As our organizations expand, we will rarely create a training program that will only have one delivery run in one location.
The very nature of multinational corporations demand global learning initiatives. Even businesses classified as “small” now include dispersed team members (ours does – InSync’s 70 practitioners live and work on almost every continent).
Problematically, many stakeholders believe that rolling out global training just means “deliver existing content to every cohort.”
Topics: Virtual Classroom - Instructional Design, Global Virtual Classroom, Blended Learning Instructional Design
I enjoy asking my fellow instructional designers whether they consider themselves designers or developers. Why?
Because most of the time, they answer with a question: “What’s the difference?”
And then I get to wax poetic about the differences in my two favorite phases in ADDIE: Design and Develop.
Topics: Instructional Design, Blended Learning Instructional Design, ADDIE
The A in ADDIE stands for assessment, right? Or is it analysis? I can never remember.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an “analysis” is defined as, “the careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do and how they are related to each other.” To analyze something is to separate a whole into its component parts, which allows a person to break something complex down into simpler and more basic elements.
On the other hand, an “assessment” is defined as, “the act of making a judgment about something. To assess something, you are estimating the value or character of the object.”
Scenario-based learning offers a powerful instructional design option. This process “uses interactive situations to engage non-engaged learners in active learning strategies.”
Designers leverage available technology to create experiences in which learners can solve problems and interact with provided situations to learn new skills.
Topics: Virtual Classroom - Instructional Design, Blended Learning Instructional Design, Scenario-Based Learning
Virtually There Session Recap
Does your organization’s learning function struggle to improve long-term performance of employees? Would it surprise you that this result occurs with consistent frequency?
After nearly four decades of experience in L&D, thought leader Bob Mosher has witnessed the disappointing phenomenon over and over again.
The traditional model of training does not serve our learne
Topics: Virtually There, Blended Learning Instructional Design, Virtual Teams & Modern Workplace
Learning is a process.
As workplaces rapidly evolve to adapt to changing market dynamics, skill building must change too. Trainers work to support technical and soft-skill improvement within the same program.
How can we balance both? By using learning campaigns.
Campaign Basics
Traditional training usually includes:
Topics: Modern Blended Learning, Blended Learning Campaigns, Blended Learning Instructional Design
Virtually There Session Recap
The future of learning is blended. As content becomes more complex, learner attention spans shorten, and new technologies emerge, a combination approach to training offers engagement and impact.
But what stars need to align in order to create an effective blend? Expert Dr. Rebecca Sutherns joined the Virtually There series to share five case studies from her career that defined her personal best practices. Four success factors proved particularly pertinent to our processes.
Topics: Virtually There, Modern Blended Learning, Blended Learning Instructional Design
With plenty of new instructional strategies, techniques, and technologies available to us to create modern learning, it seems creating a comprehensive and instructionally sound blended learning solution should be fairly easy.
But it’s not.
Simply stringing together a bunch of learning assets into the curriculum isn’t enough to encourage individuals to complete the blend. That’s because blended learning is much more than content associated with a common theme. Blended learning should create a purposeful learning journey; a journey in which the traveler recognizes the value of each step along the way.
Topics: Modern Blended Learning, Blended Learning Campaigns, Blended Learning Instructional Design
The design and implementation of blended learning includes many moving parts. We consider the LMS that will host all the content, and the virtual classroom platform on which we will deliver live online components. We consider our learners, and the skills they need to build, and the wisdom they already possess. We also consider where learning will happen – whether in a classroom, on a mobile device, at a learner’s desk, or on-the-job.
One element we often overlook, though? Time. By not thinking through how learning takes place, we limit the potential of our programs.
Topics: Modern Blended Learning, Blended Learning Campaigns, Blended Learning Instructional Design
If you were unfamiliar with L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz and read a description of the elements of the story, you’d likely see a list something like the following:
Topics: Microlearning, Content Curation, Storytelling & Storyboarding, Blended Learning Instructional Design, Course Maps
