Designing for Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM

I love this book. As in this book, we need more viewpoints in the learning and development world to take an engineering mindset. Lisa and Crystal have applied this model, as the text contains practical examples and case studies. It integrates design thinking, encourages understanding your learning audience, and designing multi-faceted learning solutions that fit your audience's needs. It illustrates how to use marketing techniques to meet your learners and stakeholders' needs and not fall victim to organizational politics.What I like most about the book is that it gives you a holistic approach to design and lays out a plan to get organizational support and build relationships and trust with your stakeholders.This book should be in every learning practitioner's library.

A very practical and approachable book to address the sea change happening as organizations ask more of their learning and development function to participate in developing performance. The proposed OK-LCD (Owens-Kakadia Learning Cluster Design) model is meant to help L&D professionals reorient their practice to the demands and realities of skill development for organizational capability.What makes the book so practical and approachable is (1) the running examples of showing principles in action; (2) the contextualization of what's changed, and why practice needs to change; (3) very practical worksheets and guides to help practice the principles; and (4) reference to current practices, frameworks, models to help orient to help connect and evolve one's current way of working in developing performance through learning experiences.As a very practical book, it sometimes does not focus on the research or the evidence supporting the underlying concepts -- and, for some, that may be a bit off-putting. Of course, Lisa Owens' long years of successfully putting principles into action should help overcome what would otherwise be seen as healthy skepticism.It's definitely worth having on one's shelf and being able to reference it. It's also quite a decent place to start for those looking to make a transition into developing performance through practice and reinforcement.

The old way of designing and delivering training has long been badly broken and in need of a complete overhaul, but no one in the industry ever wanted to rock the boat, raise a red flag, or point out that the L&D emperors had no clothes. So, thank you to Crystal Kadakia and Lisa M.D. Owens (as well as ATD) for introducing us to a new way of thinking about and creating more effective learning and development initiatives. While backed by research, "Designing for Modern Learning" is is not a textbook -- but a guidebook...and a handy, timely, and welcome one that will equip, enable, and encourage readers to shift their mindset, acquire a new tool set, and develop a much-needed new skill set. Lastly, not only is this book filled with tons of valuable content, but its aesthetically pleasing and highly effective visual design makes it not only an interesting and engaging read...but a must-read for anyone and everyone in the L&D industry.

Designing modern learning experiences is essential to upskilling and reskilling our workforce.In my Marketing role, we target and engage with our consumers along their path to purchase. We put the consumer at the center of our marketing campaigns:Who are they?What do they need?How do they shop and why?How can we reach them throughout their purchase journey?How do we tie program success to Purchase?The same is necessary for our L&D campaigns.Yet, we continue to execute a one-size-fits-all approach focused on 1x formal learning events and prioritize what we want them to KNOW vs. what they need to DO on the job.But times are a-changin'!If you are in L&D, this model is an excellent evolution of ADDIE and SAM. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is a simple yet impactful model to up-level your Learning programs by designing for the modern learner.

This work is both in-depth and an easy read - a tough feat made possible through the repeated use of effective visuals, chunked learning, and concrete applications and examples. The Owens-Kadakia Learning Cluster Design (OK-LCD) model takes a wholistic approach to workplace learning, considering not just the who and what but the where, why, and how of learning at work - bridging the gap between building new knowledge and skills and producing measurable business outcomes.

This book is such a breath of fresh air! I was told it would be "the only L&D book you will ever need" and I can see why. It is very readable, with lots of great insight into looking at L&D in a new way to be more learner-centered and to keep up with the changes in learners and learning that we are seeing in 2022. I haven't even finished it yet and it has me seeing L&D in a whole new way. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone in L&D, whether you're new to it or have been doing it for years!