Wednesday, December 02, 2020

The OEB Plenary Debate 2020: Is Academic Learning Only for Eggheads?

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Today I will be participating in Online Educa Berlin (OEB) 2020 as a participant in the annual plenary debate. I am sad that COVID is keepin...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Snagit: What's In My Tray?

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  I’m a longtime  Snagit  lover, back to my early days designing eLearning in state government with no budget. I'd tried to get by with ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Psychological Safety: Critical for Learning?

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a year of uncertainty for many professionals. People were suddenly shifted to working from home ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

What Works - and What Doesn't - In Diversity Training

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  Organizations implement diversity initiatives for a number of reasons, including a desire to increase representation, decrease workplace c...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Evidence-Based Design for Virtual Classroom Experiences

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In watching events of 2020 unfold I've seen many organizations make a sudden shift from face-to-face training to the virtual classroom. ...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Less Content, More Learner: An Overview of Learning Experience Design (LxD)

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This month's research report from The Learning Guild is  Less Content, More Learner: An Overview of Learning Experience Design (LxD) .  ...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Designing for Behavior Change: A Conversation with Julie Dirksen

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In this video research report , Julie Dirksen provides an in-depth look at Susan Michie et al.’s research on how to understand and support b...
Friday, January 17, 2020

More Similar than Different: What the Research Says About Generations in the Workplace

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  The topic of “generations” in the workplace has become popular among L&D professionals. Stereotypes exist regarding generational diffe...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Let Me Google That for You (LMGTFY)

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  Let Me Google That for You (LMGTFY) , just out from The Learning Guild, gives me the opportunity to respond to Guild member questions that...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

I'M NOT A BLOGPORTUNIST

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There's really no blog post here. I'm not one of those people who pretend to engage in Twitter conversations while only looking for ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Tracy Parish: Actual Rockstar

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I'm just home from DevLearn , always a fun, exciting event. This year was especially meaningful for me as I watched one of my best frie...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

iSpring 9! Lots of New Features

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I always enjoy hearing from my friends at iSpring , who apart from being excellent humans with a great product are fun companions at minigol...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Blended Learning in Practice

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This month's research report comes from Insync Training's Jennifer Hofmann:  Blended learning can be applied in a variety of wa...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Social Tools for Learning: Updated Report for 2018

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Social tools have emerged, disappeared, and evolved over time. The question is whether or not these tools are being used successfully in th...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Crash Course for New Instructional Designers

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Classroom trainers are often recruited to create eLearning content that is nothing more than a regurgitation of classroom materials. There a...
Monday, March 12, 2018

What's Your Reality? AR and VR

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The eLearning Guild's April research report   examines the benefits and barriers of using augmented reality and virtual reality in organ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Creating Significant Learning Experiences

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This month in Learning Solutions I take a look at  Dee Fink's Five Principles of Good Course design.  A “good course” is one which mee...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

New Job!

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I'm very excited about my new role and, after more than 2 decades in government, am looking forward to exploring the mythical priva...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

eLearning on a Shoestring

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This month's Learning Solutions column revisits a favorite topic of mine: Working with very little budget. For years, it seems that ev...
Thursday, November 09, 2017

"20 Questions to Ask Before

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By request: Here's the " 20 Questions You Should Always Ask Before Starting Any Training Program " one-sheet. Created by Nan...
Monday, July 03, 2017

"Social Technologies in Business"

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Know what happens when a bunch of your friends get together and assemble the best compilation ever of thinking in the social-social media-c...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Designing for Learner Success: First, Do No Harm

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eLearning designers and developers spend a lot of time on assessments, particularly things like quizzes and knowledge checks and tests. I...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Maker Party! Show Your Work

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… so this happened the night of March 4. We were looking for a way to bring our more interesting friends together so hit on this:      ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

What Does Social Learning Look Like? Pokémon GO

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This month's "Nuts & Bolts" column examines social learning as it happens naturally, organically, as people go about the...