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Reflecting on 2024: Key Takeaways in Learning Design

Reflecting on 2024: Key Takeaways in Learning Design

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As we approach the end of 2024, the learning and development landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by technological advancements and changing workforce needs. Corporate HR leaders must stay abreast of these trends to ensure their organizations remain competitive and employees are equipped with the skills necessary for success. This article explores the key takeaways in learning design from 2024 and provides insights into future trends.

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Top Learning Strategies That Drove Business Growth in 2024

Top Learning Strategies That Drove Business Growth in 2024

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In 2024, the link between robust Learning & Development (L&D) programs and business success became unmistakably clear. As companies sought to navigate shifting market landscapes and technological advances—generative AI, global wars, workers’ strikes, election seasons—those that placed a strategic emphasis on L&D reaped significant benefits.

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Learning Analytics for Continuous Optimization: How to Use Data to Improve Learning Design

Learning Analytics for Continuous Optimization: How to Use Data to Improve Learning Design

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Education has become increasingly digital, and learning analytics have followed suit. Whether using Blackboard or Moodle, learners leave their blueprint while interacting with course content and materials. Activity logs save this invaluable data that L&D professionals can use to inform their decision-making and course development. However, in the past, learning analytics often received backlash for prioritizing data analysis over the actual learning process.

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User Experience in Learning: How to Apply Design Thinking Principles for Learner-Centric Courses

User Experience in Learning: How to Apply Design Thinking Principles for Learner-Centric Courses

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The time learners spend interacting with the course is time they will never get back. As satiating as it is for an L&D professional to think that time is inherently well-spent, this is only true if those minutes were a good use of learners’ lives. Are these courses well-thought-out, engaging, and informative, and do they put learners at the center of their design? Do they represent the optimal use of learners’ time?

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Iterative Design Process: How to Embrace a Test-and-Learn Approach in Course Development

Iterative Design Process: How to Embrace a Test-and-Learn Approach in Course Development

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Traditional models, such as ADDIE and Dick and Carrey, and their core features are foundational in instructional design. However, newer approaches can address contemporary learning environments and technologies just as well. As changes are happening at a different speed in the 2020s, consider embracing them rather than waiting for the right moment. The best is always to start now

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Agile Project Management in Instructional Design: How to Streamline Processes for Efficiency and Innovation

Agile Project Management in Instructional Design: How to Streamline Processes for Efficiency and Innovation

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Instructional designers work within a fast-paced environment where technologies change at a stunning speed. The need to be able to adapt to transformations requires learning materials that can remain current and relevant. As a result, many started exploring the agile methodology, which has its roots in the software development industry. There, the agile approach had already proved successful in managing complex projects due to its flexibility, high quality, customer satisfaction, and risk mitigation.

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Emotional Design: How to Create Learning Experiences that Connect with Learners on a Deeper Level

Emotional Design: How to Create Learning Experiences that Connect with Learners on a Deeper Level

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As humans, we like to pride ourselves on basing our decision-making on probability and logic. But we’re far from computers and AI. We don’t always make the most rational decisions, nor can we explain why we’re drawn to people, things, and experiences that evoke intense emotions. This is because we’re highly emotional beings. In fact, humans base 90 percent of decisions on emotions and use logic to justify their actions to themselves and others.

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Mobile Learning: How to Leverage the Power of On-the-go Training

Mobile Learning: How to Leverage the Power of On-the-go Training

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Since smartphones overtook PCs and laptops in the early 2010s and became ubiquitous, most searches now occur on-the-go. Nearly 96 percent of the global digital population used a mobile device to connect to the internet in mid-2023. Mobiles are the go-to devices for shopping, looking for information, communicating, and even learning. According to Keystone Online Studies, around 50 percent of students used mobile devices to access course content and communicate with professors.

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