Lisa Owens - Designing for Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM

Kadakia and Owens masterfully adapt the best of existing training models into their new road map for modern workplace learning. Every training professional should follow their guidance to integrate learning into the business and focus on job performance.

Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick, Co-Authors, Kirkpatricks Four Levels of Training Evaluation

This book should be on every L&D professionals shelf. Kadakia and Owens offer a clear vision for the future of learning with a balance between the big picture and how to apply the ideas to programs of all sizes.

Zach Rubin, Co-Founder and CEO, Professional Book Club Guru

Kadakia and Owens offer a practical model based on thoughtful analysis of our modern learners reality. A must-read for the L&D professional tasked with creating engaging content, driving meaningful change, and measuring the results of behavioral transformation that can only come from true learning.

Grace Amos, Talent Development, Cisco

This is a thought-provoking and practical resource that should help learning leaders and instructional designers alike. Full of fresh ideas and a new model that will help us effectively leverage new technology and multiple learning assets to serve todays modern learners.

Jay Rhodes, Former Senior Director, Global Learning and Development, BCD Travel

This book brings a much-needed update to models that havent evolved with todays workplace. OK-LCD addresses the social learning component and scales to include learning technology that hasnt even been invented.

Rich Hazeltine, CPTD, RichIntegration.com, former Head of Tech Talent Development, Zappos.com

This book is the perfect blend of learning theory and practical tools for L&D professionals. It sparks curiosity and creativity for our fieldin short, shaping us into modern learners too.

Chris Eversole, Assistant Vice President, Talent Management, Ohio National Financial Services

Our world has changed. Learning models that worked in the past have limited relevance in our dynamic and constantly changing world. Kadakia and Owens deliver a powerful learning model that responds to work conditions that are continually evolving.

David Richard Moore, PhD, Professor, Innovative Learning Design & Technology, Ohio University

The Owens-Kadakia Learning Cluster Design model takes the best elements of many frameworks and theories and blends them to provide a learner-centric, performance road map for creating authentic learning experiences. If you are looking to take your talent and development strategy to the next level, this book will help guide you from one-and-done learning to a providing a full pathway of learning experiences for your training population.

Cara North, Senior Learning Experience Designer, Ohio State University

Sometimes the most simple concepts are the ones we overlook. Designing for Modern Learning does an excellent job of viewing learning through the lens of the customer or learner in a way that we typically see in marketing but have yet to adopt for L&D in the multifaceted, complex way this book describes. It does a great job combining theory with practical steps and applications for the modern L&D professional to implement right away!

Alex Bowden, Recruiter Academy Certified Recruiter, PEOPLEfirst, Talent & Retention Consulting

Designing for Modern Learning provides a useful primer for adapting your learning strategy to the digital age. Kadakia and Owens provide a concise, practical reference to guide you through the process of modernizing your learning design and development.

Brandon Carson, Author, Learning in the Age of Immediacy

Whether you are new to the L&D function or need to understand and examine the business from a more senior perspective, this book provides insightful, relevant, and thought-provoking content. By engaging both with individual learner differences and the need to become business savvy, Designing for Modern Learning will certainly support L&D professionals as they grow their careers and continue exploring how the L&D world shifts in this new skills economy. The authors flexibility in thought mixed with a strategic energy will be an asset as we continue driving the discussion around the evolution of L&D.

Jeff Miller, AVP, Learning & Organizational Effectiveness, Cornerstone OnDemand

The OK-LCD model is exactly what I needa simple, comprehensive, research-based compass to help my team navigate the complexity we are currently facing in learning design. In todays remote-first working environment, we have loads of programs to redesign and even more to build. Designing for Modern Learning aligns us all to a fresh, simple framework and a new, much-needed language so we can move swiftly and confidently. Instead of continuing to talk about how things need to change, this book will enable my team to move into action!

Molly Brown Pickett, Head, Learning Experiences, Facebook

Has there ever been a moment in history when continuous learning was so necessary? Our changing world requires all working people to update their skills, and the traditional ways of doing so are no longer adequate. The new model presented in this book is prescient in responding to the emergent need for a transformation in corporate education.

Gregg Fraley, CEO, GF Innovation

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To our husbands, Jeremy and Rich. We value your insights and cherish your support of us while we work. And we talk about you all the time when we're off on yet another modern learning business trip or video conference.

To our many colleagues who have trusted us enough to apply our models in your workplaces and have shared your stories of success and ideas for ongoing evolution. We are so glad we can all reinvent learning design together