One of the top attributes required for superior facilitation, is the ability to craft learning objectives… or as I would prefer to call them… performance objectives. I believe that if the objectives of the training session are not geared to help you perform, then it is no relevance. More often than not, I either find facilitators not setting objectives or setting the wrong objectives, or setting the objectives just for the heck of it. Now, each of these scenarios is dangerous and so in this episode, I will help you craft learner-centric objectives that are aimed at delivering performance.

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> Conscious Competence Matrix of the Stages of Learning [4:10]

> What if we do not set learning objectives? [8:16]

> What are the components of crafting a learning objective [10:15]

> What are the issues that need to be kept in mind while crafting objectives [19:03]

> How is it that some objectives are considered poorer than others [25:11]

> What are some examples of poorly structured objectives? [27:03]

> How to ensure that the objectives are crafted properly? [29:27]

> What are the right set of words that should be incorporated in learning objective statement [30:10]

> Take-aways [34:55]

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Different types of learning exist and different instructional conditions can bring about this learning…

The aim of any instructional designer is to not only make content relatable for the learners, but also make it enjoyable for the learner to feel inspired. Robert Gagne’s model provides a systematic process that helps educators and instructional designers develop strategies and create activities for training sessions.

There are many ways to present and reorganize the training material to make it meaningful and relevant to learners. This podcast aims to bring forward not just the theory, but also provides you with examples of how you can make your course content shine and engage your learners.

Let us dive a little deeper to see what this is all about, why is it important, what are the factors contributing to it, and, what can we, as facilitators, do to ensure that we build the right learning design.

This episode answers some key questions…

1. Who was Robert Gagne? [3:26]

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The ADDIE analysis phase serves a major role in the quality assurance process. It defines the project’s needs and ways to measure its success. If you skip ADDIE’s analysis phase, you can easily introduce mistaken assumptions into the project such as wrong focus that could lead the course to be boring and frustrating for the learners and to top it all you could end up with incomplete, redundant, or inaccurate content.

If you rush to development, you may not catch those errors until you launch the course. At that point, it can be very costly to fix or redesign the course. In essence, the training needs analysis is time well-spent.

Unsurprisingly, the better you study the requirements prior to the course creation, the more effective the resulting course will be. Analysis helps you gain a clear understanding of the primary target audience, learning goals, physical and organisational constraints, technical requirements and structural characteristics of the course, and criteria used for assessment.

Let us dive a little deeper to see what this is all about, why is it important, what are the factors contributing to it, and, what can we, as facilitators, do to ensure that we build the right learning design.

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Episode 05: Forgetting Curve!

Research says that people start forgetting within one hour of their training being completed. The research continues to state that this percentage dramatically increase with lapse of time. Personally speaking, the percentages and the spread across days may be questionable, but the figures are high for sure. A dirty secret of corporate training is that no matter how much you invest into training and development, nearly everything you teach to your employees will be forgotten. Indeed, although corporations spend billions of dollars every year on training, this investment is like pumping gas into a car that has a hole in the tank. All of your hard work simply drains away. But does that mean that we stop training, or are there ways to improve upon the situation.

Let us dive a little deeper to see what this is all about, why does this happen, what are the factors contributing to it, and, what can we, as facilitators, do to arrest the atrophy of knowledge & skills learnt.

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This episode answers some key questions…

1. What is memory? [9:05]

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I like to think of it as a mindset that focuses on how to look at challenges around us. A mindset that can help us adapt to the process of being more mindful, and open to the right direction towards innovation. But while we do that, we must also know that it is no magic bullet. Methodologies and processes are important, but these are mere tools. What one needs to do is to get the right mindset to make that difference, and to really find the right direction towards the right solution.

Its about being curious. It’s the ability to observe. Its about understanding and empathising with the people you are designing for. Its not about optimizing, but about challenging to innovate. Its about being Systemic, yet be systematic about it.

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This episode answers some key questions…

1. What is the difference between Convergent and Divergent Thinking? [4:19]

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This is Episode #2... this episode dives into Dr. John Keller’s ARCS model of Learner-Motivation!

This episode answers some key questions regards performance…

1. Why is learner-engagement important?

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This episode dives into elements of Performance Improvement, inspired by Dr. Robert Mager's book, 'What Every Manager Should Know About Training'

This episode answers some key questions regards performance…

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Welcome to The Theory of Learning of Podcast. 

Theory of Learning is a show about helping you become a superior facilitator. And we do this by introducing you to digestible nuggets on various concepts at play in a learning environment.