Comments on: Learning Design Insights

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:58:46 +0000

In reply to Ron Shamwell. Ron, I'd add things like coach readiness and plan, stretch assignments, and more. And not a fan of best practices (I prefer best principles: that is, extract the principles and recontextualize, rather than try to migrate practices from other contexts). QM=Quality Matters? Would be better if it were open...but nice to have some tested and validated designs. Thanks for the comment.

By: Ron Shamwell

Ron Shamwell — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:20:19 +0000

Good learning design depends on content, best practices, delivery, LMS, infrastructure support, training, and student readiness, not to mention ID models, strategies, and principles. Oh, remember, quality assurance and guidance standards, several major post-secondary intuitions use QM.

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:02:45 +0000

In reply to Greg DeVore. Greg, I guess my complaint is that these then aren't *learning*. They're performance support, and that's fine, but calling it microlearning is then misleading. Thanks for weighing in.

By: Greg DeVore

Greg DeVore — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:04:43 +0000

One other view of Micro-Learning is that we offload information that is less important to be learned to a micro-learning resource (help article, video, checklist, etc.) which then makes it easier for us to learn and focus on things that really matter. There are so many tasks that we do on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis that aren’t really worth learning – meaning there is not real value in being able to recall every step of the process. If we can create micro-learning resources for those type of tasks we free our mind (and our employees) to focus on more important things.

I talked a little about decreasing what we need to learn by integrating e-learning and job aids:
http://www.outcomeapp.io/blog/improving-employee-training-by-integrating-instructor-led-e-learning-and-knowledge-bases/job-aids