Why These Journeys Exist
R&D teams work inside regulatory frameworks that shape nearly every decision — how evidence is generated, how trials are run, how patients are recruited and heard. That knowledge usually lives in dense source documents and expert heads, which makes it slow to find and hard to learn from. The Learning Journeys turn five of those frameworks into structured, self-paced learning paths on Learn2Grow, so R&D staff can build the understanding on their own schedule, at the moment they need it.
The gap
- Regulatory frameworks are foundational for R&D work but rarely taught in an accessible, structured way
- Source material is written for reference, not for learning
- Teams need a shared baseline understanding across functions
The answer
- Self-paced journeys on the learning platform employees already use
- One framework per journey, scoped so it can be completed in manageable sessions
- Open to anyone — voluntary enrollment, no mandate attached
The Five Journeys
Real-World Evidence (RWE)
How real-world data and evidence complement clinical trial data in understanding how treatments perform in everyday practice.
Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT)
How trial activities move closer to the patient — remote visits, digital tools, and home-based participation — and what that changes for study teams.
Clinical Trials
The foundations of how clinical trials are designed, run, and governed — the reference point the other journeys build on.
Patient Recruitment
How patients are found, approached, and enrolled, and why recruitment is one of the hardest problems in getting a trial done.
Patient Advocacy
How the patient voice is represented in research — what advocacy groups do and how their perspective should shape study decisions.
The Result
That combination matters. Mandated training measures assignment; voluntary completion measures value. A four-figure completion count for optional learning says R&D employees found these journeys worth their time — the outcome every self-paced program wants and few get.
Design Approach
- Needs analysis first: each journey is grounded in a stakeholder training-needs analysis — what R&D teams actually needed to understand, identified with the people who own the work, before any content was built.
- Adult learning theory: the design follows how adults actually learn — self-directed pacing, content connected to the learner's real job, and respect for experience they already bring.
- Self-paced by design: journeys live on Learn2Grow and can be taken in short sessions, so learning fits around lab, study, and submission schedules instead of competing with them.
- Frameworks, not files: each journey teaches the underlying framework — the concepts and how they connect — rather than walking learners through a document they could have read themselves.