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Do you have several hundred or thousand employees and spend millions of dollars on training? Do you create content daily that goes unmanaged and unmeasured? Then it’s time you invested in a Learning Architect!

What is a Learning Architect?

When constructing a home, it is common to seek the advice of a traditional architect. Initially, the architect works with the client to obtain a better understanding of the layout. With an eye on the big picture, they concentrate on the assignment’s obstacles and objectives. When drafting ideas, the architect collaborates with the client in an iterative and collaborative process. When the final design is selected, the architect acts as a liaison between the instructional design team, project managers, and the development team charged with constructing the learning experience.

The learning architect plays a similar role in learning and development and brings comparable skills to the table. Like a conventional architect, a learning architect possesses the necessary design know-how and is also a strategic partner committed to assisting the L&D leader in developing and executing a sound, cost-effective strategy. The learning architect is an outstanding problem solver with excellent consulting and project management abilities. They are an effective communicator with versatile and adaptable styles. Finally, they understand analytics and can view data that will serve as the basis for future ventures.

A learning architect will assist you in developing a clear vision with a set roadmap, putting together the learning resources, platforms, and material into a form that is easy to use, is scalable, and provides an exceptional learner experience.

Responsibilities of a Learning Architect

Learning Architects create interactions and influence or create environments that inspire the learners and encourage them to implement what they have learned. They employ learning factors that promote memory. Architects provide information repositories as well as prompting mechanisms such as job aids and performance support. They also strive to foster organizational cultures and work habits that promote learning. They encourage innovative thinking so that people may gain knowledge that they would not have otherwise. Finally, they develop learning-evaluation mechanisms that provide feedback to establish cycles of continuous improvement.

Roles of a Learning Architect

Their role is not just to create instructions but also to help people learn. It is their responsibility to help guide people to understand, create, cultivate, and facilitate content that facilitates the learning process.

Alchemist Learning Advisory Services

One of our primary goals with instructional design is to make learning more efficient, effective, and less complicated. Instructional design is a systematic design process based on learning theories, information technology, systematic analysis, educational research, and management methods. In addition, our instructional designers focus on improving human performance.

Our process is a combination of Agile and ADDIE. ADDIE is a systematic instructional design model. It originated in the US military and is the basis for all instructional design.

Our Goals of Curriculum Development

  • Make learning the focus.
  • Develop activities and educational tools that foster and facilitate interactivity.
  • Create learning resources that are intuitive and accessible to students.

Our Instructional Design in Practice

  • Design the courses and employ techniques that encourage student-centered learning.
  • Collaborate with online course designers to develop innovative instructional tools that allow students to learn in interactive and engaging learning communities.
  • Apply adult learning principles to create activities that help professionals update skills and knowledge.

How We Create Learning Environments

  • Create a curriculum based on proven adult learning concepts and instructional and learning models.
  • Develop activities and educational tools that facilitate and encourage interactivity and interaction.
  • Develop well-designed courses that engage learners are interesting, informative, inspiring, and memorable.

Our Learning Architects Have Six Essential Skill Sets.

  1. Knowledge of Instructional Design Models – A well-chosen instructional design model assists in setting the course and offers “guidelines for organizing relevant pedagogical scenarios to accomplish instructional goals”. Our architect can describe the stages and phases of the model in which they work and modify it to organize relevant instructional components and activities.
  2. Experience With Educational Technologies – While our learning architects are expected to concentrate on design (planning and developing materials), they also have hands-on experience with educational technologies. They may not be an “all-rounder” but they provide high-quality and successful instructional design services.
  3. Awareness of Copyright – Not only is a learning architect responsible for mapping current instructional resources to learning objectives, but they are also the gatekeepers that ensure the design is free of copyright violations. They are responsible for reviewing all materials obtained, preparing responses to copyright-related queries, and ensuring that all materials chosen are compliant.
  4. Training Need Analysis (TNA) – TNAs are the most significant type of analysis for instructional design since they help us determine whether training is required to resolve the issue at hand. We undertake needs assessments to determine what is causing a company’s poor performance. Once we have a firm grasp on the problem(s) at hand, we can design (or recommend) acceptable solutions.
  5. Ability to Conduct Research – Our learning architects also conduct research. We believe it allows them to be alert to the best learning solutions. It also allows them to lead education with more creative initiatives, such as incorporating AR and VR into teaching.
  6. Project Management – The Project Manager will be dedicated to ensuring the success of this project, which includes:
    1. Ensuring that both teams adhere to established procedures
    2. Notifying either team of delays and overages
    3. Keeping the project on track in terms of scope and timing
    4. Keeping both teams informed of project progress
    5. Maintaining open channels of contact between the teams
    6. Raising change requests as and when they emerge
    7. Raising invoices

To summarize, our architects are well-versed in instructional design models and learning theories that direct the design process. Through their previous experiences, they can transform brilliant ideas into reality. With their knowledge, they will create interactive, engaging learning experiences that capture learning goals, track learning outcomes, and track ROI.

Are you looking to do business differently?

The digital era is reshaping the way we learn and teach while also promoting educational technology advancements. Allow us to analyze your current situation and develop a comprehensive training plan to assist you in moving your company in the right direction.

We enjoy engaging with and partnering with other organizations that share our ideals and commitment to inspiring others to succeed. Please contact us if you are interested in working with us.