Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen

We love trinities (no, not the ‘holy’ ones). One trinity that we really like is that we as teachers, trainers, instructional designers… must strive to create effective, efficient and satisfying learning experiences for our learners and ourselves. Effective simply means that the learner or the instructor achieves the goals that were intended. Efficient means that they achieve their goal in as little time as possible, expending as little ineffective mental effort as possible, and/or at as little cost as possible. This is the same for the instructor. It’s not getting something done as fast as possible, but rather with as little ‘waste’ as possible. And lastly, enjoyable. That something is enjoyable DOESN’T mean that the learning experience necessarily has to be ‘fun’ or ‘entertaining’. Instead, it’s about achieving a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, achievement because you now know or can do something that you…