Emergent Learning Maps

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"Emergent Learning Maps"

The "Emergent Learning Maps" methodology provides a useful four-quadrant template to structure the analysis of any process of evidence-based decision-making and information feedback through time. It is designed to integrate historical and current data with hypotheses and targets, all in series.

Introduced in the 1990s by Marilyn Darling of Signet Consulting Inc. (New Hampshire), the structure is helpful both to support communication with stakeholders, and to guide an information architecture for implementation in a business intelligence system for formal empirical analysis. The approach is explained on Signet's company site: http://www.signetconsulting.com/downloads/ELFactSheet.pdf  

In the EL Map's visual layout, the x-axis is a timeline, with “the present” at the origin, tangible and verifiable information at the bottom (ground truth), and intangible frameworks, hypotheses and interprations at the top. 

Thus historical facts are at the bottom left; insights learned from those facts are at the top left, hypotheses based on those insights are shown at the top right, and plans based on those hypotheses appear at the bottom right. 

“Performance targets” are expressed in two parts: hypotheses (why we think certain targets are necessary and feasible) and plans (how we intend to achieve those targets).  

Through time each EL Map snapshot is associated with a period, which could be a fiscal year. The two right cells of a given period overlay the two left cells of the next period. 

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