Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tips for Working with SMEs

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We had a lively discussion in my VILT session today, "Instructional Design for the Real World". Here's a screenshot of the con...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Monty Python gets it.

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To extend last week's post on who owns information, how about this: Monty Python put free videos on YouTube, in better quality than the...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Who Owns Information?

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A 'social learning' theme keeps kicking dust in my direction, first when the TR-DEV Yahoo group folded (see post below from January ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

2009 Top Ten Tools for Learning Professionals

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Each year Jane Hart of the UK's Centre for Learning and Perfomance Technologies invites practitioners to submit their "Top 10 Tools...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Can Your People Pass the Banana Test?

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I'm researching an upcoming live-online session, "Tips for the Positive Deviant" and just ran into this anecdote: During a po...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Wherefore Passion?

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Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work". H...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

State of E-Learning 2009

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Elearn Magazine asked me for 500 words on my views about the current state and future of e-learning. The piece begins: "As the news abo...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

"I'm a Computer Whisperer"

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Well, closing the lid DOES work sometimes...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

E-Learning and the Panopticon

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Bentham developed the idea of the panopticon , a prison design that provided a single central point from which all prisoners/cells/activitie...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Reality or ... Media?

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My January 24 post, "Collapse of a Community of Practice", included an aside about what training practitioners are really doing v....
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sacred Training Cows

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I am just home from Training 2009 where, among other things, I offered sessions on "Better than Bullet Points" and "Instructi...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

The Myth of "Best Practices"

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I get lots of requests for lists of "best practices"...in e-learning, in the virtual classroom, in instructional design, in classr...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Can 'Competencies' be Taught?

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I tend to agree with Marcus Buckingham ( First, Break all the Rules ). Do you? What's been your experience with "competencies"...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Information Skills Needed

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I've been doing a good deal of research/work lately with knowledge management. One of my concerns is that the focus so often seems to be...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Final Version: E-Learning Buzzword Bingo Card

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Here 'tis, with thanks to all those who contributed (see original post and comments). I had more suggestions than spaces (especially lov...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Collapse of a Community of Practice (CoP)

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I have long been a subscriber to, first, the old TR-DEV listserv and its revised format as a moderated Yahoo group. While the site shows 4,0...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

E-Learning Buzzword Bingo Card

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Clark Quinn, Cammy Bean, Steve Sorden and I have been having a Twitter discussion about buzzwords associated with e-learning. The conversati...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Alternatives to Kirkpatrick

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While the Kirkpatrick taxonomy is something of a sacred cow in training circles—and much credit goes to Donald Kirkpatrick for being the fir...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The First Help Desk Call

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"Compared to the scroll, it takes longer to turn the pages of a book." And what about the manual?
Monday, January 05, 2009

Hemorrhaging Money

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I've talked about this before and want to add a new voice to the choir. I get two kinds of calls from people wanting to "do" e...
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