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We're crowdsourcing the biggest list of books on Learning and Development. Do you have a recommendation? Drop it below and we'll make sure to update the list every quarter.
Recommend your fav L&D books →Improving our practice as L&D professionals is a continuous journey. From the basics of figuring out how our brain works and learns to more complex practices such as linking L&D to performance improvement, ever-changing technologies, and new organizational models, there's no end in sight. As learners we can engage in all sorts of learning methods, and one of them is reading. But oftentimes we can get overwhelmed by the amount of books available.
This guide was created with love by Offbeat Fellows with the purpose of guiding your reading journey. We've crowdsourced books from Offbeat Followers and with their help assigned each book one of three levels.
We hope you find it useful!
The first level ensures that you learn the basics, including some of the foundational texts which give you a chance to explore deeper principles, theories, and strategies related to learning design. All books at this level will help you set your foot in the learning and development field, no matter your previous knowledge level or experience.
The second level helps you focus on the process and the application of learning experience design on how to best design for organizational and business capabilities. This level gets more practical and provides further depth into how theory can be put into action for designing high-performance learning journeys.
Finally, this level goes deep and gets further divided into subfields of learning and development and methods of practicing learning. These books are more niche and focus on learning methods (e.g., andragogy, transformational learning, experiential learning, self-directed learning (SDL), project-based learning (PBL)).
Let's begin by ensuring that you learn the basics. The following books are all accessible and interesting to read, no matter your previous knowledge level about L&D, brain science, culture development, etc.
Once you got a hold on the basics, this next level books will walk you through more advanced readings that should enhance your understanding of L&D.
This third level looks deeper into specific learning methods & behavior change readings.
We're crowdsourcing the biggest list of books on Learning and Development. Do you have a recommendation? Drop it below and we'll make sure to update the list every quarter.
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