This COMPLETE SESSION is by Power Hour and was designed for Learning at Work Week in 2018. This session on Shaping the Future is all about helping you to innovate for the future – whether in a small incremental way, or by making big steps forward. Whether or not we like it or not, the…
To aid your design and/or facilitation There’s absolutely no point in us re-inventing the wheel, so when we find a great website that has lots of useful resources in it, it seems sensible to capture it! Here are a few that are worth exploring. Liberating Structures A fantastic suite of engaging exercises that allow you…
Terry Pearce has designed a set of cards to help us to transform boring content into interactive exercises, but how do you get the most out of it? Well, there is useful information on his website, but there’s nothing quite like having a go, so that’s we did. And although we only scratched the surface…
Training design is part science and process, but it’s also part art and creativity. And there’s a lot we can learn from the song writing process from the Beatles.
Whether used as an ice-breaker, a metaphor (analogy?) or as a way to kick-start a problem-solving/creative thinking session. Rather than re-invent the wheel I thought I’d just share some useful links. 20 Lateral Thinking Puzzles Icebreakers – lateral thinking puzzles Some fun and more serious conundrums here Creative/Lateral thinking puzzles in categories
If you seem to lose HOURS looking for a decent short video to include in your training, and are (inevitably) disappointed with what you find, you’re going to LOVE TrainerTV. Clare Samuels gave us a sneak preview of her library of short work-based videos that are realistic and easy to facilitatee around in this showcase….
Terry Pearce unveils his Transform Deck of Training Design Cards and discusses how they can be used to create brand new activities, breathe new life into old content, help us to collaborate with other designers and even gamify our learning design. An incredibly versatile tool that can be used in so many ways!
If you’re looking for a virtual activity with a difference, this is it! Fun, physical and creative (and shamelessly stolen from Girl Guiding UK), this exercise can simply be used as an energiser throughout a longer session OR to lead into discussions around creativity, problem solving and (with a minor variation) working as a team….
Creativity has always been important in learning design – but we are looking at it with fresh eyes in their new virtual world. But what do we mean by creativity and why does it matter?
