1700 Series Academy

WHY A 1700 SERIES ACADEMY?

The changing learning landscape, coupled with a decrease in employee engagement across the federal workforce, has forced us to evolve how we onboard, train, professionally develop, and promote continuous learning for our training and education developers in the federal workforce. The 1700 Series Academy was established to provide performance support in a way that aligns to how we execute our job roles and responsibilities and how we best learn and retain new knowledge and skills. 

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Academy has a three tiered approach. 

  • 1. Just in time learning paths. You choose the knowledge and skills you want to work on.
  • 2. Facilitated virtual instruction with real-time Learning Experience Designers.
  • 3. Community support with reachback and resources for continuous learning.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

Get ready to:

  • 1. Apply how we learn and what we do with learning
  • 2. Incorporate foundational Learning Experience Design Strategies
  • 3. Build highly engaging, meaningful, rigorous, and relevant learning
  • 4. Design appropriate assessment and evaluation strategies that measure the right things
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Who Are We?

TTD Learning Solutions was created to bring back the lost art of “Design” in Instructional Design and incorporate Learning Experience Design (LXD). As former 1700 career series employees, we noticed challenges in the hiring and developing of talent in designing learning for both the Military and other Federal Agencies. We built the 1700 Series Academy to support those gaps in the workforce’s knowledge and skills. We will support you in putting the pieces together by: 

  • Upskilling or reskilling the current training development workforce
  • Speeding up the course development process while meeting resource constraints
  • Creating quality and rigorous instruction in any delivery platform
  • Improving readiness across organizations to meet their missions

Much like the military balances the art and science of operational planning, learning experience designers need to do the same. The military art is about linking tactics to strategy to find innovative practices on the battlefield that become the game changer in the fight. Military science is the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that are practiced and applied in the current operational environment. In learning design, the art is the creative thinking and the intentional design for how a learner moves through their learning experience. The science is the psychological processes we use to learn, connect, and retrieve in order to perform new skills. Both the art and science fit together like puzzles pieces from different perspectives and domains. These pieces are required to design experiences that help learners explore new concepts, generate new ways of doing business, and ultimately become better performers.  

TTD Team

Trish Mulligan-Renaud

I am a learning experience designer and strategist, focused on how we learn (the science) and intent on bringing back the intentional design (the art) in our learning product development practices. I received a B.A. from Plattsburgh State University, NY and an M.A. in Instructional Systems from the University of Central Florida. I am a former special education teacher and 20-year Instructional Systems Specialist (ISS) for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. I've also worked for the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab with our Joint Military Services and supported the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). My last assignment was teaching the Army's Common Faculty Development - Developer's Course (CFD-DC), influencing several training developers to adapt better design practices. I'm looking forward to being your facilitator through this journey.

HeATHER seiser

I am a human performance technologist, skilled in all phases of the ADDIE model. I have a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology and experience in job/task analysis, needs assessment, courseware design and development, and assessment creation. I am passionate about helping others incorporate sound instructional design principles into their courses.

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