Bootcamps – High Impact Learning Academy

Bootcamps are intensive training days in which you learn to master fully each building block. Some HILL building blocks can be combined. We always start with the first 3 most essential building blocks.

Bootcamp Creating Urgency

1 day

In an Urgency bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for creating urgency among learners
Solutions for creating variation in urgency
Why urgency is a must.
How to implement urgency.
Why creating urgency does not cost you extra time but renders you great impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

How can the strongest urgency be created?
How do we create urgency continuously?
Should we vary in urgency for learners?
What types of urgency are there?
What are the different effects of different types of urgency?
Can we create urgency for large groups such as e.g. 700 learners?

Bootcamp Installing Learner Agency

1 day

In a Learner Agency bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for creating agency.
Core effects of learner agency.
Solutions for problematic agency problems.
Why agency is a must for learning.
How to implement agency for small or large groups (20 up to 3000 learners).
Why creating agency does not cost you extra time but gives you great impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

How can the strongest agency be created?
How do we create agency continuously?
Do all learners need agency to learn impactful?
Should we vary in agency for learners?
How do we know what level of agency is appropriate for learners?
What types of agency are there?
What are the different effects of different types of agency?
Can we create agency for large groups such as e.g. 700 learners?

Bootcamp Assessment as Learning

1 day

In an AaL bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for AaL.
Assessment problems and AaL solutions.
Why AaL is a must.
How to implement AaL, manage AaL and administer AaL.
Why AaL does not cost you extra time but renders you great impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

How do we assess currently?
What is working well and what is not as we would like it?
Consequential validity of the current assessment?
What is AaL? What forms are there?
How do we ensure variation?
Can I still take a classic test?
How many tests can work?
What methods do support AaL?
How do these look like in practice?
Why individual but also group evaluations are a must.
How do I set up portfolios, criterion-oriented interviews, peer assessment, 360° feedback, etc.?
How do I implement that? Can a course work without testing?
How are these related to our final qualifications?
Which feedback system do I set up? How?
How you establish quality assurance?
How do we arrive at feedback seeking behaviour?
What about our time allocation? Is this feasible?
How do we use AaL if we have 100 learners?
And how if we have 3000 learners?

Bootcamp Collaboration/Coaching

1 day

In a collaboration & coaching bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for collaboration and for coaching.
HILL coaching problems and solutions in HILL programmes.
Why coaching is a must; why collaboration is a must.
How to implement HILL coaching; how to coach one to one and one to team.
Tips and tricks for high quality HILL coaching.
Why coaching does not cost you extra time but renders you great impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

How can we coach best?
What are the best tricks to coach in a HILL supportive way?
How frequently should we coach learners?
How does coaching relate to feedback?
Do we need to coach the process (PDP) and on the content to be learned, or should this be done by two separate coaches?
Do we coach at the individual level, or at the team level, or both?
Should we vary in coaching methods in for learners?
How do we coach for small groups and how for large groups?

Bootcamp Hybrid learning

1 or 1/2 day

In a hybrid learning bootcamp, you learn:

Key principles for hybrid learning.
Why mere blended e-learning never works and creates a drop-out of over 90%.
E-learning problems and hybridity solutions.
Why hybrid learning is a must.
How to implement hybridity in learning processes.
Why Hybrid learning saves time and can create extra give impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

What is the difference between blended learning and hybrid learning?
Why is mere e-learning not effective?
How can the strongest impact be created with hybridity?
How do we create a hybrid learning path?

Bootcamp Flexibility (formal/informal learning)

1/2 day

In an ‘informal learning’ bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for informal learning.
What can we still do in formal learning? How do we lecture? How to provide instruction?
Informal learning problems and solutions.
How informal learning is related to your infrastructure.
How to implement and manage informal learning.
Why informal learning does not cost you extra time but can render extra impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

What is informal learning? How to use it?
How do we arrange our infrastructure to support informal learning?
What tips and tricks are there for increasing informal learning?
How do we organize formal learning in a HILL environment?
When and how do we provide lectures, instruction, skills trainings, etc.?

Bootcamp Action and Knowledge sharing

1 or 1/2 day

In an Action & Knowledge Sharing bootcamp, you learn:

Key methods for knowledge sharing.
Knowledge sharing problems solutions.
How knowledge sharing is related to presence in vivo or virtually.
How to implement knowledge sharing.
Why knowledge sharing does give you great impact.

Questions such as the following will be tackled:

How can the strongest knowledge sharing or action be created?
How do we create knowledge sharing continuously?
Should we vary in knowledge sharing methods for learners?
How is this intertwined with coaching methods?
What types of knowledge sharing are there?
What are the different effects of different types of knowledge sharing?
Can knowledge sharing methods be used during the learning process, during assessment processes, etc.?