“𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗲𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.” In this clip, Tim Slade reflects on the overlap between accidental instructional designers and those who view eLearning as just content output. The result? Designs that don’t always serve the learner. Great reminder that tools alone don’t make great learning; thoughtful design does. 🎧 Watch the full episode via the link is in the comments. #InstructionalDesign #eLearning #LearningTheory #AdultLearning #LearningAndDevelopment
Bill Crose
8mo
Sorry, couldn't resist another comment! Content development was the hallmark of the Information Age. We passed that, the IoT Age, and we're now in the AI Age. Sure, you can use AI to make a bigger mountain of content faster, or you can use it to enable performance, assure perfect performance, and continuously improve performance in ways that can rapidly and measurably grow a business's sustainable profit—if you choose. We gotta get honest. Most learning (TL) orgs are only responsible and accountable for training. Learning (practice, coaching, and long-term memorization) is delegated to supervisors. Learning is a weak performance enabler because workers must perfectly recall and perform every step of an SOP while on the job, without support or aids. Really? That's impossible when the SOP has too many steps, changes often, or is rarely performed. Notably, AI promises to enable businesses to make better decisions faster, cheaper, and without the bias, greed, and self-service of human decision-makers. With that, we can expect most non-labor roles to vanish, making it an existential priority for TLs to shift to hard skills, new ways to enable/assure/improve performance, & focus on rapidly growing sustainable profit.
This is the problem with telling educators outside of L&D that it’s easy to get into ID/LXD. If we are recruiting future L&D professionals, let’s pull from fields like Marketing, Sales, UX design, business - much more alignment in these fields. Anyone can learn a tool and call themselves a LXD.
Bill Crose
8mo
The absurdity of training/learning/instructional design is that you don't need to be educated to create educational content or to become a CLO; a 3-hour Langevin class is often an acceptable equivalency. That's not a good example for current and wannabe IDs, CLOs, or learners, and it doesn't speak well of the profession. In the 1990s, we unsuccessfully tried making training a profession. I spent the time & money to get an MS in ID and created the role of learning tech mgr at a large regional bank. I reported to a marketing school grad who was responsible for approving my budget. They asked me more than once to explain the difference between Word and Windows. I also reported to a former hotel manager who rose to global corporate training director while I was in charge of global learning tech. I advised consolidating all learning content development to Adobe products/Captivate. We'd save money on volume discounts, and I'd be able to help designers as they helped each other. No-brainer. The director thought it would be better if designers were free to use whatever authoring system they wanted. I could give you 1,000 similar examples of nonprofessionals in the training organization. Bottom line, a Ford salesman should drive a Ford.
Bob Taylor
8mo
Great discussion! Also see recent advances with Agentic AI deployed in support of adult education and professional development. As for preparing the next gen of ID folks, perhaps they'll demonstrate mastery of the instructional craft by developing our next gen digital coaches. Sign me up!
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