the sme test
Post on 17-Oct-2014
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Why learning designers find it hard to work with subject experts, and how to do it better.TRANSCRIPT
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The SME test
Dealing with Subject Matter Experts
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I’m Jenny.
I’m a learning designer.
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I used to be a training designer.
But now I’m a learning designer.
Anyway …
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I work with SMEs –subject matter experts.Here’s one I used to work with –Smeaton
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He knows a lot about widgets.I mean a lot!
Go on, ask me
anything!
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…which is good for me because I’m working on some elearning on An Introduction to Widgets.
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Smeaton, why are widgets gizmo-
shaped?
It’s obvious, my dear …
But it’s not always easy.
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That’s the trouble. He doesn’t always realise how much he knows.
As I said in the guidance notes, on page, oh, 74 was
it?
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Every grain of knowledge in his head is linked to every other one.
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That’s why he’s an expert. He knows the links.
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Much of it unconsciously.
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I want just a few bits of knowledge for my course
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But you’re missing …
That’s not giving the complete picture …
It’s not right to generalise like
that.
It hurts him
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This is true of most widgets, but …
The 1972 Widgets Act changed that for certain categories of
widgets …
… he feels ill
Predominantly, under most
circumstances, however …
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Sometimes I have to insist …
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Sometimes I have to insist …
You’re hurting my
links!!!
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Oops.
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Smeaton recovered but he hated my course and undermined it in the business areas
Hnnnf, hnnnfff!
Quite.
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What’s a designer to do?
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I asked Cathy Moore …Use the Action
Mapping approach!
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I asked Cathy Moore …Start with the
business change you
want to make.Then work out the
tasks people actually do, and
devise some practice activities.
You only need offer enough information for the learners to do that practice.
That makes sense!
blog.cathy-moore.com
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I asked Donald Clark…Make it contractual!
Limit their sphere of activity by getting them to sign a strict schedule, along with agreements on delivery, format for
comments, what they have to do and what they don’t do (learning and interactive
design).
Hey, we’re being
leveraged!
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2006/09/sme-subject-matter-egomaniacs.html
Did you mention
hay?
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I learned to use Clive Shepherd’s Learning Object Design Assistantto structure the
questions I asked the experts.
So this is a concept, not a procedure,
Bellamy.
Very good, sir, concept
it is.
http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/
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Now Smeaton and I get on famously … I just needed to ask the right questions.
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What do I need to know in order to stack widgets on
a shelf?
Well, their shape, the sizes they come in, the
kinds of shelves …And
how to unpack
and stack them.
That’s a procedure!
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… and that’s all.
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Of course, more remains to be said about ….
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That’s all. Quite.
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How can I tell her I adore her?
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Norman Lamont, Lloyds Banking Group