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Capture spontaneous learning moments with ease
When you open the app to record a learning moment, the key question appears: “What was an important learning moment for you today?” (you can adjust this question in the settings if you wish). A learning moment can be anything: tasks, conversations, or observations from which you gained insights or new knowledge that are important for your professional development. This can involve planned activities that are part of your daily work, but also casual or unexpected events that often happen informally. For example, receiving feedback in passing, completing a work task, observing exemplary behaviour from an experienced colleague, getting a tip during a coffee break, or experiencing a conflict situation.
These kinds of situations are part of everyday work practice but are not always recorded within the framework of lifelong learning. As a result, they often go unused, even though they can be valuable building blocks for professional development. Important learning moments can involve both hard skills and soft skills. Examples of hard skills include independently and correctly performing a fault analysis or administering medication without supervision. Soft skills might involve managing work pressure during a deadline or conducting an emotional conversation with a client.
What these moments are and how they fit into your learning process is entirely up to you. You can personalise Echo by entering your own learning goals or learning questions. Recorded learning moments can be easily linked to these goals, giving you a clear overview of your growth and development in your logbook and timeline.
In addition, you can connect your profile in Echo to your coach(es), mentors, colleagues, or fellow students. Together, you form a learning community on your learning or worksite — and this can happen entirely within Echo. Being connected allows you to share learning moments, track each other’s development, and stay informed about what’s relevant for preparation for discussions or peer review sessions. This not only strengthens your own learning process but also lets you learn with and from others.
Along with a short description of your experience, you indicate which emotion this experience evoked in you. Emotions help you notice and remember meaningful experiences more effectively. Based on a classification of basic emotions in professional situations, Echo lets you choose from five core emotions, each with a set of sub-emotions. This allows you not only to record what you learned but also how you felt — making your reflection more powerful and personal:
- Good (confident, appreciated, content, proud, relaxed, grateful, valuable)
- Inspired (creative, energised, playful, motivated, focused);
- Insecure (rejected, confused, weak, anxious, shy, worried);
- Bad (bored, tired, sad, lonely, useless, discouraged);
- Angry (hurt, annoyed, frustrated, critical, jealous).
Recorded learning moments then appear in your logbook and timeline, where you can link them to learning goals and share them with your learning community.
