping the journey #BlogEveryDay
Define the problem #BlogEveryDay
The next step in an Design Thinking Approach is Define the Problem which I believe overlaps the analysis stage of the ADDIE model. I often put this in writing to confirm with a subject matter expert (SME) what the training gap/need is, who the target audience is, who the key stakeholders are that can support … Continue reading Define the problem #BlogEveryDay
What’s your best Learning experience #BlogEveryDay
I recently got asked "what was the best learning experience you ever had?" I would imagine that most people would say; I had this great teacher can anyone say they had a great eLearning experience or when prompted with that question would you think of an article you just read or video you just … Continue reading What’s your best Learning experience #BlogEveryDay
Analysis #BlogEveryDay
I am a big believe of using models where appropriate and I often use the ADDIE model. I have spoken about the first step in the Design Thinking Model, ideally before emphasising with the learner and understanding their need, the business objective should be identified and analysed. If I don't fully understand the objective of … Continue reading Analysis #BlogEveryDay
Effective questioning #BlogEveryDay
Learning design involves asking lots of questions, getting the answers and asking a lot more questions dependant on the answers to the first questions. Questions such as: What do they actually need to do this? What do they need to do differently? What's the worst that could happen? Only by finding the answers to these, … Continue reading Effective questioning #BlogEveryDay
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