{"id":225,"date":"2024-11-23T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru293\/?p=225"},"modified":"2024-11-23T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:29:12","slug":"lrnt-524-assignment-1-design-thinking-pecha-kucha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru293\/lrnt-524-assignment-1-design-thinking-pecha-kucha\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 – Assignment 1 – Design Thinking Pecha Kucha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As has been my experience throughout the MALAT program so far, I had a fantastic opportunity to partner with yet another incredible classmate, in this case, Allie Munro<\/a>. Allie and I collaborated on Assignment 1 in LRNT-524 to undertake the Empathy and Define stages of a Design Thinking process to create the Pecha Kucha video linked below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We began our conversations by comparing our respective workplace sectors, defence and healthcare, to identify commonalities and differences in learning environments and training delivery. Despite being vastly different operationally, we found many overlapping challenges experienced by our learners, particularly new hire nurses (healthcare) or service members being deployed on new missions (defence).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, we chose to focus our conversation on new hire nurses<\/em> as our representative group as there are aspects and details of Allie\u2019s work that he is (understandably) unable to discuss. Nonetheless, we agreed that our final problem statement was sufficiently abstracted to apply to our respective learner groups and learning environments. And as you\u2019ll hear in the Pecha Kucha, our proposed statement likely applies to many other sectors as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One crucial detail that Allie and I agreed upon in this process is that we recognize that we are not directly involved in delivering training to our learners. As such, we were intentionally mindful that our perspectives and assumptions are filtered through our worldviews, biases, and context and do not fully capture the viewpoints of our learners. If we were to perform this process again, we agreed that it would be critical to engage directly with a wide variety of learners from our target population to ensure we adequately capture their needs, wants, motivations, and frustrations as expressed in their own words. To help moderate this factor in this assignment, I interviewed two nurse educators who train newly hired nurses at my workplace. Their feedback helped validate several ideas that Allie and I felt were reasonable, including our proposed personas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon reflecting on this Design Thinking activity, I see the value it can bring in overcoming barriers and encouraging participants to think creatively, abstractly, and unrestrainedly. I look forward to applying the complete process in a future work activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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