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Instructional design and blended Learning to extend the reach of a research product for impact at scale:
Reflections from the FEAST tool
Iddo Dror (ILRI) and Emil Heidkamp (Sonata Learning)
FEAST e-Learning Materials Launch
Addis Ababa, 22 May 2015
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Instructional Design in the context of FEAST
• Alan just explained about FEAST and its evolution.
• This presentation explains how, from a Capacity Development perspective, such research products can be extended for much wider reach and hopefully impact.
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Why are you here today?
What is the primary reason for you being here today?
1.Feeds / the FEAST tool
2.Approaches and tools to scale up research
3.Instructional design
4.What?! This isn’t the session about chicken genetics?!
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Exposure to Instructional Design
Who here has…
1.Previously heard of instructional design
2.Worked with an instructional designer
3.Worked as an instructional designer
4.None of the above
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• An organization has a mission
• People working for / with organization must perform certain tasks to achieve it
• Sometimes individuals lack skills, knowledge or attitudes to effectively perform tasks
• Instructional designers apply systematic approach to helping learners acquire and retain new skills, knowledge and attitudes
What is Instructional Design?
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Instructional Designers
Q: Are IDs experts in the subject matter?
A: Not necessarily.
– Experts in how people acquire skills + knowledge, in the abstract
– Help subject matter experts translate broad expertise into a series of tightly focused, outcome-driven learning experiences.
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Instructional Designers
Q: Are IDs instructors?
A: Not necessarily.
– Coordinate with instructors, e-Learning developers and others to provide learners with the right content at the right time via the most appropriate channels.
– Create an overall strategy and plan for learning in context of organization’s mission-related goals and budget / time / infrastructure / logistical / cultural constraints
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Instructional Designers
An instructional designer works with subject matter experts, trainers and e-Learning developers to create:
• Logically sequenced curriculum that introduce skills and concepts in an accessible, step-by-step manner
• Activities that offer relevant practice
• Assessments that truly gauge learners’ mastery of subject
• Insightful, memorable anecdotes and case studies
• An engaging experience for learners delivered through the most appropriate methods / channels
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Instructional Design
“Instructional designers help translate EXPERTISEinto effective LEARNING EXPERIENCES”
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Instructional Design
• A pathway from research outputs to development
• Can be applied in a variety of contexts – not a ‘feed specific’ issue –and can help solve some of the ‘wicked problems’.
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ILRI CapDev role in the revised FEAST
• In 2014, the ILRI Capacity Development Unit was called on to develop such a new learning approach for FEAST.
• Worked closely with animal feed subject experts to review existing training materials and knowledge about the FEAST tool and the FCD process, some of it hardly documented.
• Classroom training events in various countries were observed and participant needs assessed. Based on the needs identified, a curriculum framework was generated.
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The Goal and Approach
• The goal was to improve the classroom experience and extend the reach of the training program while lessening the logistical burden on ILRI scientists.
• ToR developed and a instructional design firm contracted to help execute the work, as little instructional design capacity at ILRI at the time
• From the start, it was clear that a blended learning approach combining classroom training with online learning
• was the most appropriate solution.
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Class participants will learn to collect better data by:
• Applying proven techniques for leading productive focus group discussions
• Developing interview skills to gather more complete data from farmers
• Using the interview / discussion guides included in the FEAST Tool
Research Skills
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Participants will receive hands-on practice using the FEAST Data Template to:
• Track and analyze data collected from farmers
• Calculate key metrics for feed availability, animal nutrition, farmer income & economic factors
• Produce graphs to support findings & recommendations in reports
Computer & Data Analysis Skills
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Course features activities to help learners:
• Recognize good writing / well-organized reports
• Present findings with appropriate supporting data, graphs, etc.
• Clearly explain recommendations for livestock feed interventions and why they should work in local context
Report Writing Skills
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Instructional Design enabled the project to:
• Revise and expand classroom instruction
• Adapt course for online delivery
• Develop hands-on classroom and eLearning activities
• Design new FEAST forms and reference guides
• Work carried out in partnership with Sonata Learning,
a firm specialized in learning development.
Instructional Design Matters!
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Instructional design and appropriate learning technologies - outcomes
• Began with analyzing desired mission outcomes
• Aligned learning objectives with mission
• Redesigned classroom materials applying adult learning theory
• Over 400 slides, 12 lessons, standardized lesson plans / scripts
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Redesigned Forms & Job Aids
• Redesigned data collection forms to include tips for facilitators, recommended follow-up questions and overview of FEAST process for reference in the field
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Improved materials: Presentations, FGD guide and Questionnaire
Self-Guided e-Learning Course
• 12 lessons
• 60 videos (3+ hours)
• 5 interactive scenarios related to key skills
• Over 200 review and assessment questions– Multiple selection
– Drag / drop
– Hotspot
– Word bank
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Improved materials: Presentations, FGD guide and Questionnaire
Blended Experience
• Use of e-Learning in classroom
• Rich interactive activities
• Standard video presentationsfor software tutorials
• Computer-based assessmentsand results tracking
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Adult learning principles applied
• Identified the skills required for effective use of the FEAST toolkit.
• Met with typical course participants to conduct need assessment.
• Designed learning experiences which would help a course participant develop the skills required.
• Engaging course that is highly interactive.
• Connected with their existing knowledge and skill sets, meshed with perceived professional development needs.
• Based on relevant and practical examples.
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Learning Technologies
• Detailed & frustrating review of a fragmented LMS market – ended (happily) with a partnership with Sonata Learning.
• All ‘core LMS’ functionalities - plus:
• Simple, clean, intuitive user interface
• “Blended first” approach to delivery
• Integration of social learning
• Branding and sub-portals
• Ability to scale with the growth of ILRI programs
• A unique approach to grading
• Reporting features
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“e-Learning” “social learning” webinars
Homework Group WorkTraditionalClassroom Instruction
Job aids / reference guides
TeamworkMentoring / coaching /
apprenticeship
Self-Guided Instructor-LedCollaborative
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• Materials
–e-Learning content based on revised classroom materials,
• ILRI SME’s Ben Lukuyu, Alan Duncan, Iddo Dror
• Further refined based on feedback from Pakistan and Uganda sessions plus ID input from Deborah Wyburn
–12 lessons, 60 videos (3+ hours), 5 interactive activities and scenarios, 200+ assessment and review questions (drag and drop, multiple response, word bank, etc.)
e-Learning and FEAST
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• Instructors
–Provide extensive guides to instructors, both for general delivery and use of e-Learning elements in classroom
–Online instructor-led training largely moot (for now) due to bandwidth limitations in regions where ILRI operates
• Technology
–Where we departed from convention
e-Learning and FEAST
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Learning Management Systems
• Traditionally, organizations deliver online learning / e-Learning via a “Learning Management System”
• Specialized web application that
– Hosts e-Learning content
– Tracks learner progress / performance / deadlines
– Generates reports
• Integration with other systems (HR, student records, etc.)
– Manages learner access to content based on group membership, manual assignment by admin, completion of prerequisites
– Might include other features such as built-in quiz generator, integration with web conferencing
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Sonata LMS for ILRI
Online learning can be really great… if you’re online.
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The ‘offline’ challenge
Most of the regions where ILRI operates have less than 3% broadband / 3G+ connectivity (connections per capita).
In many cases less than 1%125%
74%
20%
International Telecommunications Union 2013 survey
0.2% 2.1%
0.7% 2.2%
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LMS on a stick – the Sonata offline playerA ‘game-changer’ for poor connectivity environments
• Portable e-Learning and Data Collection Apps
–Data collection utility
–Full e-Learning course
• Run from USB drive on any Microsoft Windows computer (XP or later), no installation required
• Every record (data collected, training results) stamped with a unique ID for upload to central website
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Sonata Offline e-Learning Player
“LMS On A Stick”
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That’s all folks!
Thank you for your attention!
For more info contact [email protected]
Web site ilri.org/feast
E-learning course: learning.ilri.org
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The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.
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