Today, i gonna share my second assignment with you. That’s what kept my busy within the last week. The original assignment Text:
Write a description that tells a story of a real or hypothetical educational challenge or problem scenario. You can research and describe a real learning/training challenge facing a school or organization, or you can make one up of your own. Describe the learners, the learning needs, the ecosystem, infrastructure and resource factors that influence implementation, and any existing learning program (if applicable).
Implementing “The Change” to a Business Academy
A real life project, anonymized
A company, supporting institution for major corporations in Germany, want to change the way, they carry out training, basic/advanced education and consulting.
Organigram of the Company
Existing Learning environment
There are 25 trainers and 20 consultants, located all over Germany, supported by a internal organization. They are delivering over 1500 trainings, information- and consulting-events per year, mostly 2-5 days in hotels.
Trainers and Consultants spread all over Germany
On the Road again, everyone is travelling
Training Topics (examples in brackets)
- Technology (different fields/depth of knowledge)
- Maintenance (Handling dangerous goods)
- Engineering (basics of residual light amplifiers)
- Technicians (Indentify and repair a fuel injector)
- Sales (Better sales in difficult times)
- Management (Communicating crisis)
- Safety and accident protection (Handling dangerous goods)
Students
Students, Trainees, Audience
All are equipped with smartphones or similar, notebooks or desktop pcs, stable internet connections.
Existing Trainings
- Face to Face events
- Printed training documentations
Challenge
Facing descending budgets, descreasing demand for the offered trainings and seminars, they are searching for alternative ways to reduce the immense financial efforts and time-consumption for travel, not even for the employees but also for their customers. Acquiring new audiences was not the last concern. The vision for a need to change education into something, fitting into 21st century learning environments is unclear.
Discovered obstacles
- Deminishing participants
- Unclear vision about the needed change towards a 21st century learning environment
- Inconsistent technical infrastructure at the company
Internal problems
Internal Problems Discovered
Conclusion
Based on a existing project, started in 2010, there is still not everything done. In my opinion, there are some similarities with projects in poorly developed countries. In fact, for many of the problems, strategies and procedures as show in the “HCD Toolkit”, help us solving many problems.
