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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Inspired by Cammy Bean’s post. Caution : Long post. Is wordy and may be boring at places. But this is the story of my professional life. Life is boring at times. But it is always interesting when you write about life after 10 years. ~~~~~~~~~~ What did I want to be when I grew up?
 
Thursday, December 31, 2009
December’s Big Question at the Learning Circuits blog is “What did you learn about learning in 2009”. This year has been interesting and eventful for me. I have had many new things to learn and some things to unlearn. If I had to identify one key take-away, it would have to
 
Sunday, December 20, 2009
One of the most popular models of training evaluation has been proposed by Donald Kirkpatrick. In simplified terms, as per this model, training can be evaluated at four levels - 1-Reaction, 2- Learning, 3- Behaviour, and 4-Results. Many training evaluation forms and feedback surveys have been designed based on this model.
 

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Transfer of learning is the goal of all training and learning interventions. We know that the often the learning context is different from the context of real-life application. However, the training objective is not achieved until the learning transfers from one to context to another. So, what is it that makes learning 'stick' and allows learners
I read somewhere that "Reflection is a key to improvement as an educator." So often, we have read and spoken about experiential learning, learning-by-doing, task-based learning etc. However, what is it that really converts this experience into learning? For the uninitiated, it is Reflection .
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) - what comes to your mind when I use this term? When I asked this question to some of my colleagues, the answers were plenty....."how how do we work with them?", "Oh...they they don't understand anything!", "some are nice - and some not worth mentioning", "..hmm
December’s Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog is “What I have learned About Learning in 2008?” Well, because I am a learning professional, I give a lot of importance to my personal learning. And owing to my profession, I am fortunate to understand and appreciate the value of learning. I started my learning this year on the perfect note - I wrote my first blog! I think this simple activity brought me closer to most of my learning this year.
Inspired by Cammy Bean’s post. Caution : Long post. Is wordy and may be boring at places. But this is the story of my professional life. Life is boring at times. But it is always interesting when you write about life after 10 years. ~~~~~~~~~~ What did I want to be when I grew up?

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Monday, February 8, 2010
This Wednesday Karl and I will be appearing on Metanomics to discuss Learning in 3D and where we see Virtual Immersive Worlds going over the coming few years. Rob Bloomfield is a fantastic host and I am really looking forward to this. Be sure to get there early…..The
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
Saffron Interactive, one of Europe’s leading e-learning, mobile and blended learning companies, is proud to announce that Stephanie Dedhar has been named Instructional Designer of the Year at the IT Training Awards 2010. The instructional designer category was new for the 2010 awards, which were announced at a gala dinner held at The Dorchester in London on Thursday 4 February.
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
Let’s face it. There’s a wide expanse between the  free, open source LMS systems (Moodle, for example) and expensive, proprietary systems currently available. Despite the appeal of downloading a free application or program, open source systems require someone with programming savvy to make them work — a resource most small associations don’t have. Wouldn’t it be great to find
 

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My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. 1. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace
Continuing on from my first post on Google Wave: “What is Google Wave?” 8221; I’ve been finding and reading (and printing, sorry trees) a fair bit of information. I I can’t keep my mind ordered enough to remember where I’m putting it all, so I’ll put links and choice quotes below; The
Although, according to Gartner's Hype Cycle , Twitter is about to enter the "Trough of Disillusionment", many educators are still trying to come to grips with it, and in particular its use in the classroom.  0160; Here are 10 resources that specifically look at the educational use of Twitter: 25 25