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Learning & Development

SIMPLY BORROWING LEARNER PERSONAS FROM MARKETING WON’T WORK; HERE’S WHAT TO DO INSTEAD

In L&D, personas are fictional learners that reflect real ones. We create them so we can better understand the aspirations and challenges of learners, and work towards creating a solution that better aligns with their needs. The term is borrowed from the world of marketing, which uses buyer personas. However, we’d do well to consider the implications for L&D and tweak it to suit our purpose, instead of adapting it directly from there.

January 25, 2023

Learning & Development

SOLUTIONING IMPLICATIONS OF HEGEMONY

There are some biases that are harder to spot than others because they almost characterize the thinking of the field itself. Design is conceived in the real world; it is practiced by people living in the real world. These minds are also educated in design and conditioned daily by the real world.

January 18, 2023

Learning & Development

HEGEMONY, GENERATIONAL PROFILING AND AGEISM

The power of hegemony is that even something with very limited applicability can be packaged as ‘universal’. You want to explore decolonizing instructional design? Start here with how we define, analyze and characterize people. It is a necessary act of epistemic rebellion to stop using these generational categorizations to describe our learners, as if these have any kind of universal validity.

January 11, 2023

Learning & Development

WHY I DON’T MIND USING ‘LEARNER’ UNTIL A BETTER WORD COMES ALONG

L&D has long had a history of coming up with solutions that fall woefully short of achieving our goals. But changing a word in order to make up for a shortcoming in the way we do our work is not the answer. Instead, I strongly suggest that we focus on improving our solutions by using thoughtful strategies and approaches. Here are some counter arguments for the proposal to stop using the word ‘learner’.

January 4, 2023

E-Learning

CONRAD GOTTFREDSON – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

In this exclusive interview with Learnnovators, Conrad Gottfredson shares his insights on the need for prioritizing performance support over the traditional approaches to workplace training. He explains his views on the significance of re-imagining workplace learning by shifting from a ‘learning’ mindset to a ‘performance-first’ mindset. Con’s recommendation to extend our reach into the workflow – where the real learning takes place, is highly thought-provoking.

November 22, 2022

E-Learning

STELLA COLLINS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

In this exclusive interview with Learnnovators, Stella Collins shares her insights on how learning really works in the human brain. She explains her views on the significance of having a better understanding of ‘brain science’ and mastering ways to bring that into learning design. Stella’s recommendation to give people the ‘skills of learning’ first before we ask them to self-direct their learning, is highly thought-provoking.

September 5, 2022

E-Learning

NICK SHACKLETON JONES – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

In this exclusive interview with Learnnovators, Nick Shackleton Jones shares his insights on how people really learn. He explains his views on the difference between education and learning in the context of our workplaces. Nick’s recommendation to provide relevant resources, accessible at the point of need to our people at work, so as to ensure that ‘less learning’ will take place, is highly thought-provoking.

May 9, 2022

E-Learning

JOHN HINCHLIFFE – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

In this exclusive interview with Learnnovators, John Hinchliffe shares his insights on the changing nature of workplace learning in relation to the world of work.

November 15, 2021

SIMPLY BORROWING LEARNER PERSONAS FROM MARKETING WON’T WORK; HERE’S WHAT TO DO INSTEAD

SOLUTIONING IMPLICATIONS OF HEGEMONY

HEGEMONY, GENERATIONAL PROFILING AND AGEISM

WHY I DON’T MIND USING ‘LEARNER’ UNTIL A BETTER WORD COMES ALONG

CONRAD GOTTFREDSON – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

STELLA COLLINS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

NICK SHACKLETON JONES – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

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