Tag: #LearningDesign
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The Cost of Activity Metrics
The slides were moving fast. NPS scores were up. The chat was full of fire emojis and congratulations. Someone typed “incredible work team” and it got fourteen thumbs up before the next slide appeared. I was sitting at my desk thinking one thing. Will any of this change what I see happening with our partners?…
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The Medium is the Message
Leadership + Adult Learning Design A participant in a three-day training I led recently had a realization at the very end, one I think about more than almost anything else from that week. The training was built around helping teachers develop students’ capacity to read, write, think, and speak. For three days, we modeled every…
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The Reframe
A participant wrote something in her closing reflection that I haven’t stopped thinking about. She wasn’t a learning and development professional. She was a classroom teacher, sitting in a two-day professional learning session, answering a routine end-of-training prompt: What are your key takeaways? She wrote this: “Increasing rigor isn’t about making the course harder. It’s…