Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Once again, from the Twitter files this past week: Research debunking claim of digital natives vs immigrants via @JoanVinallCox @rdelorenzo @rmazar BitTorrent counters fear, uncertainty and doubt from Canadian Internet Service Providers Michael Geist via @skap5 “Learning happens when a child is interested. Otherwise, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Charles Jennings notes in Who needs learning objectives? (free subscription required) that they’re mostly useful for instructional designers and not of much value on the job or for those taking the training. If you are going to assess the impact of a course on individual participants’ performance in the workplace you need to forget about [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
I usually ignore requests to follow a blog meme, but Virginia Yonkers has tagged me for a reflective post and this is my 1,500th blog post here so I thought it would be appropriate to at least partially respond. Here are the requirements: 4 R’s Meme: Favourite Posts, asks those tagged to select 4 of [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
From my Twitter files this week: via @cammybean: The Agile Elearning Design Manual via @CarlosDiaz Reduce your cost with business 2.0 Blue Kiwi video via @bduperrin You can’t govern what you don’t understand via @Dave_Ferguson Meet Jessica (good demo for people new to social tools) Slideshare via @rossdawson Where do you want to play? Where [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
For Session 4 of today’s LearnTrends event Dave Wilkins, Learn.com, led off on the subject of social learning and the challenge of the concept as opposed to the technologies. Concepts such as wirearchy, the long tail or wisdom of crowds need to be understood and put into our work context before we can really become [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Session 3 (C Level perspective) of the LearnTrends event started with Ann Herrman-Nehdi from the Instructional Systems Association talking about a change in the mindset of learning services with the “app” & “plug-n-play” construct of the Web. The notions of on-demand and small pieces are here to stay, as are social networks and the communication [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Session 2 of the LearnTrends event looked at internal training organization. Gary Wise of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital discussed the PD&R continuum of Prepare – Deploy – Reinforce. The last part is essential in integrating learning into the work context, using performance support tools, coaching, mentoring and contacting experts. Harvesting feedback, like checking to see if [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Finally made it into the Elluminate session for today’s LearnTrends event thanks to D’Arcy Norman’s help with the Mac OS. I made it to the end of Panel 1 on industry perspectives. Tony Karrer asked if there are some new models for selling learning-related products & services online. LiveMocha was given as an example of [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
The future business of Learning (or whatever name we finally settle on) lies in providing organisations with the tools, techniques and environments to support them in building employee capability and performance in an increasing range of areas. It certainly doesn’t lie in the provision of ‘ training’. Traditional training may have a role in the [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Harold Jarche
It seems that Stephen Downes isn’t enamoured with my PKM process: My first thought was, do I do it this way? And, of course, I don’t – my process is much too haphazard to be dignified with the term ‘method’. But then I thought, what does the concept of a ‘method’ here imply? That there [...]
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