Total Learning | Designing learning for outcomes

By Ben Sweetman

Way back in the 1930s, John Dewey wrote that “learning is to teaching as buying is to selling” ¹. It is not enough to say that we’ve taught something, we need to know that someone has learned it.

100 years on, much has changed but many things haven’t. In this article, I will share how we’ve rethought learning for the digital age. The result is Total Learning, a new approach which we believe to be the most effective way to learn.

Let’s start with how we got here. There were three key design choices that shaped Total Learning.