Twitter FavesLearning styles are often used as a catch-phrase to say that the training will be suitable for different tastes and abilities. Clark Quinn has one word on learning styles – rubbish. I agree, noting that Will Thalheimer still hasn’t had to pay anyone on his challenge, “I will give $1000 (US dollars) to the first [...]
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Last week was Canada’s National Aboriginal Day and today is the National Day of Action. You could say that we had the traditional conference last week followed by the unconference this week. Chris Corrigan does a lot of work with First Nations and has written a counter post to a recent article in the Globe [...]
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I’m currently working on a project that requires me to get back to some performance and training analysis. Of course, my initial outlook is that training can often be a problem looking for a solution. I had to review the basics and decided to read Rossett & Schaffer’s, Job Aids & Performance Support. This is [...]
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Our little town has been named one of the cultural capitals of Canada, winning $500,000 for the under 50,000 population category. Culture is one of the pillars of our town commons project, along with environment and entrepreneurship. I hope that raising our profile as a town will enable us to secure some more funds for [...]
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I made my comments last week about R/WW’s All you need to know about e-learning 2.0, and the discussion has been picked up by several people in our community, most notably Tony Karrer. A recent comment on R/WW , #24, by Hank Horkoff of ChinesePod, is perhaps the most insightful on the real effects of [...]
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I’ve been looking at some training documentation and it seems that when we get into complicated (not complex) cases of lots of stuff to examine, we miss the forest for the trees. Dave sums it all up quite nicely: Even if the client’s model of training involves only lectures and PowerPoint, “What do you want [...]
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A model I’ve used several times is Marilyn Taylor’s learning cycle. Her work is not widely published but there is a reference in this PDF from NALD (see page 53). You can also read about the model in Making Sense of Adult Learning. Taylor observed university students in classrooms, and saw a pattern of Disorientation, [...]
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Stephen noted this study on Higher Education Facts and Fiction by Prof. Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University. Inside Higher Ed provides an overview of the report and some of the controversy around statements that higher education may not be such a boon to the economy: Looking at all 50 states over [...]
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Fredericton, with a much smaller population, has had free WiFi since 2004 and now Moncton, NB, finally has a “pilot project” for free wireless access downtown. It’s about time that Moncton entered the 21st century.
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Read/Write Web (an excellent source of information on all web 2.0 tools) has its latest piece on e-learning, with e-Learning 2.0: All You Need to Know. One thing I like about these articles is that they don’t come from the e-learning profession, so they really represent client or learner opinions. The article itself covers a [...]
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