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Designing For Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM

Published by ATD, this book describes the fundamental shift that has occurred in the nature of L&D’s role as a result of the digital revolution and introduces our new five-step model: the Owens-Kadakia Learning Cluster Design Model (OK-LCD Model).

In each chapter, the authors share stories of business leaders, L&D professionals, and learners who have successfully adopted the OK-LCD Model, detailing how they altered organizational mindsets to meet the needs of modern learners and their organizations.

The Five L&D Actions Explained
A Continuous L&D Story from Multiple Perspectives
“In Practice” – Real Stories from Real Organizations
A Start-to-Finish Implementation Example
The Future of L&D with OK-LCD

What Readers Are Saying

This book should be in every learning practitioner’s library.

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.

“The OK-LCD model is exactly what I need – a simple, comprehensive, research-based compass to help my team navigate the complexity we are currently facing in learning design. In today’s remote-first working environment, we have loads of programs to redesign and even more to build. “Design for Modern Learning” aligns us all to a fresh, simple framework and a new, much-needed language so we can move swiftly and confidently. Instead of continuing to talk about how things need to change on many, many fronts, this book will enable my team to move into action!”

Designing for the Modern Learner is a must-read for any learning professionals that have noticed their budgets and team sizes shrinking, while the workloads and the need to fills skills & knowledge gaps are still ever-increasing.

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 has me seeing L&D in a whole new way.

We are currently working on a new book

“The CLO Playbook for Modernizing Learning” will be a sequel that shares how to embed LCD models into organizations at a systems level, based on real life implementations to change TD’s role in our emerging AI-powered work world.
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