Learning Experience Design Journey

Tyler Small, Director of Learning and Development at Safe & Reliable Healthcare, invited me to read his article titled “What Every SME Should Know...” The purpose of the article as described by Tyler is the following: “This article will help you understand this journey (the development of instructional design project) through the lens of Instructional Design Layers, and also how you can contribute to each layer (if time allows), while letting the Instructional Designer do most of the instructional design work.”

The following is my comments and feedback on the article that I wish to document here for my followers:

Thank you Tyler for sharing your ideas and thoughts in this area of expertise.

It will also be useful for the SME to realize that those layers you mentioned in your article are interconnected and feed into each other during the duration of the development journey even though the focus would be on different layers at different stages.

I would highly recommend the following points:

• add the ability to manage the change in addition to the Communication Layer. Please refer to Diagram 7 of my article titled “Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Prepare an Agile Workforce: A Practical Approach” - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/utilizing-emerging-technologies-prepare-agile-approach-mansour/ for a practical change management and knowledge transfer plan.
• go beyond the sharing of the knowledge to more into the skills and application components of the training methodology. Please refer to Diagram 1 of my article titled “Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Prepare an Agile Workforce: A Practical Approach” - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/utilizing-emerging-technologies-prepare-agile-approach-mansour/. This would greatly help in moving from the Substitution to the Redefinition level on the SAMR model (https://www.schrockguide.net/samr.html).
• complement the formal learning with social learning utilizing self-created content and experiences as well as micro learning. Checkout my article titled “Social Learning in the Social Enterprise” - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/social-learning-enterprise-dr-mansour-kamel-mansour/
• be aware that experts leave out or distort approximately 70% of the information (action and decision steps) learners need to replicate the expert’s performance as reported by Multiple studies. Please refer to my article titled “Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA): An Innovative Methodology to Maximizing the Impact of Instructional Design and Training” - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/cognitive-task-analysis-cta-innovative-methodology-impact-mansour/.

I hope this is helpful.