Welcome!
Hi beautiful people,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to visit this blog. I just started working last month as a Learning Design Executive and I'm learning some interesting things about my work, so, I'm like, "You know what? I better record the things I'm learning and share with other people to have more exposure on this area called Learning Design aka Instructional Design." That was my basic goal.
The bigger goal is the hope that one day, I can help building some solid learning environments in my country, Myanmar, since it is opening up like it never did before and reforming Education will be the biggest thing that matter to everyone in the country. And hopefully this blog plays a role in it by helping me record my thoughts and the interesting things I found working here in Singapore. My wish is that students in Myanmar will have a better learning environment than I did during my time. Well, that day will come. It has to :)
Right now
I'm still undergoing some training to become the real learning designer. So, I'm reading some books, doing some assignments in between, weekly discussions about the things I've learnt during the week (together with my new colleagues), presentations on the assignment and testing out some tools used in learning design, stuff like that. So, without further ado, I'm just gonna walk you through some basic things about my work and what my thoughts are on it. Please enjoy and hopefully you learn something along the way with me.
So, What's Learning Design aka Instructional Design?
So far, my understanding of the subject matter is that LD or ID is maximizing one's potential of learning with the help of technology in a more attractive, appealing and creative way. It can be any area; school education, military training, engineering, nursing, teacher training or even more commercial purposes like how to improve the customer service of your sales assistant. That's a very short description but it is very complicated in the detail stages when applying the theories and pedagogies there is to build the content and curriculum, etc., (I just learnt not long ago that pedagogy means teaching/instructional methods).
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| he's winning the customer service! |
One example and what really interested me to this job was when the interviewers (now my supervisor aka lady bosses) gave me a piece of assignment named "Excellent Customer Service Recovery" and asked me to read the text and design sort of a curriculum to help them improve the customer service of the sales assistant. At that time, I didn't really know what to do, but I just gave it a try and recommended to design an app similar to The SIMS and create a virtual environment for the sales assistants where they can interact with customers (normal, impatient, angry, etc.,) and try to score a sales transaction. Of course, there are many different ways to design the courseware but that's what I did and from then, I thought it's pretty interesting and want to learn more about it until I become a professional in this area.
To be continued ....
I hope you get a rough idea on what I am supposed to do now :P I'm also still learning to improve my blog design so if you have any suggestions on like cool things, please leave a comment. And also if you have any questions about the posts or my working life, I'd be more than willing to answer :)
In the next blog post, I'll show you through one of the books we were assigned to read "How People Learn".
Thanks for reading this far and hope you visit again!
