 I'm Deborah and I'm known to some of you here today and I'm actually here on staff at Ilrie as an instructional designer. Now when I give my card to people they have a look at the card and they say oh yeah okay hi Deborah and what's an instructional design? So now let's just imagine since I did work with the Iblee group for some time let's just imagine that someone from Iblee asked me this question in the early days so I say okay well listen you've got some sales agents and they don't know anything about micro insurance but they've got to go out and they've got to be able to tell people pastoralists who maybe don't even know about insurance about micro insurance about index-based insurance they've got to be able to explain concepts like satellites and how data comes from satellites they've got to be able to convince these people that all this is real and that they should actually pay real money every every year just in case something bad happens then you know there will be money paid back to them so on faith they're going to pay this money this premium and they are expecting to get a payout so this is the role of your sales agents so now I'm an instructional designer so what I'm proposing to do is I'm proposing to lock all these people in a room for about a week and lecture at them until it gets into their head okay so how long do you think I would have had the job so this is not instructional design okay instructional design instructional design basically takes us from looking at okay what is the job we have the sales agents we know what they're supposed to do and what's the current status quo this current status quo is okay so maybe they've sold insurance but not necessarily index-based insurance you have pastoralists who maybe know a little bit about insurance but probably don't and certainly don't understand the concepts around micro insurance and the indexed based model of the micro insurance and you have some logical and practical constraints I mean this is in northern Kenya this is in southern Ethiopia there are remote clients here you have to travel a long distance your sales agents won't necessarily have phone connections even to be able to call in and find out oh someone's asked me a difficult question I can't answer it what's what's what should I tell them so there are that's the analysis side of things so we follow a model basically this model adi so ADDIE this is analysis design development implementation evaluation so the analysis is let's look at the situation where do we start from and then let's design some learning activities some let's design the learning pathway that takes them from this point to the point where they can actually go out and sell the product to pastoralists reassure them answer all their questions be knowledgeable make this real for the pastoralist okay so we have point A we have point B and simple matter just designing how to get there so lock them in the room lecture at them for five days no we don't do that and what I'm going to do in this talk is I'm going to go through the steps of the adi model with one particular product that has been developed by the capacity development unit for feast so feast is the feed assessment tool feed assessment tool feast it's a systemic way systematic way of going out into a community and saying okay now obviously you need to maximize the productivity of your livestock you have certain resources at your disposal you have a certain amount of fodder that you already produced maybe you can produce more maybe there are certain varieties that might grow better here let's have a look at the community their capabilities and actually talk to them about what the situation is and how the the research organization can help them so this is this is the step away from the old model where you go out and you say okay got this wonderful technology just use this all your problems will be solved this is the agricultural innovation systems approach so feast in the analysis stage what we basically had feast were people like Alan Duncan whom I'm sure you all know here in Ethiopia and Ben LeCue you down in Kenya running around various countries to run these workshops personally so this of course is important because donors are pushing ill read to be able to prove approaches toolboxes such as feast on a larger scale okay they don't I mean it's not enough to show us that it worked with one community we want to see if it works with a range of communities we want to actual proof but scientists have to make sure that they uphold the level and the quality of research at Erie I mean that's basically what ill read about so taking these people out of their jobs and taking them to run workshops is a big time commitment what capacity development did was said okay Alan and Ben how about you become the subject matter experts we'll try and get into your head we'll look at your learning materials we'll come out and observe workshops we'll see how you manage to train other researchers to be able to go out to communities and run the feast approach and if we can document this if we can prepare learning materials if we can prepare learning activities that are good enough to be able to support someone who isn't Alan or Ben who doesn't have their breadth of experience perhaps but with that support they can present a course to the same level or a similar level of quality so the actual feast toolkit they the feast when you go out to the community what you do is you select people to participate in a focus group discussion and in that focus group discussion you talk about the all the various aspects that contribute to livestock productivity and fodder availability the data that you get from that focus group discussion you put into a software application and you then that sort of steps you through the software application produces graphs and the graphs sort of lead you towards an analysis so what could we do to help okay so the software application a capacity development worked with the scientists to improve that software application so it was a little easier for people to understand and the focus group discussions for the focus group discussions they produced an interview guideline so that someone who was new perhaps to running these focus groups would be able to do it the same way that everyone else had done a checklist for workshops what do you have to do a day before what do you have to do four weeks before what do you have to do two months before to make sure that this intervention is going to work and then produced also e-learning modules so what I'm going to do today is take you through some examples of these e-learning modules so you can see there are a series of videos that show you how to use a software and other videos that actually paint the background and explain why you do things and why you do them the way that has been suggested and we also of course analyzed because we're fortunate enough that Ellen and Ben have been running these things for a long time we were able to analyze where were the where were the pain points where people didn't understand things so where there were things like the sampling strategy you go into a community sorry and you invite people to come in for a focus group it's no use inviting just the the five men that you meet down the street that's not going to be representative of the community you have to have women you have to have men you have to have large holding farmers you have to have people who only have a hectare of land to work on in order to be able to know that the solution you're providing is a solution for the whole community that was difficult for people sampling so the the designers actually developed a game to help them with that this is the what it looks like what the feast online e-learning materials look like on the LMS we have the feast modules on the learning management system LMS learning dot illy dot org we have to remember this learning dot illy dot all because that's the illy LMS so if any of you are interested in putting up e-learning courses this is available for you this is not just for captive we this is something that we hope that people from all over illy and other CG partners will want to do so let's have a look in more detail at what's on our LMS so on the right hand side you can see the feast and we've zoomed out a bit so that you can see all of the modules that are part of this e-learning course for feast feast stands for feed assessment tool right one correct answer over here so you see interactive learning works good works well okay so you have your feed assessment tool you have your e-learning modules and on the left hand side you can see one of the videos so we have a series of short very short videos that people watch and come to grips with material at the end of a series of these very short videos you'll have some quiz questions so that people will be able to understand for themselves did I actually comprehend that material am I remembering it will I be able to use this when I go out to the field so it's it's feedback for the user and of course it's also feedback for us because it's on an LMS so we can have a look at what you answered for the quiz questions did you all get zero out of ten in which case we'd better panic and go back out and organize another workshop for you so the LMS has the advantage that we get information very fine granular information you know what did she ferro answer to that question so what school did Abdullah get for this course if he got zero we assume that he was playing computer games at the same time so we would want to do something about contacting Abdullah's supervisor right so here we have one of the videos as an example activities in a farmer-centered diagnosis explain the importance of involving farmers in the process describe your role as a feast facilitator summarize how the feed assessment tool is employed in a farmer-centered diagnosis during this course we will introduce many new concepts and unfamiliar terms to help we will define key terms at the beginning of each lesson do not worry these terms don't make sense at first we will discuss each of them in detail shortly key terms for this lesson include farmer-centered diagnosis okay so that's an example as you can see this is a very structured way of learning so terminology is defined the objectives are outlined people know what to expect and the course proceeds in a very structured format now as I said there are also some concepts that people know that the scientists know from their experience in the field that people have problems with so for those sorts of things the designers actually worked on some interactive activities to give people a chance to try things out in practice while it wasn't really critical they weren't actually in the field they weren't going to make a mistake with the community so this is an example where it gives you an introduction this is a community next and the activity is to select eight farmers from a community where there are only 17 people of course it's going to be more complex but as we said this is a simulation and previous the the variables that are likely to influence the outcomes or what we hear in the focus group discussion are gender ethnicity farm size and location so we have to bear those in mind next and in the community that we're facing we're told that there are three ethnic groups the red tribe the blue tribe and the gold tribe there are slightly more women than men and they raise cattle goats and chickens next so what the activity is you will actually see actually we go next here's your community here's your 17 people if we click on one of these people we will see something about them we'll see that they're from the blue tribe because the figure is blue here's some information about them and if you select if you click the select button then they will become part of your sample and the idea is that Abdullah is going to go through here and he's going to select the seven people and he's going to do it at random so you can see in the intro it's actually giving you enough information to be able to I'm sorry it's eight people Abdullah keep going it's going to give you enough information about I've got a small holding or I've got a large holding I'm from a gold tribe I'm from the red tribe I'm female I'm male and then once you've made your selection of course you can you don't have to do this as he's doing it if you think you've made a mistake you could just click on one it would go back and you could choose somebody else to be part of your sample you then submit your selection and it says oh dear in terms of ethnic groups and farm size you your sample was completely biased and you're not going to have a productive focus group discussion okay so this is a nice way to go through and learn a skill and of course if you're not doing this in front of an entire workshop it's a lot less embarrassing you can do it at home and you can do it multiple times so let's go on sorry we have to go back to the PowerPoint okay I also mentioned that there was there were videos that told you how to use the software and we'll just have a brief look at one of those because I'm running out of time after installing and registering the feast data application the first thing you will see upon launching the program is the home menu you may select from the following options enter data view reports statistics and units of measurement printable data collection forms import export data user manual exit okay and edit info before we delve into the main features of the application okay so that was a very short intro but I'm sure you've all used thousands of these things on YouTube so you know what a software application video tutorial looks like this is something you might not have seen this is a whiteboard animation and you don't mention these on the first day all over the world small holder farmers often struggle to provide enough quality feed for their livestock that's why our scientists created a set of electronic forms known as the feed assessment tool or feast to help development workers collect and analyze data about local feed resources then identify promising interventions to improve farmers access to quality feed the designers packed feast with power through reports and utilities for calculating the composition of livestock feed nutritional content of animals diets herd composition farmers household income so a whiteboard animation is a very good way to introduce a topic that gives a rapid synopsis of a topic if you can put that on a website of course people might be interested in going to your LMS so now I'm asking questions here in an interactive format of course in an e-learning course we can't do that but we have a number of quiz questions a number of different formats for quiz questions that we can ask and you can see here that this is a format where you actually have to join match from left to right match the products with the amount of money that you can get out of those here's another format where you get to choose the word that completes the sentence so there are approximately 500 what and you can select from be in thousand or million are there approximately 500 be in small holder farmers responsible for feeding let's have a look if you click right in the middle Abdullah and we chose the wrong answer for one of those and in the question or the quiz question actually tells you okay well you got it partially right but actually the full answer is this so this is this is the way that you use quiz questions actually is a learning tool so it's not just saying yes you got it right or no you got it wrong which is motivational but it's also telling you why you did or you didn't get it right or wrong so it's also using quiz questions as a learning tool and I almost out of time okay so I'll skip through this and I just want to introduce this little device which Tigist is going to show around to you it's the device that of course we mentioned or it I mentioned on the first day because not all of our people have access to the online LMS but we would still like to know have they understood the materials did they do well on the quiz did they find interesting enough to complete the modules of course as the framework sorry as the framework for Capdev shows you it's very important to us to actually do research on capacity development and to monitor and evaluate so we want to know how well the materials are working and of course if we're working with you and we're working on developing a course with you in the future you will also want to know how well people did with your with your course are they really understanding it or not are they getting the quiz questions right which ones aren't they getting right so the offline player that Tigist is showing you all here and pictured on the screen is a solution to that where people can do the course they can watch all those videos they can do those interactive activities they can do those quiz questions that you saw previously and then when they sync with the server we can get all the results so thank you very much