Sarah Slade

I’m listening in to a webinar on Learning in the flow of work – ie workplace learning and this slide came up…

I think this illustrates what I’ve been saying in the course – that academically focused learning design doesn’t suit workplace users because people learn at the point of need, in the flow of their work. Completing standardised learning produced by an agency that doesn’t have much relevance to your context; rambling, 2-hour training assets that suck the air out of a room; all of this creates ineffective learning.

He’s now quoting Andrew Jacobs’ saying learning designers should think like engineers – find out how things work, find the critical points of failure and work at a problem until it stops being a problem.

This is what I’m trying to do: trying to identify blockers, removing friction and creating or remixing assets to suit our learners’ needs.