Coursera has partnered with Barbara Oakley, a distinguished professor of engineering at Oakland University and creator of some of the most popular courses on Coursera, to offer five science-backed recommendations to help build a more impactful, learner-centric L&D program.
When delivering L&D programs, too much focus is often placed on the content and teaching, rather than on the employees themselves. To upskill and reskill effectively, understanding how employees learn is important too. But even as L&D leaders strive to deliver programs that put employees at the forefront, they face multiple challenges.
First, most workplace learning happens in “flexi-chunks,” meaning when and where learning takes place varies significantly. Whether learning in a traditional office setup or on the go during a commute, meeting the needs of a mobile workforce is a real struggle.
Second, career development is no longer a linear proposition. Learning functions have to determine how to support their employees’ personal and professional growth over time as their employees’ careers shape up in new and different directions—horizontally and vertically.
We have partnered with Barbara Oakley, a distinguished professor of engineering at Oakland University and creator of some of the most popular courses on Coursera, to offer five science-backed recommendations to help build a more impactful, learner-centric L&D program.
You can download the recommendations from The Science of Learning: 5 Ways to Make Your L&D strategy More Successful e-Book. Here’s a quick overview:
Short-form content like Clips from Coursera are a great way to pique employee curiosity. Clips teach quick skills while nurturing the desire for more in-depth learning. They consist of more than 200,000 video lessons that deliver new skills in under 10 minutes.
“[Clips] are, I think, a great new format to help encourage what we know works well in learning,” says Oakley. “Clips can help encourage that little curiosity — those short bursts of learning often geared to help pique your curiosity.”
The science of learning provides several important insights on how to engage employees despite distractions and competing interests. Shifting to a learner-centric strategy can engage employees more actively — a win for the entire business.
Find out more about how to create a learner-centric L&D program by downloading our E-book: The Science of Learning: 5 Ways to Make Your L&D strategy More Successful.
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