5 Principles of Lean Thinking in Education

Consider:
1. What is the value of each learning experience for our learners?
2. How does the learning experience fit into the wider value stream, where every step of the learning process adds value to the learning process?
3. Have you allowed the learning to flow, without interruptions?
4. Do our learners tgain value from us as educators?
5. Do we pursue excellence?

Lean education and lean thinking looks at lean processes for learning rather than mass production through learning tasks and intentions designed for large groups of students to achieve in a set period of time.

In a lean approach the learner pulls what they need from the system when they need it (learner agency); rather than the traditional push approach where educational content is pushed toward the learner over a set period of time.

Adapted from Womak and Jones (2005)