Educación a Distancia y TIC

Organizations have started to negotiate their transition from the strategies they improvised for dealing with the pandemic restrictions imposed on travel and in-person gatherings. L&D managers must also continue to adjust and adapt learning experience design and development methods. This is not only important in order for L&D to remain relevant to evolving business strategies, but also to support efforts to retain employees by developing them.

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Of late, there’s been considerable discussion of the term learning experience design, both positive and negative. As with all such buzz phrases, it’s worthwhile examining what the promises and perils are. Ultimately, it’s about whether there’s value to be found in the concept.

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Creativity is often thought of as a mysterious phenomenon, arising out of those ‘struck by lightning’ moments. Although it is an important aspect of the instructional design process, it seems to be missing from the standard systems-based instructional design models. In addition, creative thinking is rarely discussed in industry conversations.

With all the complaints about unimaginative instruction, the time is ripe to investigate, examine and analyze creative thinking. In fact, the more we decompose and try to understand creativity, the greater are the chances for nurturing it. For example, one study found that the explicit instructions to “be creative” facilitated this type of thinking in several domains, such as, artistic and mathematical, across cultural and ethnic groups (Chen et al. 2005).

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Although "learning architecture" and "learning experience design" are ideas that have been growing over the past several years, events in 2020 are driving them forward at an accelerated pace. It is important not to think of "returning to normal" as meaning "returning to 2019". At the risk of reciting the obvious, this article looks at how things have changed, and what we in L&D organizations need to do to adapt and adjust.

As the pandemic and economic conditions continue to drive organizational practices, we have discovered that:

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An increasing number of subject matter experts are creating learning content. Here are some tips on how to let them do that in an effective way.

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Think your organization is too young, hip, and fresh to have baby boomers on its books? Think again.

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