Complex skills in the workplace and what it means to design for them

Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner

Complex skills seem to be hard for many to ‘grasp’. This is clear when we look at general practice in corporate learning design, where complex skills are often decomposed (broken up) into separate constituent skills and both learned and practiced as if they don’t have to be applied on the job in an integrated manner.

This blog explores what complex skills are and how we should design for them to support learning transfer (so as to ensure that people can apply what they learn on the job) in the workplace.

You can read the full blog here.