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...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Transforming Classroom to Online: What's the Reality?

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“When you’re looking at ‘converting’ classroom training to an online format, try to actually get to the classroom event. Get clear on what ...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Temple Grandin Keynoting Training 2017: San Diego, January 30

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I speak at many conferences and over the years have been lucky to see -- and often meet-- some remarkable presenters. I am thrilled  that Tr...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Positive Deviance in L&D

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A follower who'd attended my "Tips for the Positive Deviant" webinar asked on her Facebook page how ideas around Positive Dev...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Webinars? About That Whiteboard...

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From this month's Nuts & Bolts column : I’ve been working in virtual classrooms since 2003, back when I first met Insync Training’...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Read Up!

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I thought I knew a lot about my field—I’d been there a decade, after all, and was a voracious reader of trade journals and business book...