Bring your training and get help blendering it! Learn three skills you can apply as soon as you go back to work. You've probably heard of Blended Learning and Micro Learning, or any of the many other terms. We'll quickly cover a job aide on the steps to successfully take an existing online or in-person training and transform it into blended learning. After reviewing a case study, we'll break into working groups and practice converting a training into a blended solution. You may wonder the other promised skills we alluded above. Attend the session and find out!
Setup:
Bring up Countdown Timer
Play two minutes before starting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BFtrB-qdI
Bruce will start things off
Welcome
Thanks for attending Blender Your Learning.
We’re from the Emerging Technologies Division of Dell Technologies
We’ll be talking about, and practicing, blended learning. We don’t have time to go into great depth, but you will leave with a good understanding of Blended Learning, and have practiced blending an existing training. We’ll also use at least four learning methodologies today, too. See if you can pick them out.
Let’s get this show on the road!
BRUCE AND DAN:
We interview each other LS: Celebrity Interview
DAN: Questions for Bruce:
What qualifies you to be the Ninja/BlendTec blender expert?
((This will lead into the case study…but we’re getting ahead of ourselves))
Rescue dogs, how have you used it?
Facebook LiveStream
Questions for Dan
- Why did you want to do this (presentation)? For fame? For money? For two days away from work/your boss?
Have you used BL to create a learning legacy?
What words or phrases would you use to describe your understanding of what blended learning is?
The initial definition of blended learning was to mix learning methodologies between a classic classroom instruction and an online offerings that the student had control over.
Today the definition has changed to be much more open and flexible in part because of the available technology and in part because of what the industry has discovered about the science of learning.
My father was an Air Force fighter pilot flying the F-104 Starfighter when he became an advisor to Vietnamese pilots and was sent to Vietnam
As I tell you this story look for elements of successful instructional design and blended learning
Before every flight pilots meet in a pre-briefing. In that briefing the following happens:
The mission (real or training) objectives were clearly given
The mission leaders were assigned
A pilot would be called on to verbatim quote one of the red emergency procedures
A commander would present a short safety briefing usually based on an analysis report from the safety team
On the occasion of this story the safety briefing was about what actions to take if your ammunition box in one of your wings was hit causing it to explode a hole in your wing. Not only were the step by steps instructions laid out but also the reasons for each step was also explained.
As luck would have it that is exactly what happened to my father. His right wing was hit. He automatically took the measures he had been taught of which the most important was to make steering adjustments to account for the tremendous drag caused by the ever increasing hole in his right wing. He flew in a left circling pattern trying to line up to land in a rice patty. As he got close to landing he had to level out the plane which meant his right wing immediately began to dip. If he did not take corrective action the wing tip could catch and cause him to cartwheel across the patty. At the last second somewhere in his training he knew to increase the engine speed that provided enough power to level his plan just before impact.
You can see that he slide quite a ways before coming to a standstill.
It was wet and slippery
Remember what his plane looked like before take off? Now it looks like the Trix cereal rabbit!
This was the condition of his plane once airlifted back to the base
You can see by the size of the hole that he had a serious drag to his plane
After every mission there was always a debriefing. What went right, what did not and what could be improved. This discussion was among the pilots sharing with each other their experiences and knowledge. They also were told by the observers if they accomplished the mission providing important feedback.
Fortunately for my father was part of a comprehensive systematic approach to training that allowed him to live another day.
What elements of instructional design and blended learning did you recognize in this story?
DAN
Individualized, customized training:
Not everyone comes with the same education, experience, entry skills, motivation to learn or learns the same way.
Allow for customized approaches to learning instead of one size fits all
Self paced, control over time, place, path and pace
Example: A pre class online video that the student can take at their own pace that prepares them for the next days class
Enhanced, Engaged Learning:
Create learning activities that mirror their learning or performance environment
Add activities such as role playing, or gamification, etc.
Meaningful:
relevant, focused on transfer of learning into real world scenarios
More opportunities for learners to apply what they have learned
Learning flexibility
Self paced, any time, any place
Not all students do well in a rigid structured learning environment
Scalable
reaching the many who are often across the globe
Improved feedback
Feedback is sometimes referred to as knowledge of results.
Improved Assessments, performance observations, instant feedback in online courses, etc. Hard to give individualized feedback in a classroom.
Dan
70/20/10- The 70/20/10 model for learning and development originally accredited to Morgan McCall at the Center for Creative Leadership established that:
70% of learning is a result of experience whether that is in the form of challenging on the job experiences or attending hands on workshop or turning in performance assessments, the focus is on doing.
According to the study 20% of our learning is about our relationships with others. That could be in the form of coaching, mentoring, observing our peers behavior, being motivated by others or just “hallway discussions”.
The final piece is the 10% which is near and dear to us all- formal coursework and training. In this model I find that I am using the 10% primarily for elearning, establishing a theory foundation for later learning development. An example is I am currently enrolled in a Master’s program that only has approx. 16% in elearning that results is only 2 objective assessments. The remainder is all challenging performance objectives based on the foundational courses.
Blended Learning can insure that the learner is getting the right mix of all three that a traditional one size fits all approach cannot do.
Individualized-
Not everyone comes with the same education, experience, entry skills, motivation to learn or learns the same way.
Allow for customized approaches to learning instead of one size fits all
Self paced, control over time, place, path and pace
Memory Retention-
It is common knowledge that about 70% of what we learn in an instructor led class is lost within 24 hours. Most of you will forget my name by tomorrow morning or sooner! Multiple learning events of mixed modality can help to cement that learning into long term memory.
BRUCE
Back when there was SDE and SDET, Microsoft hired between 10 and 50 testers a week
Monthly one week class covering everything a tester needed to know.
Twelve major automation systems in use. Paid attention to the one used by your team, slept the rest of the time
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I took it over and applied good L&D principles. What did they NEED to know, vs what would be nice for them to know
What could be taught online versus what is best learned or practiced in person
BRUCE
The final class was transformed into this:
I personally handed a welcome letter to the new hire on day one at NEO (and a soft copy was emailed). First touch point was in person.
SDET resources vs general resources
BRUCE
About two hours of interactive online learning that taught the basics of testing such as how to develop your tests, how to enter a bug, and so on. It included video interviews of testers explaining what their day-to-day life was like.
BRUCE
The Test eLearning video was unique and varied week-to-week based on the testing skills needed to test that week’s product.
BRUCE
It also had a custom Microsoft Office Mix, a PowerPoint add-in, interactive training covering the specific testing skills they would need to test a product the next day in class.
Before class, I reviewed the knowledge check results to make sure the concepts were clear. If not, we would go over them at the start of class.
BRUCE
Class was then spent testing an actual product that needed testing resources. The new hire testers, on day three of their employment, practiced a real-life project from end to tend: breaking into teams, coordinating testing with the other teams, outlining their testing, running their tests, and entering bugs.
After lunch the product owner reviewed the bugs in class, commented on how they rocked and how they could be improved. Of course prizes were given out for the bet bugs.
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BRUCE
What was the measurable results of converting the new hire training to blended?
Easier to deliver for our distributed teams in other countries and time zones
New hire testers were now productive and "earning their keep" on day three of their employment, versus two weeks to two months depending on their product teams.
Product teams lined up to have free testing of their products done by a new set of tester eyes.
NSAT rose from an average of 3.7 to 4.5 (on a 5.0 scale)
Decreased time to first promotion for new employees by 9%
Decreased attrition by 5%
BRUCE
* About 2/3 of school districts now offer some form of blended learning (U.S. Department of Education)
BRUCE
* Ohio State University Flipped Class Conference
BRUCE
BRUCE
Dan facilitates Git Project as example
Bruce will hand out job aide
Establish the performance goal
What will the learner be able to do as a result of the instruction
Example: The engineer will be able to develop code on their local branch that is later pushed to github for review or the engineer will be able to resolve code conflicts using the rebase command
Analysis of the learners and context
Entry skills and scale of experience/proficiency
Context or environment that the learner performs in
Example: Engineer’s experience and knowledge of git ranged from total novices to absolute experts. The context was they would be using git in their everyday work and is an essential tool they must master to be successful in their jobs. Another requirement would be to know how to use git in the Isilon workflow
Learning resources
What instructional tools and resources are available
Example: Did they have access to a learning management system, did we have lab laptops that were also configured to remotely connect? Did we have a learning facility that allows for connectivity, right size, screen, etc. Did we have SMEs and other learning resources?
Best Activities:
What combination of training events/activities will best simulate the real-world application and facilitate reaching the performance goal?
Example: Online course to level set, workflow instructions for everyone, wiki page for reference, workshop to cement skills
Learner feedback
assessments, mastery verification, observation and feedback,
Example: practicing in a workshop with scenarios arriving at the correct outcome,
Follow-through
is a review of the entire strategy to determine whether learner memory and transfer needs have been addressed. Training refreshers (2 week, 2 month, etc.)
Example: Post assessments, mini workshops, measurement of performance. Surveys, questionaires
Since git was an everyday skill the learners were applying what they learned. The follow up needed to be asking the engineers how confident they were and was additional training needed.
Bruce
Bruce / Dan will float around the room helping as needed
In groups, work together and design an impactful blended learning solution.
Write it down on the flip chart by your table.
Include the Pros and Cons of your solution.
Oh, and pick a speaker to share your team’s results with all of us.
Bruce will facilitate / Dan will capture data
Bruce
Roll the die to pick the winning table.
Bruce facilitate / Dan hand out puzzle pieces, then write learning methodologies on flip charts
Hand out Puzzle pieces. Write on them one thing you learned today that you are going to take back to work? This learning is just one piece, one tool, of your L&D tool box.
What were the (four) learning methodologies used today
Liberating Structure: Celebrity Interview in the opening
Directed Instruction (ILT)
Collaborative/peer learning: When you worked together to blend the learning
Job Aide (hand out)
Bruce / Dan
That’s it! Thanks for attending. Dan and I will be hanging around in case you have any questions or feedback.