Show Me the Money: The 10th $tep of De$ign

In a recent post, I suggested that we need to have an 8th and 9th step of design to predict and design for the expected changes in the learners' behaviour and condition that result from the successful application of their learning. Now, I'd like to suggest a 10th step -- the How Much? -- as I think describes a reality of organizing and designing both in-house (i.e. funded) and public courses. Yep, that's right! Money, filthy lucre, the bottom line, baby! It's all about the Benjamins (or the Lizzie's if you're Canadian like me).

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Visuals, Dialogue & Learning: Your Alternative Pictures of the Steps of Design

Recently I created a short instructional video that explains how the different steps of design can be displayed as a learning design canvas. Check it out! The post generated some excellent comments and a few alternative examples (see below). Based on your feedback, I've added the 8th (SO THAT... / Transfer) and 9th (SO WHAT.../ IMPACT) steps to create an expanded learning design canvas (or click here for a Word version of the canvas you can fill in).

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7 Ate 9*: Do We Need More Steps of Design?

The 7 Steps of Design In my last post I debuted a Instructional Video for the Learning Design Canvas that outlined how I see the 7 Steps of Design fit together..... ....But as GLP Partner, Jeanette Romkema, commented the other day, it is a helpful to add some additional steps to consider how the learning will make a difference after the workshop. Drawing from Vella, Berardinelli & Burow's work on Learning Evaluation, (and also Kirkpatrick and Fitzgerald), I would frame these additional steps as: Step 8: SO THAT...Transfer: or how the learners will apply their learning in their life, organization or community. This often describes a change in the learner's behaviour. e.g. John applies his new skills in insulating his home. Step 9: SO WHAT... Impact, or the difference that applying the learning makes for their life, organization. This usually describes a change in condition. e.g. John's heating bills go down and his green house gas emissions go down.

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A Learning Design Canvas - A Video Tutorial

A few months back....I ask for feedback on a draft "learning design canvas" -- a new-fangled graphic that would show how the various steps of a learning design fit together in a compelling visual format that would simplify the design the process and save the world! I've also been looking for a way to explain how to the use the canvas, so I put together a short video that explains how it works.....

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