{"id":8973,"date":"2010-09-01T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2010-09-01T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T14:17:42","slug":"in-search-of-pioneering-learning-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/09\/01\/in-search-of-pioneering-learning-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of pioneering learning architects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clive-shepherd.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/in-search-of-pioneering-learning.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>In search of pioneering learning architects<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; Clive Sheperd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the learning architect<\/strong><br \/>\nA learning architect designs  environments for learning. Like the architect who designs buildings, the  learning architect will be responding to a specific brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What  is the nature of the learning requirement? What knowledge, skills and  attitudes is the employer (the client) wishing to engender in the  employees working within the business, division or department in  question? How will this learning contribute to effective performance?<\/li>\n<li>What jobs are carried out in the target area? How many people  are doing these jobs? What are these people like in terms of their  demographics, prior learning, ability to learn independently, their  motivation and preferences?<\/li>\n<li>Under what constraints must this  learning take place? How geographically dispersed is the population?  How much time and money is available? What equipment and facilities can  be deployed to support the learning?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The learning  architect also has a professional responsibility to their client. This  requires them to be fully conversant with current thinking in terms of  learning methods, acquainted with the latest learning media and  up-to-date with developments in the science of learning. As none of  these is intuitive and obvious, the client cannot be expected to have  this expertise. And for this reason, it is neither sufficient nor  excusable for the learning architect to act as order taker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The learning architect does not need to directly facilitate learning or  be present in all those situations in which learning might be taking  place. However, they must know whether or not the learning that is  occurring is in line with their plans and their client\u2019s requirements,  and that all this is happening at an acceptable speed and cost. And  because the only constant in the modern workplace is change, they must  be agile enough to respond to shifting requirements, new pressures and  emerging opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\nI like this metaphor&#8230;it reminds me of a graphic that I developed a while back:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-977\" href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/05\/in-the-future-which-items-will-be-our-heavy-lifters\/which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-977\" title=\"which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters1.jpg\" alt=\"which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters\" width=\"626\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters1.jpg 626w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/which-ones-will-be-our-heavy-lifters1-146x150.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In search of pioneering learning architects &#8212; Clive Sheperd Meet the learning architect A learning architect designs environments for learning. Like the architect who designs buildings, the learning architect will be responding to a specific brief: What is the nature of the learning requirement? What knowledge, skills and attitudes is the employer (the client) wishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,200,119,7,118],"tags":[128,629,569,120,717],"class_list":["post-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-instructional-design","category-learning-ecosystem","category-training-corporate-universities","tag-corporate-training-universities","tag-instructional-design","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-training","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}