Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Punish the Learner

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For those who've been keeping up with Project Ukulele, I found a nice local group that has a uke playalong meetup every 1st and 3rd Mond...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Making Video More "Social"

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Something new next week, hosted by KZO Innovations : Video used in formal training, or to support informal learning, doesn't have to be ...
Monday, September 02, 2013

The Myth of Best Practices: Update

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In 2009 I wrote a post, "The Myth of Best Practices"   , that described problems with both context and fidelity. Here's a gre...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Be A Learner

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This month's "Nuts and Bolts" column explores the ways an instructional designer can learn from her own learning. In my lin...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

"Show Your Work" Event Today

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I publish a lot, and few things have gotten me more response than last August's Nuts & Bolts column, " Narrating Our Wo...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Are You a Positive Deviant? (Updated June 1)

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Update: I curated some resources for webinar attendees that others may find interesting. Due to the buzz this topic generated we're c...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Want Better Outcomes? Design Assessments First

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New Learning Solutions column this week: “Work backwards. Write the performance goals, decide how you will assess those, and then design t...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

What is "Good" eLearning, Anyway?

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This month in Learning Solutions : "Over the years I’ve seen a lot of lists of criteria for buying eLearning, for developing a produc...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

PowerPoint Converter for 2013

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With the 2 nd edition of Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint (updated for PowerPoint 2013) going to p...
Monday, February 04, 2013

When Social Biz Meets Superbowl

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I spend a lot of my time describing effective use of social media and the need for brands to have a real voice, to show that they are in to...
Saturday, January 05, 2013

Happy New Year

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I t's my habit with each January column to revisit colums from the previous year. Here's a recap of major themes from 2012: 1. Fin...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Content Becomes Its Own Context

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“How much of our training budget goes to things that have nothing to do with ‘learning’? Why does the LMS cost more than the whole L...
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...