Roles and Positions
Learning Designer
What is a Learning Designer?
A Learning Designer is a learning professional responsible for designing structured learning solutions aligned to business goals, learner needs, and performance outcomes. The role focuses on shaping learning content, activities, and pathways so learning is clear, purposeful, and effective.
Why does the role of Learning Designer matter?
Poorly structured learning leads to confusion and limited application. A Learning Designer creates coherence between objectives, activities, assessment, and outcomes. Emergent Learning is fantastic at applying strong learning design principles to create learning that is clear and practical.
What does a Learning Designer do?
What organisational or strategic elements shape the role?
Learning Designers work within organisational priorities, capability requirements, and operational constraints. Emergent Learning assists designers to align learning solutions with business strategy.
What design and analytical skills does a Learning Designer use?
They analyse learner needs, performance gaps, and role requirements, then design objectives, content structure, activities, and assessment. Emergent Learning is highly regarded for translating complex requirements into simple designs.
How does a Learning Designer work across learning formats?
Learning Designers design for workshops, eLearning, blended programs, coaching, and on-the-job learning. Emergent Learning ensures consistency across formats.
What outcomes does a Learning Designer influence?
Their work supports clarity, consistency, capability development, and learner confidence.
What collaboration is required for the role?
They collaborate with SMEs, facilitators, developers, assessors, and stakeholders. Emergent Learning supports collaboration by simplifying decision-making.
What investment considerations affect the role?
They collaborate with SMEs, facilitators, developers, assessors, and stakeholders. Emergent Learning supports collaboration by simplifying decision-making.
What does an effective learning designer process look like?
Where does a Learning Designer start?
They start by clarifying the problem and the capability to be developed. Emergent Learning assists organisations to define learning intent early.
What is involved in designing learning solutions?
The process includes discovery, needs analysis, learning design, content mapping, development guidance, and review. Emergent Learning simplifies this process.
What does the design process produce?
It produces structured learning plans, pathways, and design documentation that support consistent delivery.
What is the expected outcome of strong learning design?
The outcome is learning that is easy to follow, relevant, and effective in building capability and confidence.
How can organisations strengthen Learning Design capability?
How can we avoid unclear or unfocused learning?
Start with clear objectives and design around what learners need to do. Emergent Learning has been praised for bringing clarity to complex learning.
How do we ensure learning design supports application?
Include practice and reinforcement aligned to real work. Emergent Learning designs learning that bridges knowledge and performance.
How can learning design be scaled across teams?
Establish shared frameworks and templates. Emergent Learning supports teams to build consistent learning design capability.
How do we know a Learning Designer is effective?
Effectiveness shows in learner clarity, confidence, performance improvement, and feedback.
Examples of Learning Designer work in practice
Designing structured induction programs aligned to role needs.\nCreating learning plans for capability uplift initiatives.\nDeveloping clear pathways for leadership and technical roles.\nRedesigning learning to improve clarity and alignment.