I recently started working on a project that required our team to propose a strategy for developing training lessons in a way that maximizes their reusability across multiple courses. The company has numerous departments that have different, yet overlapping learning and performance needs. The goal is to create lessons that various departments can share, for the sake of minimizing the amount of content that needs to be continuously updated and maintained, and for the sake of managing the size of the learning library.
This article explores how training content can be divided into lessons. It argues in favor of designing a lesson around a single job task (i.e., terminal objective) rather than by topic or a target amount of time.
