I learned something new yesterday and want to share. I am working on a project that needs to be turned upside down! I am talking to anyone and everyone about what new ideas are floating around in training. Someone I met yesterday mentioned Tiagi’s Four Door model. Anyone who is faintly familiar with training, knows Tiagi. He is a master at framegrames and that is just the beginning. He is an energetic, excitable presenter with lots of interesting ideas. Here is what I found out about his Four Door model:
What is the Four-door Model?
The “four doors” represent four different areas or components of the learning environment:
1. The Library
2. The Playground,
3. The Café
4, The Evaluation Center.
Each of the components
The Library contains the content of the course or module—the information required to master the learning objectives and to successfully complete the final performance test. It typically contains pre-built or existing content, such as videos, documents, slide shows, photos, and audio files. Anything that contains meaningful content and could be put on the Web is used. Learners are invited to study the content in any way they prefer.
The Playground contains fast-paced frame-games that provide practice in recalling and applying the content from the library. They help increase fluency. The frame-games typically require the learner to type or choose short answers. Learners can play each frame game repeatedly at up to three levels of difficulty.
The Café contains social learning activities. A good example is the open-question game which uses open-ended questions to encourage the learner to reflect on the content presented in the library. Learners respond to each question by typing an answer in a text box. When complete, the learner can review the answers given by experts and fellow participants. The café may also include other social-learning components such as wikis, blogs, message boards, etc. Facebook and LinkedIn groups would fall under this category.
The Evaluation Center is simply the test center. It contains the performance test. Ideally, instead of using multiple-choice questions, the evaluation asks the learner to complete or participate in an actual job-related assignment.
The beauty of this model is that the learner can use or not use any of these components. It allows the learner to decide based on what they need to know and how they like to learn it. This really ties nicely with the just-in-time learning model that is so prevalent today. Also, you could name these four components anything you wanted so that it reflects your business and culture.