Learning Design To Support Organisational Sustainability

What You Need To Know About Designing Effective Learning Programmes To Improve Your Organisation's Sustainability

What you'll learn

Understand what environmental and social sustainability mean in your organisation.

Utilise systems thinking principles and tools to develop formal and informal learning programmes.

Identify what subjects you need to include in sustainability-focused learning programmes.

Plan how to design, deliver and support learning programmes that persuade people of the importance of sustainability.

Requirements

This course will be useful for people working in learning and development who are interested in designing programmes aimed at promoting organisational sustainability. It will also be of interest to sustainability professionals who wish to design their own training programmes.

Description
This course will help you to design effective learning programmes that will contribute to your organisation being more environmentally and socially sustainable. It is primarily aimed at human resource development professionals who are interested in developing learning in their organisations that will strengthen sustainable practice. It will also be of interest to sustainability professionals who need to design and deliver training as part of their professional activity.Learning about sustainability is completely different to learning about how to use a new computer system or how to sell a product or service. Sustainability is about values, what is important in the world to people, so if you want your learning programmes to make sure people are committed to sustainability, you need to address values. This course will show you how to do that.This course is a unique one-stop shop that explains the basic principles of what the sustainable organisation should do, how to look at this from a systems thinking perspective, how to use systems thinking to identify what content you need in learning programmes to address sustainability and how you can design, deliver and support formal and informal learning that supports organisational sustainability activities.I start the explanation of systems thinking from basic principles, so you do not need to have any prior knowledge about what systems thinking means. So you will learn how to draw simple diagrams to help you make sense of complex situations, and that will lead on to seeing how systems thinking tools can help you to identify subjects that need to be covered in sustainability-focused learning programmes.I will also explain some of the basics of social and economic sustainability, and show how the pressures for sustainability create drivers for organisations to become more sustainable. You will see how learning needs emerge from this process.The course is very practical. At the end of each section you are asked to complete an assignment where you will apply what you have learnt, so as you work through the course you will start to develop your own learning needs assessment. This means that by the time you complete the course you should have a plan for how to develop sustainability-focused learning programmes that are particularly important to you at this time.
Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Systems thinking in sustainability

Lecture 2 2.1: Basic principles of systems thinking in sustainability

Lecture 3 2.2: Diagramming in systems thinking

Lecture 4 2.3: Wicked problems and complexity

Lecture 5 Review of Section 2

Section 3: Basics of organisational sustainability

Lecture 6 3.1: Sustainability – The big picture

Lecture 7 3.2: Organisational sustainability

Lecture 8 3.3: Dimensions of organisational sustainability

Lecture 9 3.4: Review of organisational sustainability

Section 4: What to learn about organisational sustainability

Lecture 10 4.1: Competences and competencies

Lecture 11 4.2: Identifying competencies for organisational sustainability

Lecture 12 4.3: Review of what to learn

Section 5: How to make learning more effective

Lecture 13 5.1: Factors influencing learning

Lecture 14 5.2: Strengthening commitment to learning

Lecture 15 5.3: Pedagogies for learning

Lecture 16 5.4: Review of making learning more effective

Section 6: Finalising your learning programme

Lecture 17 6.1: Finalising the learning programme

This course will be useful for people working in learning and development who are interested in designing programmes aimed at promoting organisational sustainability. It will also be of interest to sustainability professionals who wish to design their own training programmes.