Allison Rossett

JANUARY 28, 2012

Tweet Sue and I don’t agree about technology and its potential to improve Christmas. Sue: Did you read about Amazon’s patent for an early warning gifting system? If Aunt Hilda gives you a book or device that isn’t on your wish list, Amazon will electronically convert that errant gift into something you have indicated that you prefer– or into a cash certificate.

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 23, 2012

Tweet This morning, on a blog, I ran into the idea that abundant information is one of the drivers of educational reform. Agreed. Harold Jarche is right about that. He then suggests that this abundance, in the hands of children, will turn into open education, effective learning. I wonder about that. For some, sure. For most, not so much. Here is what Frank Nguyen said about it– “The argument that we should let children design their own learning because information is abundant is anal

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 19, 2012

Tweet This is an article about how leader development is changing. The focus is on moving beyond leader development events to lessons, support, guidance and community available in the context of work, which is where leaders serve. Here is the piece, co-authored with Deb Pettry, published in Talent Management: [link].

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 19, 2012

Tweet Published in T&D, this article reports on a study conducted by Allison Rossett and Jim Marshall. Our focus– when people are doing e-learning, what are they doing? What forms does this approach to training take? Our findings surprised. You hear about mobile everything, immersive learning, informal strategies and performance support. But that’s not what workplace learning people reported that they are up to.

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 10, 2012

Tweet Allison blogs on about how enthusiasm about technology just isn’t sufficient. We need analysis, data, and execution. Full post at Human Capital Exchange: https://hcexchange.conference-board.org/blog/post.cfm?post=35.

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 10, 2012

Tweet What stinks about webinars? An article from Chief Learning Officer magazine. This article reports the experiences and lessons of Colleen Cunningham and Antonia Chan, two webinar addicts, now recovering. View full article: [link].

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Allison Rossett

JANUARY 10, 2012

Tweet The new edition of Allison’s classic book, First Things Fast: First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis , 2 nd edition. San Francisco: Pfeiffer/Wiley.

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