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Learning Re-Framed is a weekly exploration of how learning connects to day-to-day work in a changing world.
I’m Andrew Jackson. For more than twenty years, I’ve worked in learning design, performance improvement and workplace capability — designing learning, working with L&D teams, and helping organisations think through how people actually become more effective at what they do.
Over time, I found myself increasingly drawn to a set of deceptively simple questions:
Why does some learning transfer smoothly into real work while other learning struggles to stick?
Why do well-designed programmes sometimes produce uneven outcomes?
And why do so many conversations in L&D feel slightly disconnected from the realities of day-to-day performance?
This publication is my attempt to explore those questions in public.
Some weeks I write about learning design, psychology or workplace performance. Other weeks I explore workflow learning, performance support, AI, or the hidden systems and constraints that shape what L&D teams are able to build.
The common thread running through all of it is an interest in re-framing learning problems — looking again at assumptions many of us inherited early in our careers and asking whether they still fully explain the world we now work in.
You’ll find recurring themes here around:
learning design and visual communication
cognition, motivation and learner capability
workflow learning and performance support
AI and the future of workplace learning
the organisational systems that shape learning outcomes
But this isn’t really a publication about “best practice”.
It’s more an ongoing exploration of how learning, performance and work increasingly overlap and what that might mean for the future of L&D.
If this is your first time here, I’d like to suggest a few starting points below:
Re-thinking Learning Design
When Good Intentions Lead Us in the Wrong Direction: why learning styles may have solved the wrong problem.
The Afternoon That Broke All the Rules: a reflection on why learning effectiveness is often shaped by more than instructional quality alone.
The Learning That Happens After Training: exploring why workplace performance creates a different kind of learning challenge.
Learning Systems & Workplace Reality
More Powerful, Not Necessarily Faster: why modern learning technology hasn’t necessarily reduced cost of development.
The Part of LearningWe Rarely Teach: looking at whether part of the transfer problem sits with learner capability itself.
Media, Design & Communication
Learning to Speak Visually: why visual communication may matter far more than most L&D teams realise.
The Rise of Rise: exploring the deeper differences between canvas-based and block-based learning environments.
If that territory sounds interesting, you’re very welcome to join me here.
New pieces are published weekly.
Andrew
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