Director of Learning Technology Steve Mahaley thinks about the Design Lab process in the May 2009 issue of CLO Magazine.
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Design Lab
Are you facing pressure to reduce budgets and travel? Trying to figure out which of your current programs to eliminate and which ones to keep? Looking to maximize value in the programs that are most important to you?
Design Lab is a collaborative and hands-on two-week process in which Duke CE works face-to-face with your learning professionals to help you arrive at new program designs that can be implemented immediately. Leveraging your own range of existing technology, these re-designed programs will help you do the most with what you have — significantly cutting costs, including tangible travel and instructor costs, and opportunity costs for participants — and effectively achieve learning outcomes. They will also connect participants more strongly with content, peers and both internal and external subject-matter experts in more relevant ways. Learning can be designed so that the timing of the delivery occurs closer to real-work business cycles. And all of this results in greater impact from your time and resource investment.
As part of this advisory service, Duke CE provides specialists to lead the process and provide expertise in stakeholder management, design methodology and learning technology. You bring to the table detailed descriptions of programs for redesign including learning outcomes, content focus, target populations, and budgets in order to identify the best candidates and enable the process. Together we create the kind of impact you're looking for at the price that is right.
Overhaul Your Program Design
Assess |
• Identify best opportunities for redesign |
Design |
• Review learning outcomes and existing designs |
Support |
• Develop stakeholder communication materials |



