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Aligning Training with the Business: A Simple Model
Greg Brisendine and I recently collaborated on a presentation for an eLearning Guild online forum. We synthesized his experience with training measurement and prevalent measurement models (including Six Sigma's DMAIC and Deming's PDCA) and my experience in training design, development, and management to create the model ... Read More
What if the Impossible Isn’t?
As I mentioned in my recent post “Reflective Reduction Sauce”, returning to my work universe after months at sea has led me to reflect upon some themes I encountered as a result of my attending the Learning 2009 conference. One theme I’m delighted to see more attention on is ... Read More
Five Warning Signs That Your Training is Expendable
All training has a problem it is trying to solve and a customer it is trying to please. Whether you work with internal or external customers, have a mandate as to what to create, or simply design it yourself, ultimately someone is paying the costs to develop the training. They’re ... Read More
Crowdsourcing and Individual Creativity
Beth, I think you had some great points in your last post If We Can Crowdsource Products, Why Not Learning?, but it struck me as maybe too far on the side of the "collective" vs. "individual inspiration". You end with "If the collective thoughts of random strangers can design ... Read More
Essentials of Traditional Course Design
There is an art and a science to instructional design that has inspired whole books and university curricula, but at the end of the day, designing effective courses can be boiled down to three key elements: focus, relevance, and practice. h3. Focus Traditional courses are time bound. Similarly, eLearning courses will only ... Read More
Transcending Constraints
In my last post I referred to “transcending constraints” as a critical component of the learning professionals’ job. What I mean by that is that we need to strike the right balance between designing a blue sky solution (where we have all the time and money in the world to ... Read More
PhotoSynth: Mashups of Our Collective Intelligence via Photos
I don’t know about the rest of you who have your own blogs, but I seem to add many more items to my list of things to write about than I get around to finishing, so my list just grows. Here is one item that I am finally catching up ... Read More
Mashups in Miami Beach
I’m in Miami today finishing up my most recent set of business trips around the planet and catching my flight back to El Salvador. I had the great fortune of spending last night and this morning with a business colleague who lives on the waterfront of the always interesting Miami ... Read More
The Fourth Screen and Counting
I don’t get to see much TV in this new grand adventure I’m on, not that I ever seemed to have time to watch much before either, so many of you may have seen this before but it was new to me. Here is great example of why ... Read More
Lurching Towards More Natural Interfaces
In “Coming to our Senses?” I introduced the topic of finding ways to make better use of our human senses to interact and interface with tools, technology, and machines, and even between ourselves. The LiveScribe Pulse digital pen and paper provides a good example of more “natural” and sense-based ... Read More
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