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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.

Learnnovators 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.

Learnnovators 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.

Learnnovators 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’.

Learnnovators January 4, 2023
Learning & Development

HOW TO PROVE THE VALUE OF YOUR L&D TEAM

Struggling to prove the value of your L&D team to stakeholders? Here are some practical pointers to help you with that.

Learnnovators December 21, 2022
Instructional Design

HUMOR IN INSTRUCTIONAL WRITING – IT’S NO LAUGHING MATTER

We’re used to trying different tactics to make our content a little bit more engaging. But here, we are talking about a highly under-utilized tactic – humor. I can hear the alarm bells ringing already. The content is too serious! No one will laugh! I don’t know how to write humor!… and so on. Relax. This article explores a few tips you can use to incorporate a little bit of humor into your next instructional writing project. Hope you have fun!

Learnnovators December 14, 2022
Instructional Design

10 GUARANTEED TIPS TO MAKE YOUR COURSE FAIL

This article is a light-hearted take on how to ensure course failure. So, have a read, and make sure you don’t implement any of the ideas listed.

Learnnovators December 7, 2022
Learning & Development

GETTING STARTED WITH LEARNING IMPACT MEASUREMENT

L&D teams seem to follow an all or nothing approach when it comes to learning impact measurement. If you’re measuring a lot of parameters, then good. But if you’re measuring nothing, here are some pointers to get started.

Learnnovators November 24, 2022
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.

Learnnovators November 22, 2022
Learning & Development

32 NON-L&D BOOKS FOR L&D PROFESSIONALS

L&D is an integrative domain that draws on so many other subjects. Therefore, it’s essential that we educate ourselves on these subjects. This article covers a list of the disciplines that are of interest to those in our field, along with some book suggestions under each discipline.

Learnnovators November 16, 2022
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