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These days we’re a little better informed about what constitutes learning.

It’s become clear that learning is about action and behaviours, not about how much information you hold in your head.

Knowing something doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve learned it.

Dr Ebbinghaus’ experiment revealed we suffer an exponential ‘forgetting curve’ and that about 50% of context-free information is lost in the first hour after acquisition if there is no opportunity to reinforce it with practice.

I’ve only learned

when I can use the CRM system without constantly asking for help or referring to some documentation.

Experience and practice are two of the main ways we change our behaviours and learn.

If experience and practice, rather than knowledge acquisition and content, are the drivers of the learning process, what do Instructional Designers need to do to be effective?

The need to become Interactivity Designers. That’s what they need to do.

learning experience design

I find both Clark’s learning experience designer and also the term interactivity designer helpful because they move us beyond instruction to where the real meat of learning is, to actions and interactions, experiences and conversations.

We need designers who understand that learning comes from experience, practice, conversations and reflection

Designers need to get off the content bus and start thinking about, using, designing and exploiting learning environments full of experiences and interactivity.

As they do this they’ll realise that most of the experiences and interactivity they can draw on will occur outside formal learning environments.

How can the ID can also be a pedagogical consultant, although the client is still in 20st century teaching paradigm?

Instruction doesn't mean transferring content, it means teaching. And that includes learning experiences and interactivity as well as content transfer.

Interactivity is not the only requirement to reaching the end state of learning actions and knowledge in order to perform accurately

Building confidence and sustaining the motivation to change doesn't necessarily require interaction but does need persuasive language and appropriate use of media as well as connection and access to others

Designers also need to prepare people to learn and to practice and apply new knowledge and behaviours.

how to bring the experiences to your instructional design