Discover, design and deliver a transformative training solution.
Analysing workplace needs and piloting technology enabled active, authentic, constructive and collaborative learning resulting in better outcomes.
What’s at risk?
An unfortunate and fatal accident in infantry training precipitated the need for change. The Director for Training and Doctrine led a team of learning and education stakeholders with Spinifex piloting a training course transformation.
Exceptional learning outcomes?
Our vision for technology enabled learning is so much more than delivering learning content through video lectures, e-resources and Zoom classrooms. Learner engagement is only a baseline. Ours aims included accelerating the speed at which we achieve workplace preparedness and greater capability.
It’s more than just the course.
Spinifex was tasked with piloting educational excellence to inform the adoption of organisation-wide blended learning.
This necessitated taking an evidenced-based approach to workplace analysis, design, and development.
Implementation, however required a transformative approach based on three pillars, strategy, structure and support to achieve success.
The use of the defence LMS meant evaluation was in real-time based using student data.
Better learning outcomes. Faster to knowledge. Faster to capability.
We discover insights.
What’s difficult to teach? What high risk?
Spinifex created customised blended learning course evaluation tools to align the investment in technology investment against risk to outcome and difficulty to teach. Stakeholders, Subject matter experts, instructors, students were observed, and surveyed.
This allow teaching assets such as video, animation, dynamic graphics and active images were aligned where the learning need was greatest and ensure best ROI.
However, discovering insights didn’t end there. The use of data collected as students transitioned form the traditional classroom model to the new blended learning environment real-time analysis allowed gaps in the digital course content to be identified and remediated during course delivery.
We design executable strategies.
People and digital platforms.
Adopting a blended learning approach means ensuring technology enhances and not replaces learning.
Strategy
Spinifex designed a learning solution that utilised the existing Defence LMS. Data was used to test new technology enabled ways to learn that used an active, constructive, authentic and collaborative pedagogy.
Structure
Spinifex used an innovative approach that integrated the learning content —what learners needed to learn— with the right pedagogy and technology using a framework of four Blended Learning models. These models aligned the technology investment against the pedagogical requirements.
Support
To execute the program successfully meant engaging with leaders, facilitators and learners, recognising the cultural change required and delivering the professional learning support needed.
Real practice is expensive. Digital practice is cheaper.
Real practice where you apply your new knowledge in Defence can require live firing, equipment platforms, qualified, current and competent soldiers, and safety personnel, ammunition, range bookings, and risk.
This can limit an individual’s opportunity to practice before being found competent.
Spinifex focussed on using technology to increase the number of digital practices with authentic scenarios allowing students to actively practice and reflect as they hone their new skills before entering the real environment.
We deliver transformative learning solutions.
Innovation that delivers results.
The Spinifex pilot delivered 29% better learning outcomes.
The average learner improved their test scores by 29%.
The achieve exceptional, Spinifex was required to understand highly technical content, everything from ammunition ricochet distances, safety angles and weapon safety precautions, and explosive ordnance but translate that learning into a digital learning space allowing students to realise their full potential.
Spinifex analysed, designed, developed, tested, and deployed the Australian Defence Range Qualification course into 17 lesson blended learning course. Results were evaluated iteratively in real time.
New processes that used data to target interventional training to individual students as learning gaps were identified.
The transition to blended learning was supported by professional development was tailored to the needs of both instructors and students.
Results
High risk, challenging learning space …
… an extraordinary result.
29% better outcomes
Using the Spinifex designed blended learning approach, the new modality was proven to deliver 29% better outcomes when compared to the original classroom lecture.
Lowest performing students improved most.
Lowest performing students lifted their test scores over 30% to an average pass mark of 80%. And using the rapid test and learn approach, the course used data to improve learning outcomes with each student intake.
The pilot has led to a training transformation commitment for Australian Army and wider defence.
