Leaders in Learning Design

Julie Dirkson with Dr. Joanne Bentley & Graham Edmondson -- #5

In this episode of Leaders in Learning Design, Joanne and Graham are talking with Learning Strategist and Instructional Design author Julie Dirkson. She specializes in making learning and instructional theory accessible to designers by assignment. Her practical, grounded approach is focused on how people learn. She recommends always starting with good learning principles, regardless of the delivery medium. Even the classically trained ISD professional may benefit from her iconic stick figure learning analogies to upgrade their approach.

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In this episode of Leaders in Learning Design, Joanne and Graham are talking with Dr. Max Cropper, who has spent his career as an instructional designer searching for the most effective instructional designs. In his experience it's very rare that the best instructional practices are applied either face-to-face or online. For example, when was the last time you completed a hierarchical task analysis, so you were confident you had included all the subtasks in your real-world whole task rather than being distracted by a list of topics? Read the transcript and download the free white paper on best-practice instructional strategies.

In this episode of Leaders in Learning Design, Joanne and Graham are talking with Donnie Patrick, who has worked and advised on many military and UN related training projects over the years. He is passionate about using data to improve the quality of instruction. The tools may change but the future of virtual training is in building quality materials – using research and experts in the field to push the limits, collect good data, and share what works! 

In this episode of Leaders in Learning Design, Joanne and Graham are talking with Dr. Reo McBride, who has been on the frontlines of online learning in a variety of academic centers for over 25 years. To be effective he recommends transitioning F2F to virtual must stay focused on redesigning for better learning outcomes using the First Principles of Instruction and keeping with good pedagogy for quality instruction. 

In the face of Covid-19, the L&D world has been faced with rapidly moving learning to the virtual classroom -- and it hasn’t proven as easy as might have been imagined. In fact, it has been extremely painful for lots of organizations. In the first of our series, Dr Joanne Bentley and Graham Edmondson, MD at Blue Consulting and Resourcing, discuss how challenging it can be to create successful virtual learning experiences, and share their own perspective on what L&D professionals and decision makers need to do to make a rapid migration to a virtual delivery. 

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