Focus Magazine - Winter 2015 - (Page 11)
GUEST EDITOR
William Magagna
Mastering Connections
of the Construct
Start with this
question: How do
our learners connect
to answer, solve,
create and grow?
I
n my article in the Spring 2014 issue of
Focus, I proposed that medical &
diagnostics devices (MD&D) learning
organizations build a vision around constructs
not curriculums. As a prerequisite to this
challenge, for me the key consideration is to
grasp the vast potential of the smart distributed
system we all know as the Internet. Certainly a
study of the technology, as well as its potential
to store, trace, distribute, synthesize, etc., are all
essential. However, it is the ability of this
construct to connect, and the changing human
behavior in that paradigm, that I believe
triggers the entire vision.
e Internet as a learning construct
continues to evolve. As a result, the way our
customers and employees access information,
create new knowledge and improve
performance happens in ways, and at a speed,
not possible just a few years ago.
e traditional knowledge transfer model of
curriculums, from my observations, was not
well-positioned to leverage this virtual
evolution and, as a result, has been le behind.
Instead, human behavior, within the evolving
paradigm, has formulated its own solution
without premeditation, and it all starts with
how we create the connections. Performance
growth is uniquely inseparable from the
technology with which it is integrated, and for
me, is the epitome of informal learning.
Start with this question: How do our
learners connect to answer, solve, create and
grow? More specifically, how does the
connection begin? Learners today have in
their constant possession the tools to connect
to more information, media and people, than
can ever be used over a lifetime. How do you
position your construct to be there ready to
leverage that behavior and create the smartest
connection possible? Answer this, and you
have a road map for creating your virtual
construct that can integrate into your overall
learning strategy.
e scenario across MD&D is very similar:
A healthcare practitioner is tasked with the
operation, optimization, maintenance or
troubleshooting of a device. How will you
create a three-to-five second connection? e
most obvious would be virtual search, more
specifically, text, voice, optical and social.
However, much more powerful, covert and far
less leveraged or understood is meta data.
Clients may stumble into your formalized
virtual curriculum, perhaps they may not, or
worse yet, may not want to. ese tools have
become so powerfully integrated into the
construct, while at the same time leveraging
and changing human behavior, that combined
they blanket the virtual construct and
everything that happens within.
I always stress with my team, "If we are
unable to be there to create that connection,
someone else certainly will." We don't
completely control how our customers behave
to answer, solve, create and grow. As a result
we must innovate our solutions, starting with
understanding the connection of people to
technology, content and each other. If not, we
risk being le behind.
Looking ahead, perhaps the challenge for the
future of creative and innovative instructional
design is linking your connections to the
informal, back to the "new formal," and in
doing so we may come full circle and redefine
what a curriculum of the future could be. ■
William Magagna is the head of global product education for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. Email Bill at
william.magagna@siemens.com.
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