Short e-book of the Learning Battle Cards "How to use" series. This one is explaining how to make team activity to bring new ideas to your project and keep this ideas realistic.

1. Learning Battle Cards activity
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6-20
New paths
How to make your learning design
team enrich project with new
innovative but realistic ideas
time [min]
100-180
Learning Battle Cards activity

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The art of design good and efficient learning processes is not
easy. Learners of different generations and needs expect
something new and oustanding to engage them in learning.
This ebook is prepared for teams which design and implement
learning projects.
Find out how to make a short activity with your team to bring
new ideas to your learning or development project. The ideas will
be new and probably innovative, but they will also be realistic and
possible to implement in your project.
You will need to use Learning Battle Cards.
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Activity summary
To make the team
bring new ideas
which are innovative
but fit the project
goals and are
realistic.
The Goal
Several new ideas to
be implemented in
the learning project.
Result
Depends on team
size:
100-180 minutes
Time
You will need 2-4
learning battle cards
decks – one for each
group
Tools

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Timing
Project
context
Groups
and
roles
Group Work Ideas presentation
15-30 min
depending if
the team is
familiar with
the project
45 min10 min 30+ min
Depends on group size – allow at least 5
minutes for each idea presented.
If there is time you can allow some time for
discussion for each idea.

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Project context (5-15 min)
Business goals
Learning goals
Target group
Learning environment
The New Paths activity is designed to be used in context
of the project. We want to bring new ideas but relevant to
the particular learning journey.
To keep people minds close to project inform teams what
project is considered.
Define or recall its goals, target group and learning
environment.
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Ask people to form groups of 3 people. In each
group one person shall be chosen as so called
reviewer, the rest people are innovators.
Provide each team with one deck of Learning
Battle Cards.
Explain teams what are roles in the teams
according to the chart on next page.
Groups and roles (10 min)2

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Innovators are expected to
choose 1 method (15 minutes)
and present idea based on the
method to improve project.
Reviewer is responsible for
keeping the idea realistic, linked
with the project and its aims.

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Review 2
15 min
Review 1
15 min
Idea
Incubation
15 min
Ask each team to divide LBC deck into 2
parts and give them to innovators.
Group work is divided into 2 phases.
Group work (45 min)3
Phase 1 – Idea incubation
First ask innovators to quickly review
their half of deck and choose one card.
Then they shall prepare to present their
idea based on the card.
In the meantime you can take all the
reviewers to other part of room and
discuss with them what are the most
important factors to keep the ideas
within the project goals and possibilities.

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Review process
Phase 2 - Reviews
Reviewers ask first innowator of their team to
present shortly his idea.
Reviewers ask questions and discuss with innowator
to make the idea realistic and linked with project.
They ask what we need to implement idea, how it
works in our project etc.
During review the second innowator can help both
collegues to shape the idea.
After half of time Reviewer makes review with the
second innowator in his team.
Questions helping to make idea realistic:
• How we can do it?
• Who can do it?
• What are the additional costs?
Questions helping to make idea linked with project:
• What activities in our project can be enriched by
the idea?
• How it fits our goals?

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Ask teams to present their ideas. Allow at
least 5 minutes for each one.
Ask them to explain how the idea
supports project and its goals.
Ask to propose how the idea can be
implemented in the project.
If there is spare time encourage
discussion about implementation of each
idea.
Ideas presentation (30+ min)4

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After the activity you get a list of new ideas for the
project. You can proces the list in different ways:
make ranking, use methods like 6 hats of creativity
etc.
The key elements of this activity are to blend
creativity inspired by Learning Battle Cards and
realistic approach provided by the review process.
Please be sure that your group understands it.
You can consider to introduce to this activity some
competition between teams.
Practical tips

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