What I learned from reading Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen — Designing for Motivation and Habits | by Bola Owoade | Medium

I started writing about my lessons from the book Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen in a previous post. You can read that post here. In that previous post, I wrote about the various types of learning gaps which are; For the most part, dealing with knowledge and skills gaps is straightforward (almost). Knowledge gaps require providing someone with the right information and to close a skills gap, learning, and training programmes that are highly experiential and practice-focused are required. Dealing with the other four gaps is not that straightforward. On this let’s learn a bit from Julie. Let’s look at designing for motivation and habits. Part of the aim here is to improve a person’s self-efficacy. Self-efficacy can be described as someone’s belief in their own ability to succeed. Basically, it’s the little engine that could (“I think I can...I think I can...”). Summarily, using practice, good feedback, praising effort, starting with small and easier tasks and role modeling c

I started writing about my lessons from the book Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen in a previous post. You can read that post here. In that previous post, I wrote about the various types of learning gaps which are; For the most part, dealing with knowledge and skills gaps is straightforward (almost). Knowledge gaps require providing someone with the right information and to close a skills gap, learning, and training programmes that are highly experiential and practice-focused are required. Dealing with the other four gaps is not that straightforward. On this let’s learn a bit from J