Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Metaphors

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" How would different beliefs about learning affect our practice? What is the prevailing belief in your own work culture? In thinking ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Assessing the Value of Online Interactions

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In looking for value in online interactions, try to get past the idea of a magic metric. I can’t tell you that my spending x hours on Linke...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Unlearning

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One of the givens in working with adult learners is the importance of helping them access prior knowledge and building on what they alread...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Narrating Our Work

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"By sharing what we are doing and how we are learning, we distribute the tacit knowledge otherwise so hard to capture; invite feedback ...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

"Selling It": Encouraging Change

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This month's "Nuts and Bolts" column takes on a common problem: sometimes in our enthusiasm we may be creating the very resis...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Blog Book Tour: Karl Kapp's "Gamification of Learning and Instruction"

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Blog book tour stop 3: I was lucky enough to get my hands on an advance copy of Karl Kapp’s new book, “The Gamification of Learning and Inst...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

How Can We Know What We Don't Know?

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Last month's "Nuts and Bolts" column "Buy or Build? and hte decisionmaking folwchart included there, sparked an interesti...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

eLearning: Buy or Build?

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So often I see organizations struggling to develop eLearning in-house when, really, outsourcing would result in  a better product that's...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

What Does Learning Look Like? This.

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3 Birds, One Stone Bird 1: I do lots of workshops on using social media for learning, and I struggle to help participants see the possibil...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

From Traditional ID to ID 2.0

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I have an article in the new issue of ASTD's T+D, "From Traditional Instruction to Instructional Design 2.0". It's excerpt...

Social Learning and Etc.: In Conversation with Jane Hart

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Jane Hart and I got together to talk about social learning, social media, change management, and measuring engagement in online communities....
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Not Everything Requires "Instruction"

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New "Nuts & Bolts" column today: Watch for opportunities to quickly solve a performance problem or encourage use of a new id...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Headed to DevLearn?

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I hope to see you at the eLearning Guild's DevLearn Conference and Expo next week. If you're there, join me Wednesday for a Morning...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

"Nuts and Bolts" for Practitioners

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Many of you likely know that for the past couple of years I've been writing a monthly column, "Nuts & Bolts", for the eLea...

"Social Media for Learning" Report

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I was delighted that the eLearning Guild invited me to write up the results of their ongoing "Social Media for Learning" report. T...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Tool Time: To Each His Own

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In my work I sometimes need to schedule meetings with people, all at once, who live around the globe: New York, LA, Sydney, London. As I am ...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

Join me at eLearn Magazine!

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I have recently taken on a new role as Editor in Chief of eLearn Magazine  and hope you'll be a partner with me on this new journey. He...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Talking is Easy. Do Your Objectives match Your Strategies?

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New "Nuts and Bolts" column today! Do your learning objectives match strategies and outcomes?  “Talking is easy. Presenting bull...
Monday, May 23, 2011

THIS is What Social Learning Looks Like

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Something really interesting happened on Twitter last night. The backstory: There is a regularly scheduled discussion, #blogchat, that happe...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

There's an App -- or Something -- for That

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I remember the day I felt the technology plates shift under my feet. It was maybe 6 years ago: post-Internet, pre-Kindle, and I'd gone i...
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