The Social Learning Planning Canvas: Design Learning That Sticks

The Social Learning Planning Canvas is a practical learning design tool to help you plan (or evaluate) training programmes using evidence-based social learning theory. If you want learning to stick, travel back to the workplace, and show up as real behaviour change, this canvas helps you design for exactly that.

This tool helps you design training that aligns with the four mediational processes that underpin learning through observation:

1. Attention – creating the conditions for people to notice and engage
2. Motivation – making learning meaningful and worth applying
3. Retention – helping people remember and recall what matters
4. Reproduction – supporting practice and transfer back to the job

The canvas prompts you to think through each area, so behaviour change isn’t left to chance.

Who’s it for?

The Social Learning Planning Canvas is ideal for:

• Learning designers and instructional designers
• L&D managers reviewing programme effectiveness
• Trainers who want learning to land beyond the classroom
• Anyone designing learning where behaviour change actually matters

If you want your next programme to result in real-world action – not just good feedback – this tool will help you design for it. Download it using the link below.