E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 7, 2022

This fear will be exacerbated when we design a horse, but are forced by the vagaries of corporate dynamics to deliver a camel. Using the ADDIE model as a guide, that same person might also attend to Analysis (so a better job title might be L&D Analyst) while other specialists focus on Design, Development and Implementation.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By design it locks down the variables, making it challenging to compare apples to apples. Perhaps it’s behind a paywall, or the experimental design is flawed, or the study simply hasn’t been done. In short, all organisations are different.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In A slight misnomer I propose an adjustment to the job title “Learning Experience Designer” In The definition of insanity I revise my solution to fixing our senseless compliance training. In Rubber bands and chewing gum I celebrate the hackers. In The point of preference I temper the discourse about learning styles.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 15, 2018

In The best of both worlds I promoted Design Thinking as a means of using customer insights to inform strategic decision making. So much for Design Thinking being linear! If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. I’m fascinated by this quote that Henry Ford may or may not have uttered.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Armed with both the opportunity and the authority to make design decisions inside a ringfence, new ideas can be tried and tested quickly and efficiently without the myriad barriers that arise when you don’t have that power. but with another variable: responsibility.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As with other trends such as Design Thinking , they argue it’s merely old world practices repackaged in a new box. Regardless, some of our peers rail against Agile as a redundant neologism. It’s what we’ve always done and continue to do as consummate professionals.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 4, 2021

In today’s hybrid and hyperbusy working environment, I feel the timing has never been better to leverage the spacing effect in our instructional design. Instead of a 3-hour long class or a 45-minute long e-learning course, why not chunk the content and deliver it over time?

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 4, 2022

I propose we adopt a similar approach in the corporate sector. Drop the arbitrary pass mark, while still recording the score and completion status in the LMS.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2021

For example, when Tim Fawns, the Deputy Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh, blogged his thoughts about pedagogy and technology from a postdigital perspective , he defined pedagogy in the university setting as “the thoughtful combination of methods, technologies, social and physical designs and on-the-fly (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In Yellow submarine I round down the prevailing notion of human-centered design. In The next normal several of my peers and I anticipate the long-term nature of Learning & Development. In The leader’s new clothes I distinguish between management training and leadership training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 26, 2013

That of course is not to say that the e-learning designer is prevented from using these devices; for example, he or she might leverage other non-LMS technology within the organisation or in the cloud. However, in my experience and in conversations with others, it is clear that they often don’t.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The title of my previous post, Let’s get rid of the instructional designers! , was a tongue-in-cheek reference to a radical view of instructional design. I think it would be safe to say that the vast majority of us in the L&D profession do not advocate the riddance of instructional designers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

The best of both worlds – I love Design Thinking because it’s evidence based and it delivers. The foundations of innovation in L&D – The 70:20:10 model informs the building blocks of long-term efficiency, flexibility and creativity. Back to the future – Add these museums to your bucket list.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 15, 2014

compliance motivation corporate instructional design legislation meaning PCI regulation regulatory risk management Sussex Safer Roads training' To avoid the fine… right? I really wish I embedded this video into Take the law out of compliance training , but I didn’t. So here it is now.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But of course the devil is in the detail, and so far there hasn’t been very much of that (perhaps by design). Tabled last year via the Working Future whitepaper, the idea is “to help people more easily demonstrate their skills to employers and reduce barriers to lifelong learning.” ” Bravo.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2012

Hell-bent on avoiding the “Next” button, many instructional designers will delinearise the content by creating a course homepage with a raft of topics represented by funky icons. This is constructivist design. By design, an online course is meant to transmit knowledge to the learner.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 31, 2014

instructional design authenticity context engagement learning multimedia relevance scenarios sense making training transfer video' When the learner finds herself in a similar situation in real life, she will associate the current context with the scenario and thus apply her experience from it more readily.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

Whereas previously I have advocated this approach when designing a solution for a specific learning objective, this time I’m elevating the approach to the strategic level, with a view to designing a future-proofed solution for all the organisation’s learning objectives.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 6, 2020

And the survey shouldn’t be too long; that’s the fault of its design, not of the concept. Given the availability of online forms these days, rustling one up is like falling of a log, and the back-end compilation of the results is rather impressive. The open-ended: How might we improve this learning experience?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 24, 2014

That’s not by accident; it’s by design. I am seeing Average Joes everywhere who wouldn’t touch other authoring tools with a 10-foot pole expressing an uncharacteristic willingness to give this one a go. Address the Average Joe imperative. Lest your Achilles heel becomes your fatal flaw.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

So my suggestion is to face up to better instructional design. blended learning instructional design asynchronous conversation discussion face-to-face Helen Blunden human interaction isolation meetups online learning P2P peer-to-peer semi-synchronous social social presence social presence theory student synchronous'

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 2, 2019

I include it in my list of faves however because it flies in the face of contemporary notions of instructional design. While educational, Hardcore History isn’t about education. Each episode spans several hours and frankly I could listen to Dan Carlin talk all day.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Their courses can be completed online over several months, and they cover red hot topics such as data analytics and UX design. I admit to not taking too much notice of this trend until Google launched its Career Certificates. Their website says it all: Learn job-ready skills to start or advance your career in high-demand fields.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 27, 2011

If they’re the bad and ugly aspects of MCQ design, what’s the good? Alarmingly, many of the studies were inconclusive, adopted a flawed experimental design, and/or didn’t compare the performances of the quiz-takers on the job under the different treatments – which is the whole point!

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

In the 1990s, constructivism heralded a new dawn in instructional design, turbo-charged by the rise of Web 2.0. However, I think the diagram misleadingly suggests an evolution of instructional design. Why, in the midst of ever-advancing learning theory and progressive instructional design, does such rampant instructivism persist?

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

No more need for storage and transport; just a licence to print the proprietary design. Consider a methodology such as Human Centered Design. Instead of stockpiling surgical equipment in big rooms – or worse, waiting for products on backorder – a hospital will be able to build the device it needs on-demand.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 28, 2014

Responsive web design may render my argument moot – but only when rapid authoring tools adopt the protocol, enabling Average Joe to implement it. Instead, concentrate your efforts on the one course that will fit onto desktops and laptops and tablets – ie what your target audience will use to consume it. Mindset #2 – Pull.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2012

Hell-bent on avoiding the “Next” button, many instructional designers will delinearise the content by creating a course homepage with a raft of topics represented by funky icons. This is constructivist design. By design, an online course is meant to transmit knowledge to the learner.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

However, if I were to consider (read “fantasise&# ) a greenfield opportunity (read “pipedream&# ), what would I design? Essentially I would base my design on three core components, as illustrated in Figure 1. However I base my design on two core components, as illustrated in Figure 2. Informal Learning Environment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

While I consider the informal first philosophy a giant leap in L&D maturity, it essentially pertains to instructional design. For a more holistic view of L&D, I propose an “assessment first” philosophy by which the capability of the target audience is analysed prior to any design work being undertaken.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Let’s get rid of the instructional designers! They’re not like us. I can’t use Facebook. E-Learning = Innovation = Science. The Average Joe imperative. Why I blog. The dawn of a new generation. Let’s get rid of the instructors! The learnification of education. The grassroots of learning. Merry Christmas!

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Last week I was invited by David Swaddle to be a panellist at the Sydney eLearning and Instructional Design meetup. Does Australia need improved quality benchmarking or qualifications for L&D professionals such as instructional designers? How To Become An Instructional Designer. What exactly does an E-Learning Manager do?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

Australian Instructional Design Conference. • Theme: Designing instructionally sound and engaging learning. . • When: 16 February 2012. • Theme: Near future of learning in Australia. • More info: Learning Cafe. • Where: Sydney. • When: 21 March 2012. • More info: LearnX Foundation.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

• instructional design. The book is entitled E-Learning Provocateur: Volume 1 and my intent is to provoke deeper thinking across a range of themes in the modern workplace, including: • social media. • learning theory. • pedagogy. • learning styles. • blended learning. • informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Learning theory & instructional design. • Theory-informed instructional design tips. I hope you take the opportunity to read any that you may have missed. Oh, and please leave a comment or two or three…! • Taxonomy of Learning Theories. • The two faces of blended learning. • Style counsel.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 29, 2012

• Instructional design. • Graphic design. . • Training needs analysis. • Content curation. • Content mapping. • Content sourcing. • Content development. • Content editing. • Multimedia production. • Courseware development. • Courseware testing. • IT helpdesk.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When running courses on how to create engaging eLearning (concentrating on the self-study module) we concentrate on designing, as Cathy Moore puts it, experiences. I was so enamoured with what she wrote that I feel compelled to repeat it here… An excellent post Ryan.

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