Importance of relevance when designing a learning program
The first entry for 2018! Hope this year brings greater success and accomplishments. In the first entry for this year i would like to talk about the importance of relevance of subject material when developing a learning program. One of my pet peeves when designing and developing a learning program is where the program manager comes in and says "looks good but I think we need to make it more robust". Now to be clear, I have nothing against making learning more robust per se and on some occasions I have realised that what I had developed needed to be made more robust. However, I have trouble with those occasions when the program manager or the SME (but mostly program manager) wants to pad things up so that they can justify the costs involved in developing the program. Relevant content is so important in ensuring that the learning is effective, despite this when it comes time to develop training programs certain stakeholders insist on putting irrelevant stuff in so that t