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Obelisk & ESF invited L&D professionals to the final event learning network e-learning with a keynote by Julie Dirksen, international speaker and expert in learning strategy & design. They also got a demonstration of a number of e-learning projects. The learning architects of the e-learning learning network provided insight into their didactic choices, obstacles overcome and take-aways in the design of their e-learning.
While you may have a nice theoretical plan for setting up your e-learnings, practice is often another matter.
For example, you run into:
- Limited access to appropriate tools and technologies.
- Insufficient time and resources to professionally set up the e-learning.
- Insufficient feedback and support during the learning process.
- Difficulty in keeping the e-learning up to date.
- Measuring the effectiveness and impact of e-learning programs is still a question mark.
- Difficulty integrating the e-learning into the organization's existing learning and development systems.
- Resistance to change and adoption of new technologies.
During the closing event, they learned from the thoughtful choices, obstacles overcome and take-aways from the practice of a number of e-learning projects. Through a demo, the learning architects pointed out the difference between a theoretical plan and concrete implementation.
In March 2022, the ESF (European Social Fund) established a learning network of some 60 organizations. All with their own ongoing e-learning project. Colleges, technical experts, teachers and universities are some of the designers or learning architects. Under the guidance of an intervision supervisor from Obelisk, subgroups got to work exchanging experiences and learning needs. And now, as L&D professionals, they were able to learn from their findings.
During the event they saw a number of demonstrations . Distribution of the groups was done 1 week before the event based on the preference themes indicated,so be sure to indicate your interests when registering.
A short video of some of the presenters can be found via this link. These were supplemented along the way.
Julie Dirksen is a leading expert in instructional design, e-learning, and behavior change. She's a frequent speaker at industry events, the author of one of the bestselling books on instructional design, and an Elearning Guild Guildmaster. She has a degree in Instructional Systems Technology, and a whole lot of background in things like UX design, game-based learning, and behavior change.
Get to know Julie even better via her LinkedIn profile.
Learning and development, and particularly eLearning, has a broken feedback loop, and it's holding us back as a field. Because we usually can't see our products being used, we lack the most basic information necessary to improve what we do. Traditional evaluation at best is costly and difficult to measure, and at worst ignored altogether, or implemented in such a superficial way that it's meaningless. Even good evaluation measures are not granular enough to inform future design decisions. Agile evaluation methods will look at what we can learn from the field of software usability, and what practices we need to add to that for ensure successful e-learning design. Practitioners need to ensure they also have a feedback loop in order to move forward as designers and developers of e-learning.
We collected key insights from the e-learning learning network in a few blog articles. The e-learning learning network with about 60 organizations met four times in 2022. Each time some issues about e-learning were discussed in the subgroups. You can find the articles via the links below.
Blog 1: The first insights of the learning architects: interactivity in e-learning, the translation from physical to digital, inclusion and learning technologies.
Blog 2: Removing digitization barriers among teachers.
Blog 3: Digitization of learning requires change management.
You can reach Obelisk at: info@obelisk.be
