Highlights from Elliott Masie Learning Design Seminar & Lab

attended June 23-25, 2008

Jennifer Falkowski (SMRLA)

Joanne Trepp (AACPL)

“Great Learning Starts with Innovative Learning Design” –Elliott Masie

What is the Masie Center?

What is your idea of Learning Design?

Learning Design

1. About decisions not traditions

2. Separate from development

3. Evidence based

Activity

You have five minutes to:

• Go to your browser and open Google

• Search on the terms “social learning”

• See if you can find a definition of social learning

Social Learning

Design Sliders

Individual Social

Design Sliders

Procedural Affective

Design Sliders

1 hour 1 week +

ADDIE Model

• Analysis

• Design

• Development

• Implementation

• Evaluation

New Technologies

• Live video studio in Elliott’s learning center

• Chumby – interactive media player. Stay on top of the latest news and pop culture.

Technology shouldn’t be there for technology’s sake

• Audience –digital native or digital immigrant?

• Add social component

• Add collaboration

• Reinforce training

Time to Competency

Challenges to time to competency-• Lack of consistency• Different learning styles• Unclear picture of need• Supervisor’s resistance• Lack of role models• Design doesn’t map to level of learner• Technology is not available

Strategies to Accelerate Time to Competency

Concept of Fail Forward

• Most learning programs don’t allow or leverage failure

• Paul Gee “Fail Forward” “

• Learners need to see failure as informative

• Failure should be part of fun and central to learning.

Levels of Competencies

• Memorization – I know it

• Familiarization – Prompted memory

• Navigational – I’ve seen it & know where to get it when needed

• Support Access- Haven’t seen it before, but, know how to get it when needed

Activity: Levels of Competency

What level of competency is needed?

Memorization Familiarization Navigational Support Access

Mail merge in Word

Circ. system goes down in branch

Patron is looking for an author like Janet Evanovich

Fire alarm goes off in branch.

Resources

• Elliott Masie’s Learning Trends

http://trends.masie.com• The Masie Center Learning Lab & Think Tank

http://www.masie.com• www.intronetworks.com Smart social Networks

with free webinars • www.commoncraft.com “in plain English” videos• www.icue.com online learning environment

Thanks for your Participation!