Learning Experience Leader

Today’s guests are Moritz Philip Recke and Stefano Perna. Moritz is a media technology engineer and develops transformative tools for education. He does research in the field of learning design and is co-founder of https://learningdesign.tools.

Stefano is a designer and educator working at the intersections of technology, media, and humanities. He is a learning design researcher and co-founder of https://learningdesign.tools.

Today we talk all about learning objectives, including

• The Learning Objective Design Card Deck that this team has been working on
• An overview of Bloom’s taxonomy and the language of learning objectives
• The function of objectives and their place in an evolving ecosystem of learning content

Resources

Connect with Moritz and Stafano online

• Moritz on Twitter https://twitter.com/mprecke
• Moritz on LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/mprecke
• Moritz’s website https://moritzrecke.com
• Stefano on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefano-perna-b2715417/

Learn more about the Learning Objective Design Deck with these resources:

• Website: https://learningdesign.tools (access free downloads)
• PDF of overview deck https://bit.ly/LO-Design-Deck
• Miro version of the cards http://bit.ly/miroverse

Join the conversation on the LX Leader LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-experience-leader-podcast

Today I’m joined by Mandy Lambert, an instructional designer interning at Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and our discussion is all about the book Design Thinking for Training and Development by Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher. From the back of the book:

"When training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive improved performance. With its hands-on, use-it-today approach, this book will get you started on your own journey to applying design thinking."

In summarizing and reflecting on the book we cover topics such as:

• 4 key pillars design thinking for learning design
• The value of the 5 kinds of constraints
• How a great design considers the sweet spot of all stakeholders, not just learners
• The elements of a great implementation plan

And much more!

You can check out more about the book here:

• Q&A with the authors: https://www.td.org/press-release/q-a-with-the-authors-of-design-thinking-for-training-and-development
• Buy the book: https://www.td.org/books/design-thinking-for-training-and-development

Also, learn more about Mandy at her website! https://mandylambert100.wixsite.com/website

Credits

Introduction music, “For Mimi” by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Samuel is the person behind UserOnboard.com, which provides tips and tricks for user onboarding in the form of critiques of popular web app onboarding examples. Samuel has worked with UX and User Onboarding for companies like Spotify, Audible, Intuit, and Khan Academy, and a host of others. He's also working on something new at ValuePaths.com, a growth framework for reliably and sustainably generating revenue.

Today we talk about:

• Overview of Samuel’s Value Path concept and how it relates to learning design
• The messy process of converting raw materials into a determined outcome
• How can we create an ecosystem to help people succeed beyond their expectations
• Orienting people towards the goal of your learning product will help them achieve

Resources:

• Learn more about Samuel and access his work: https://www.useronboard.com/contact/
• View the epic teardowns of onboarding sites at https://www.UserOnboard.com
• Video explaining the concept of value path: http://valuepaths.com/

Join the conversation on the LX Leader LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-experience-leader-podcast

Today’s guest is Lieutenant Commander Ryan Williams of the US Navy. Before joining the Navy he enlisted in the US Air Force where he served as a member of The Band of the Golden West and later he served as a staff chaplain at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Additionally, he served as a Staff Chaplain at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Salt Lake City VA hospital. Ryan’s Navy Chaplain Corps service has included assignments with the Marines, Clinical Staff Chaplain at Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Command Chaplain on the USNS MERCY hospital ship, and the USS Antietam. He is now at the US Coast Guard Training Center in Petaluma California.

Today we discuss:

• Identifying and aligning with your values
• The power of inviting reflection to make room for learning
• Motivation as an outcome of taking action
• Facing conflict by choosing to engage and letting go of controlling the outcome

Resources

• See the transcript and chapter headings on the LX Leader Website
• Join the conversation on LinkedIn
• 64 // Reframing Conflict and Helpfulness with Heather Gilmartin Adams
• 26 // The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney
• 23 // Learner Agency & Responsibility with Dr. Michael Matthews
• The Application of Layer Theory to Design: The Control Layer (Dr. Andy Gibbons and Matt Langton)

Heather is a senior consultant at RedThread Research. Trained in conflict resolution and organizational development, Heather has spent the past ten years in various capacities at organizational culture and mindset change consultancies as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Today we talk about:

• Heather’s journey in trying to answer the question: how can I help people and organizations to stop fighting and get along?
• What makes us human and implications for learning design and conflict resolution
• Systems change vs behavioral change
• The 3 levels of partnership from Arbinger Institute and how to to reframe what it means to help
• Methods for approaching conflict and hard conversations, including saying “no”

Resources:

👉 ReadThread Research Paper - Humanizing Learning research

👉 Episode 26: The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney

👉 Episode 49: Positive Deviance and Facilitating Transformational Leadership with Dr. Beth Wilkins

👉 The Making of a Manager: What to do When Everyone Looks to You (book)

👉 Difficult Conversations(book)

👉 Works from John Paul Lederach

Hey everyone! I wanted to provide a very brief update about the hosting of the show. I’m moving the podcast to a new podcasting service and am keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t lose any of you in the process.

What does this mean for you?

Moving to Buzzsprout means better show notes and access to resources for you, it appears to include tags and chapter headings which if your podcast service supports it should make it easier for you to scan or reference parts of episodes after the fact, and it's simply more accessible than what I was using before.

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Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI. Megan is the author of multiple books, including Agile for Instructional Designers which will talk about today.

Also in this conversation we discuss:

• Megan’s definition and application of agile project management
• Examples of agile development projects that Megan’s team is working on right now
• And insights into working with stakeholders and making better for project estimates

Resources:
👉 [BETA] Review this episode with this mini-review!
👉 A Quick Guide to LLAMA (complimentary eBook for LX Leader Listeners)
👉 Agile for Instructional Designers (book)
👉 April 2021 Learning Guild Research (article)
👉 Collection of articles and resources: https://www.torrancelearning.com/llama/

While earning her master’s degree in Instructional Psychology & Technology at BYU, Alyssa worked on instructional design projects and teams in university, K-12, and corporate settings. Her work at BYU Independent Study introduced her to how Agile principles can be applied and adapted to instructional design, which became the subject of her master’s thesis. She currently works as a Learning Experience Designer at Qualtrics in the world of sales enablement.

Today we talk about:
👉 Agile and waterfall project management methodologies as related to instructional design
👉 Alyssa’s experience of using agile methodologies in academic and corporate organizations
👉 Estimating work to be done using “planning poker”
👉 An example of a traditional waterfall project viewed from an agile perspective

Resources:
👉 Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Book)
👉 Tiny Habits (Book)
👉 Episode 42: Habits, Context and Designing for Behavior Change with Andrew Webb
👉 Agile for Instructional Designers (Book)

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Dr. Cara North is a learning & Development leader, speaker, and researcher and currently works as the Operations Training Manager at Silfex, inc. Her previous experience includes learning experience design work at Ohio State University and Amazon and President of the Columbus Ohio chapter of ATD.

Today we talk about:

• Transitioning from being an individual contributor to a learning leader
• Tenacity and daily committed learning as key things to help you to the next level
• How Cara uses social media and daily habits to cultivate a personal learning environment
• The three buckets of networking

Resources
👉 Nuzzle - social media aggregator
👉 Feedly - blog post aggregator
👉 Buffer - social media publisher
👉 Cara’s job ID and resources posting texting number - 614-963-2951
👉 Edtechbooks.org - free open source books, articles, and journals
👉 Journal of Applied Instructional Design (via Edtechbooks.org)
👉 eLearning Heroes Challenge - Articulate

Today’s episode is the third and final part of an extended conversation about experience design with Dr. Bob Rossman and Dr. Mat Duerden. If you haven’t heard the first and second episodes in this mini-series, I recommend you go back and check those out. The focus of this conversation is on the third section of the book Designing Experiences, which my guests co-authored.

Today we talk about:
👉 The role of story and corporate strategy in experience design
👉 How services and experiences work together and differ