Session Focus: Global DEI learning journey combining on-the-job application, peer coaching, and experiential learning to improve business impact.
Cohort-based collaborative learning and coaching are the hottest topics in L&D right now
During the Covid-19 pandemic, collaborative learning and coaching are rising for many organizations.
Many ELE member companies share best and next practices validated with the Global L&D Trends Research presented at our May 2022 Exchange. Technology and semi-synchronous learning design help scale with cohorts ranging from 6-8 to more than 1,000.
By benchmarking with your peers, this seven-week series explains the basic concepts and principles for cohort-based learning at scale.
If you want to change a culture, you need to change the conversation. You need to change that conversation at scale.
For many of us, the journey starts with providing in-person classroom training (synchronous), e-learning (asynchronous), or blended learning.
An emerging next practice for designing cohort learning to scale is semi-synchronous collaborative peer learning.
Learning solutions become instructorless and easier to scale when well thought out and done right.
Wes Kao is a long-time believer in “cohort-based” learning programs. Cohort-based learning involves a group of students—a cohort—all moving through a syllabus together at the same time. Cohort-based learning is the opposite of asynchronous, mass online open courses, (MOOCs) where students move at their own pace through course content.
Kao said that cohort-based courses are far more engaging for learners than MOOCs, which have been criticized for low enrollment and completion rates. Over the past decade, cohort-based classes have risen in popularity, addressing common complaints about MOOCs.
Cohort-based classes offer live feedback from a teacher and courses with set start and end dates. In real-time, groups of students are able to hold each other accountable, push each other to experiment with class material, and challenge each other’s ideas.
1⃣ First, we will explore
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- How to cultivate a sense of safety and belonging
- Why you should put learners, not instructors, at the center of your learning experience
- How to accelerate knowledge sharing and peer facilitation
2⃣ Next, an ELE member company will share a global cohort-based DEI solution that combines peer learning, on-the-job application, group coaching, and experiential learning to improve business impact.
3⃣ A strategic transformation for many organizations is creating Learning 4.0 Mindset Shifts to help reinforce skills, facilitate feedback, increase collaboration, and share expertise across teams. Through a collaborative ecosystem of tech-savvy peer-to-peer and expert assessments, employees actively engage in the mastery of skill development.
We are interested in diving deeper into cohort-based learning solutions and finding success using some or all of the eight principles:
- Well-designed social interactions
- A sense of safety and belonging
- Real people engaging authentically
- Opportunities for individual reflection
- Knowledge sharing and peer facilitation
- Arguing (constructively) together
- Learners, not instructors, at the center
- Human stories expertly told
Pre-read: Cohort-Based Learning at Scale – Eight Principles for Success (Nomadic, 2022)
ELE Produces this Learning Circle: Designing Cohort Learning to Scale