Our ‘Circular’ Learning Methodology

Our ‘Circular’ Learning Methodology

As professionals, learners, and human beings, we change, grow, and evolve through our entire life. And as conscious citizens of the world, we try to conserve what we have and reduce waste by recycling, sharing, and reusing resources. Shouldn’t our learning experiences be designed to do the same? 

Like the economy, we believe that learning experience design needs to be circular, rather than a linear, one-time exercise. Our methodology, processes, and services are designed to achieve this goal.

Circular loops allow us to design experiences that are restorative and regenerative in nature so they can naturally adapt to evolving learning, business, and technology requirements.

Contextualized curation allows us to reuse and repurpose learning components and content from a variety of sources to build effective learning experiences, circumventing the need to create everything from scratch.

Sustainable development strategies allow us to create multidimensional and discrete microlearning components that can be used across multiple learning paths, roles, and even future iterations of the program.

Our consultative approach allows us to design experiences customized to your specific business needs, learner profiles, content sources, and technical environment.

Managed Instructional Design Services: 90-Hour Course Redesign

MANAGED INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SERVICES

Case study: 90-Hour Course Redesign

What might Managed Instructional Design Service engagements look like?

The Business Need

Our client, an online professional certification school operating in the US, approached us with a unique challenge: can you help us improve our students’ pass rates on the real estate licensing exam of a specific US state? 

The customer had an existing 90-hour pre-licensure program that was entirely audio-based online training. The immediate need was to redesign this training to a format that:

The Challenge for Learners

As we began consulting for the learning design, we built an understanding of our learners: who they were, what they were looking to achieve, and the challenges they were facing.

The Instructional Design Challenge

As with any business requirement, our learning design would need to do a balancing act between the learners’ needs, expected business outcomes, and the ever present restriction of budgets!

Our solution

Here’s what we proposed after the learning design consulting stage.

‘Audio-first’ strategy for the redesigned course

Lesson content was split across audio segments that were 2 - 5 minutes in duration.

Audio segments were supplemented with ‘summary infographics’.

All audio using AI voice recording software

We increased the number of questions within the course, which provided learners with extensive opportunities for practice.

How We Did It

And here’s how we went about executing this engagement.

1

After a detailed analysis of the business need and course content, we set up a dedicated team of Instructional Designers, led by a Senior ID responsible for planning work packages and overseeing execution of our strategy.

2

We developed a small prototype, which went through several iterations with the customer before we settled on the treatment that worked best for the audio strategy.

3

We then set up workstreams to manage development, internal reviews, and feedback incorporation of all deliverables to the customer: storyboards and course builds in the customer’s LCMS platform.

4

We developed the entire 90-hour program within a span of 5 months. We planned monthly work packages and shared reports that enabled our customer to track the team’s throughput and plan the go-live of their program.

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