L&D Article Review #28

I don't like boring trainings 😴 That might seem obvious, but what might be less so is What makes a training boring? If I had to rank the answers, I would put inconsequential or irrelevant content at the top of my list. This is my 30 L&D articles in 30 days challenge! (Link to the article down below)

Article #28: Think Backward Design Won't Work in Corporate Settings? Think Again. - By Cassandra Naji

How long it took to read? - 15 minutes

Who is it for? - Those who want to learn more about backward design and make the shift in one's workplace.

What I took from this article - This is the second of Naji's articles I've covered in this challenge and let me say, I love their writing! This article has it all: A history and definition of backward design, a step by step process with examples, a "challenges you might run into" list, and templates to use for your own work. But enough gushing, let's talk about the material within.

The concept of filling a learner's head full of information (like filling a bucket) has been seen as poor instruction for over a hundred years. Yet, we still do it with forward design and instructor-centric courses. It's often easier to slap a patch on a problem and cover the information over and over again than to stop and consider why the problem is occurring in the first place. Naji highlights the importance of goal-focused instruction and measures to prove a training's effectiveness. While it might be a difficult buy-in for some corporations, I think many are embracing backward design for the long-term ROI. Naji ends the article with one of my favorite headlines: "To move learning forward, Design backward".

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