THE LEARNNOVATORS BLOG

This blog presents informative articles and lots of useful tools and resources on learning design, covering e-learning, m-learning, gamified learning, informal learning, 70:20:10 and much more.

Instructional Design

SO YOU’VE BUILT YOUR LEARNER PERSONAS. NOW WHAT?

We have seen L&D teams pour their hearts into the creation of personas, often involving lengthy discussions and debates, only to have them sitting on a shelf, gathering dust. Don’t let that be you. This article delves into what should happen (or can happen) once your personas are defined.

Instructional Design

HERE’S HOW TO DESIGN A GREAT ONBOARDING PROGRAM

A good employee onboarding program does more than just introduce them to the company’s vision and values. It helps them settle down quickly in their new role, and feel capable and confident in their ability to contribute to the success of the organization. Let’s explore some ideas for making your next onboarding a great one.

Learning & Development

CREATING VALUES TRAINING THAT ROCKS

Getting employees to align with organizational values is not easy. This article explores ways to take your values training beyond a mere checkbox activity.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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