Hey Juliet, wanna be in my team?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Err, yes, obviously. I’m no stranger to my need to be included, so this question rarely results in a negative response (unless it is to join a team of jellied eel eaters, or a team of lift testers, shiver).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
So when I was asked if I wanted to join a team of colleagues going through an online learning programme about Human Centred Design, I couldn’t say no. The trouble with being someone who is passionate about developing others is that I too am constantly wanting to learn shiny new stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This course was a free online programme over 9 weeks, whereby you were expected to read course content every week, then regularly meet with your course team to discuss the learning and apply it to a project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course the day job gets in the way and I found I was rarely able to complete the self directed part of the programme. Or at least, I wasn’t sufficiently motivated to make it a priority in my week – which is actually something quite different, and an issue I discuss with colleagues across the university frequently!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The joint discussions however were a different thing. A brilliant collection of minds, enthused about the topic, sparking off the each other and ably guided and facilitated by one of the group who was already familiar with the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Applying our learning to a project (albeit one created for this purpose) completely transformed my understanding of the content of the programme. This was blended learning at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The course drew to a conclusion and to receive the completion certificate you needed to write a short assignment about your project and its outputs. Suddenly I was back alone with my learning; and I am ashamed to say I never did it. That certificate will never grace my wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, actually, am I “ashamed”? Not really. My learning was none the less for not having submitted; it happened iteratively across the weeks, and most specifically through the group discussions and in the application to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a wonderful insight into my own preferences for, and strengths in, learning. On this occasion it didn’t matter to me whether I got the piece of paper or not. For others in the group that was important, and they were motivated to complete the assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Understanding your own drivers for learning is key. As is not assuming that others will feel the same. It’s easy to pull together a group of colleagues to learn jointly. Give it a go and see if that’s your thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch out for my next blog that will explore the content of the Human Centred Design programme that I was completing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Juliet Flynn, Organisational and People Development<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Juliet, wanna be in my team? Err, yes, obviously. I’m no stranger to my need to be included, so this question rarely results in a negative response (unless it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136217,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[222,226,229],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","tag-blended-learning","tag-human-centered-design","tag-motivation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Juliet Flynn","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2019\/12\/book-4600757_1920.jpg","postExcerpt":"Hey Juliet, wanna be in my team? Err, yes, obviously. I’m no stranger to my need to be included, so this question rarely results in a negative response (unless it […]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}